No Train to Rockaways for 4 Months? Cuomo, Eyeing Mayor’s Race, Objects.
The New York Times
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who is eyeing a potential run for New York City mayor next year, criticized plans to close part of the A train in the Rockaways for months.
When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently announced its decision to shut down part of the A subway line for extensive repairs, the decision upset many of the 9,000 riders who take the route each day.
But it turns out there’s another dissatisfied New Yorker: former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Transit officials had announced that part of the A train line in the Rockaways would be closed for four months, starting in January, to make repairs to a bridge that was damaged during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Mr. Cuomo was skeptical. In a widely distributed email, he argued that there had to be another way, comparing the situation with a similar planned shutdown of the L train to Brooklyn in 2019.
“Don’t take the bureaucracy’s word for it,” Mr. Cuomo said in the statement released on Sunday. “Convene the best experts and find a better way to get it done. Leadership matters.”
Mr. Cuomo, of course, has his reasons to weigh in.
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