PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -
The head of New York City's Mass Transit Authority visited the Bombardier Factory in Plattsburgh Wednesday.
The rail car company has made more than 2-thousand subway cars for New York City and Long Island over the past 25 years. Just this summer, it won a 600-million dollar contract to build 300 more.
"Unlike any other subway system in the country, they run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. So how they're made, the strength in which they're made is critical to us, and they do a great job here," said MTA's Joe Lhota
The latest MTA contract, one of three won by Bombardier this summer, will help keep the plant's 4-hundred employees on the job through the end of the decade. The company says the contracts, worth up to 2-billion dollars, may also help create up to 100 more jobs at the plant. Just last week Governor Cuomo toured Bombardier to tout how state money awarded to the regional economic development council is helping the plant expand and land more contracts.
