Rockland County Executive Ed Day is reported to be in good spirits as he recuperates from hip replacement surgery.
“His prognosis for a full recovery is excellent and he will continue his official duties without interruption on a temporarily reduced schedule,” Day’s office said in a statement.
Day’s hip replacement surgery took place at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. Day, a resident of Haverstraw, was elected Rockland County Executive in 2013. He had a career with the New York City Police Department, from which he retired in 2000. Day was born in 1951.
As he was recovering this past Tuesday, Day sent a letter to the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority urging it to exempt Rockland County residents from the congestion pricing tolls that had been proposed by the MTA’s Traffic Mobility Review Board. Day noted that the MTA expects to raise $1 billion a year from congestion pricing tolls is supposed to be dedicated to capital projects.
“There is nothing in MTA’s current Capital Plan that indicates any investment will be made to expand transit availability from Rockland County,” Day said. “There has been nothing in any recent previous capital plan, and there is nothing in the MTA’s 20-year Needs Assessment that indicates this type of investment will be made.”
The MTA’s Board of Directors yesterday voted to continue moving ahead with the congestion pricing program and said it planned to hold public hearings before taking a final vote early next year that would put the tolls into effect in late spring or early summer.
