The MTA has bit off more than we can afford and doesn’t need my bridges. It needs to scale back its plans and restrict its programs to projects that NYC can afford.

Since it doesn’t come under anyones jurisdiction, it won’t do that. Instead to uses the agency for pork barrel politics around the region and picks on the weakest hand in its grip, the outer boroughs of NYC, to exploit for its own unneeded agenda.

It doesn’t need a 15.2 billion dollar east side access program for the LIRR. Scratch that off the list, and the Fulton Street program and the pork west side extension that was traded for a westside stadium project, and the MTA has a surplus.

So they are lying to us. Plane and simple.