Brooklyn officials, transit advocates slam diversion of $30M From MTA
Brooklyn officials were in the vanguard yesterday of protests against Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s diversion of $30 million in tax-revenue funds meant for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and transferring the money elsewhere within the state bureaucracy.
MTA spokesman Sal Arena told the Eagle that “this was tax revenue in excess of the MTA budget, and it is the purview of the governor or legislature to use it for something else. That’s what happened with the $30 million.”