It should be a model for future transportation grant programs.
The Republican budget bill also called for cutting a type of popular transportation grant.
About 80percentt of the project's costs comes from federal sources, including a $142 million transportation grant specifically for the project, plus another $25.3 million in regular federal transportation funds.
Of the $15.7 million cost, $15 million was allocated by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from city funds, $400,000 was allocated by City Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer, who represents the Upper West Side, and $300,000 came from a federal transportation grant administered by the state.
Prisoners are in no hurry to get to another cell, and since the almost entirely hypothetical dangers of transportation grant guards "hazard pay"—which I've overheard amounts to one and a half times the regular rate they take their sweet time as well.
It managed to get a few policies, like a transportation grant, implemented, but Lupo said the small changes were "piecemeal tokens" that "didn't even come close to tackling this deeply embedded problem that the community had with education and racial inequality".
