At a Monday campaign stop near White Plains, all-but-declared candidate for NY's open U.S. Senate seat Hillary Clinton said the suburbs needed more transit, cited NY's one-third share of the country's transit riders and said that as Senator, she would fight for a greater share of federal transit funds for New York. She also discussed uniting downstate's need for transit with upstate's transit vehicle and equipment manufacturing industry as a win-win environmental and economic strategy for the state.

One of Clinton's introducers was Marian Rose of the Sierra Club and Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition. Rose blasted highway expansion strategies as self-defeating and called on the state administration to abandon the project to widen Route 120 along Westchester's Kensico Reservoir.