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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF COUNCIL MEMBER YDANIS RODRIGUEZ
CITY HALL
NEW YORK, NY 10007
(212) 788-7053
Thursday, October 4, 2018
***Press Release***
Contact: Maria Henderson | 646.574.7950 | MHenderson@council.nyc.gov
COUNCIL MEMBER RODRIGUEZ MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER THAT WE NEED TO FIX OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
Riders Respond Transit Tour Concludes, Survey Results To Be Released and Transportation Committee Hearing Set for October
New York, NY - Today, Council Member Rodriguez received the hospitality of many elected officials representing Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Over the course of two days traveling across all five boroughs and hundreds of surveys conducted, the 2018 Riders Respond Transit Tour has concluded. The survey results will be presented and discussed at an upcoming Council Transportation Committee meeting later this month.
"Spending two days listening to riders and their frustrations, I heard the need from riders to have their concerns receive some action. I'm determined to find attainable solutions to fixing our tattered subway system. All residents across the City depend on having public transit that's safe, on-time, reliable, and clean. I look forward to analyzing the survey results at the upcoming Transportation Committee hearing," said Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Chair of the Committee on Transportation.
"The crisis facing the MTA can be traced to a basic error: Government didn't listen to riders. A first-class city demands a first-class mass transit system, and that demands first-class attention to commuters. I was proud to be part of the Riders Respond Transit Tour with local elected officials and transit advocates to survey straphangers in Downtown Brooklyn. When we bother to ask the right questions of tax-paying riders, we hear the answers that will dig our subway system out of this mess," said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
"Today, I was proud to join Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and fellow elected officials on the
24 Hour Transit Tour
," said Council Member Antonio Reynoso. "Speaking with local residents at the Metropolitan Avenue Station, located in my district, served as proof of what we already know-New Yorkers are fed up with the dysfunctionality of our City's Subway system. We are at the breaking point; it is time that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo work together to step up and fully fund the MTA."
"We applaud Chairman Rodriguez' commitment to the millions of New Yorkers who rely on public transit every day," said
Marco Conner, deputy director, Transportation Alternatives
. "As a city we deserve world class bus and subway systems. Instead, we are saddled with a dilapidated and under-funded transit system that is a worsening burden for us all, and which pushes more people to single-occupancy cars which pose a danger to all road users. Chairman Rodriguez' transit tour helps bridge the gap between the New Yorkers who use our public transit system and those who decide it's fate in Albany. Our state government must step up and act to ensure that congestion pricing, which would create fair and sustainable transit funding, is included in next year's' budget as the foundation of our city's next-generation trains and buses."
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