Washington, DC - New York City Transit Agencies To Get A $10M Security Boost

Washington, DC - The Bush administration is boosting anti-terror funding to New York-area transit systems by about $10 million this year, after being criticized for recently slashing city Homeland Funding Security money by $83 million.
The transit funding will rise from $37.5 million last year to $47 million this year, a 25 percent increase, "It's positive news, considering we went down 40 percent in the last month," said House Homeland Security chairman Peter King (R-Seaford), who has lobbied the administration for more funding. "It's a small step in the right direction."

City and state officials have urged Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff to help offset New York's losses by increasing funding in other programs.