Not only has the MTA abandoned a full review of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's L-train project, they now deny ever planning one. Documents, however, tell a different story.
Not only will Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s last-minute plan to rehabilitate the L Train go through without an independent assessment of its merits, but Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials now claim they never intended to perform such an evaluation in the first place.
Rather than outright deny the MTA originally intended to pursue a full-scale review of the new Cuomo plan — something supported by documents acquired by POLITICO — MTA officials are offering a subtly different defense: that they never intended for a consultant to compare the first plan with the second one.
Then in January, just four months before the project’s April 27 start date, Cuomo, who purports not to control the MTA, abruptly decided the authority was doing the L train repairs wrong. The consultant would provide “an independent evaluation of the engineering and technical aspects of the new design.” The memo included phrases like, “Address the feasibility and optimum configurations of installing cables and racking systems along the inside of the tunnel walls,” one of the key components of Cuomo’s plan.
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