When Gov. Kathy Hochul made the eleventh-hour decision on June 5 to shelve congestion pricing, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was forced to suspend $16.5 billion in previously-announced upgrades and projects. Those investments would have included replacing the over 80-year-old train signals on the notoriously slow A/C line in Brooklyn and installing elevators at the Nostrand Avenue subway station in Bedford-Stuyvesant. On Wednesday, state Senator Jabari Brisport (D-Brooklyn), Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest (D-Brooklyn) and Brooklyn Council Member Chi Ossé joined transit activists from Riders Alliance to protest. Click here to read more on brooklynpaper.com.
