Teachout: Cuomo thinks small on infrastructure

Dana Rubinstein

Zephyr Teachout, the memorably named Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean aide who’s attempting to mount a primary challenge to Andrew Cuomo, thinks the governor is bad for transit.

“He uses the M.T.A. as an A.T.M.,” she told Capital in a phone interview Tuesday, referring to the governor’s diversions of M.T.A.-dedicated money for other purposes. “Another disaster or, for that matter, economic slowdown and the M.T.A. would be in real trouble.”

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which the governor controls, runs the city’s subways and buses, several of its bridges and tunnels, and the Metro-North and Long Island railroads.

The M.T.A. has had a rough decade.


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