| Issue 154 | December 12, 1997 |
Paying for Hudson Valley Transit
When Governor Pataki cancelled the Cross-Westchester Expressway (I-287) HOV lane project, he established a task force to develop other transportation options in the travel corridor. An early job for the task force may be to figure out how to sustain bus service recently established in the Hudson Valley. New bus routes underwritten by Westchester, Orange, Dutchess and Rockland Counties have been funded primarily with federal transportation/air quality funds, which can only be used for operating costs for three years. Some routes are also funded out of the I-287 construction budget. Capital funding is relatively plentiful, but state operating dollars are not.
