MTA To Roll Out More High-Tech Trains
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Despite repeated warnings of financial doom, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it is going ahead with a billion-dollar plan to add hundreds of new subway cars to the system.
The New York Post says the agency is promising to keep rolling out new high-tech trains like the ones seen on the L, N and Q lines.
MTA officials said yesterday they are still planning on spending nearly a billion dollars on 382 new cars. This is part of an overall $3.2 billion contract for more than 1,600 cars.
Eighty percent of the money is coming from the federal government.
The MTA has forecasted a $1.2 billion budget deficit for next year.