Comments on: NYSDOT Seeks Long Island Input on New Capital Program http://blog.tstc.org/2009/08/24/nysdot-seeks-long-island-input-on-new-capital-program/ News and opinion from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:36:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: JC http://blog.tstc.org/2009/08/24/nysdot-seeks-long-island-input-on-new-capital-program/comment-page-1/#comment-1511 JC Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:27:32 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=6266#comment-1511 Clarification re: "The current Capital Program, available here, was supposed to run through 2014." Actually, the current capital plan is for 2005-2010. As the NYSDOT page linked in the post notes, the 2009-2014 capital plan was prepared "early" at the request of the Legislature ("pursuant to Chapter 384 of the New York State Laws of 2007"). The idea was that since Mayor Bloomberg had proposed that congestion pricing revenues be committed to regional transportation infrastructure improvements, some legislators wanted to have some idea of what that money was going to buy. Thus both NYSDOT and MTA were required to submit new capital programs by March 2008. Clarification re: “The current Capital Program, available here, was supposed to run through 2014.”

Actually, the current capital plan is for 2005-2010. As the NYSDOT page linked in the post notes, the 2009-2014 capital plan was prepared “early” at the request of the Legislature (“pursuant to Chapter 384 of the New York State Laws of 2007″). The idea was that since Mayor Bloomberg had proposed that congestion pricing revenues be committed to regional transportation infrastructure improvements, some legislators wanted to have some idea of what that money was going to buy. Thus both NYSDOT and MTA were required to submit new capital programs by March 2008.

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