rockefeller
School bonds bill passes in Albany
- Tax-exempt bonds allowed for apartment or office construction above schools
- Part of Board of Education's 10 year, $1.5bil construction program
- Created a NYC educational construction fund to float the bonds
- Debt to be unlimited and outside the city's debt limit
- Source: "Major Bills in Legislature," The New York Times, July 6, 1966. link
- Source: Sydney H. Schanberg, "ALBANY GETS BILL FOR SCHOOL BONDS," The New York Times, June 2, 1966. link
- Source: Douglas Robinson, "School-Apartment Bill Wins Approval," The New York Times, July 6, 1966. link
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Rockfeller proposes what would become MTA
- MCTA had been formed in 1965 to buy and operate Long Island Rail Road
- Ronan was MCTA chair
- Rockefeller's plan would be designed to avoid legal questions about rights of Triborough bondholders
- Source: "Rockefller Seeks Regional Agency to Direct Transit," The New York Times, June 3, 1966. link
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Rockefeller proposes state take over Harlem and Hudson lines
- Rockefeller also announced modernization plans, pending legislative approval of the bond authority
- not sure what bond authority is here
- Purchase of 80 new Penn Central cars finances with $21mil in bonds through New York State Commuter Car Program
- NYS CCP administered by Port Authority, which was then still called the Port of New York Authority
- Port Authority would buy cars and lease them to the state
- Rest of modernization financed by $44mil in bonds from State Transportation Bond Fund
- Ronan said Penn Central would manage the line under MTA's direction, and MTA would pay them for maintenance and oprating costs, which would be paid out of operating revenue
- Plans for take-over started with state transit master plan in 1968
- Source: Bill Kovach, "STATE TO ACQUIRE 2 COMMUTER RUNS," The New York Times, April 17, 1970. link
- Tags: metro-north penn-central rockefeller ronan