Kathy Hochul: “We've invested billions of dollars [in the MTA].”

“I took a different approach. I said, let's invest more. Let's create more reliability, let's have a higher level of service, and those results have borne out. We've invested billions of dollars [in the MTA]. and I need those investments to hold and not be diminished. And as a result, ridership has surged back nearly all the way back to the pre pandemic levels, which is an extraordinary result.” (24:51–24:53)

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