PACB Fails To Vote On Moynihan Station

NEW YORK CITY-Today the New York State Public Authority Control Board met in a special session to vote on the Moynihan Station project, but voting was delayed for the third time. GlobeSt.com has learned that the assembly representative failed to show up for the meeting, so the board did not have the necessary quorum to hold a vote. The governor’s office hope the project will be on the agenda at this Wednesday’s meeting, according to a representative.

As GlobeSt.com reported earlier, Gov. George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a press conference Thursday called for the approval of the plan, lauding its expected benefits for the city.

“The Moynihan Station project is one of the more important transportation projects in the country,” Pataki says, according to the press release issued after the event. “New York commuters are in desperate need of a redesigned and updated transit center… .”