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NYC Mayor de Blasio Readies "Millionaires Tax" To Fix Subway

NYC Mayor de Blasio Readies "Millionaires Tax" To Fix Subway

The New York City's transportation system is in trouble. Delays have skyrocketed on the century-old subway system, and several recent accidents have raised safety concerns. Joseph J. Lhota, chairman of The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has called upon the mayor to provide more money to fix the system, recently outlining a roughly $800 million emergency rescue plan with a sweeping set of fixes that he vowed would turn around steadily deteriorating service.