Issue Position: Transportation

Issue Position

Nicole has been a leading advocate for improved public transportation on Staten Island and in South Brooklyn. She successfully fought to restore local bus service, including continuous x1 express service and the restoration of B37 and S93 and weekend service on S76 and X27, and she has been a leader in the effort to upgrade MTA subway signals to Communication Based Train Control to ease overcrowding and end service delays. Nicole sued the Port Authority to require the transparency that led to a multi-trip discount on the Port Authority's three Staten Island bridges and also waged the public fight to get Governor Cuomo to reduce the Verrazzano Bridge discount for Staten Island

In Congress, Nicole will work to secure New York's fair share of federal mass transit funding. Currently, New York only receives 16% of federal mass transit funding, while we have over 30% of total national ridership. These resources would help expand service, ease traffic congestion and improve the system's state of good repair, which is largely responsible for the 70,000 subway delays each month. Unlike Max Rose, Nicole would ensure any attempt to implement two-way tolling on the Verrazzano Bridge results in the surplus being used to lower the toll for Brooklynites and Staten Islanders, not go to the MTA bottomless money pit.

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