Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Could Bring Aging Northeast Rail Into The Modern Era
arrow The aging Hudson River train tunnel connecting Penn Station with New Jersey GOVERNOR CUOMO S OFFICE
President Biden’s sweeping and costly infrastructure plan, which calls for $621 billion in transit spending alone over eight years, includes funding that could, if fully realized, modernize mass transit in the northeast for decades to come.
The ambitious proposal, known as the The American Jobs Plan, is a $2 trillion spending plan that includes everything from ensuring the entire country has broadband, to replacing every lead drinking water pipe in the country, to making the northeast’s rail network as fast and reliable as ones in Europe and Asia.
Riverhead Supervisor Yvette Aguiar at event earlier this month.
Riverhead Town will receive $3,671,320 in federal stimulus funds over 2021 and 2022, according to Supervisor Yvette Aguiar.
The funding comes from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which was adopted by both houses of Congress March 10 and approved by President Joe Biden the following day.
Suffolk County received $286 million in American Rescue Plan funding, and New York State secured $12.6 billion in direct state fiscal relief, said Ms. Aguiar, who thanked U.S. senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
The money was allocated based on 2019 census population estimates.
Ms. Aguiar said in a press release that she has put together a committee composed of financial administrator Bill Rothaar, community development director Dawn Thomas and deputy town attorney Annemarie Prudenti to advise the Town Board on how to utilize the two-year allocation most effectively to benefit the opera
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Dear Governor Cuomo:
Considering the shocking new report revealing you and your administration drastically undercounted nursing home deaths in New York state, we write to request your full and immediate response to our previous questions. To date, you and New York State Attorney General Letitia James have failed to respond to requests posed in three separate letters. The report released today establishes that you ordered COVID-19 positive patients back into nursing homes, this order caused infections and fatalities, and you took concerted efforts to cover it up.
Today, Attorney General James issued a report entitled “Nursing Home Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Among other things, this report concluded that the Cuomo Administration undercounted the total number of “resident deaths associated with nursing homes in New York…by approximately 50 percent.” This report requires your immediate attention and a full and immediate response to the numerous inquiries made by the
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