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New York Metropolis Transit President Andy Byford. (Photograph by Mark Hallum) Welcome residence, “Train Daddy!” Andy Byford, the previous MTA New York Metropolis Transit boss, has been appointed as particular advisor to the Amtrak Board of Administrators for the Trump administration’s redevelopment of Penn Station, US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy introduced Tuesday. Recognized to some New Yorkers because the “Train Daddy” for bettering MTA service throughout his time period as NYC Transit President, Byford will report on to Amtrak administrators and can work with the USDOT as he “oversees the Penn Station project through a master developer public-private partnership,”…

Supporters of congestion pricing received one other extension Tuesday — and this time they received a federal decide to order the Trump administration to cease threatening New York.  Choose Lewis Liman, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in his first time period, issued a brief restraining order via June 9. He stated for the subsequent two weeks, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and different high officers are “….enjoined from withholding federal funds” from New York over its site visitors plan. The MTA is banking on income from congestion pricing to pay for billions of {dollars} in subway and bus…