New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) is putting together an impressive record of public works and infrastructure. With that comes an unsettlingly arbitrary display of personal political muscle through his influence on state agencies and on key multistate transportation authorities. In his second term in office, Cuomo also has proven himself to be a capable if not infallible manager of his public image as an effective builder. So it is fairly obvious that he and Patrick Foye—whom the governor nominated for elevation from president to chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority—are amplifying that image. They are doing so by portraying themselves as taking on the agency’s consulting advisors and engineers—yes, the engineers—and seeking a 10% fee reduction. Cuomo referred to MTA as a “bureaucracy culture on steroids” and a “transportation industrial complex.” Foye, the Cuomo-appointed former executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, talked of giving a good licking to poorly performing “billion-dollar capitalization publicly traded” engineering companies.

在未来几年中，MTA必须通过曼哈顿和布鲁克林之间的L火车地铁隧道的备受关注的康复措施，进行令人震惊的积压。Cuomo在1月份取消了一项MTA计划，该计划将不久就开始工作，攻击工程学教授的替代方案，避免了为期一年的隧道关闭。至于大型，公开交易的工程师，Foye一般而言责怪WSP在计划原始L火车康复方面的想象力失败，但该公司仍被窃听以支持学者的替代者。迄今为止，WSP是迄今为止最痛苦的工程顾问，失去了一份单独的100亿美元多年无限期合同。

The governor recognizes MTA’s challenge to make system upgrades as it copes with a gaping operating deficit. He successfully pushed for congestion pricing for drivers entering Manhattan—a plan legislators approved in early spring—to reduce the shortfall and, with Foye, also moved to centralize MTA project management, require design-build for big projects and seek debarment for contractors whose jobs go more than 10% over budget or schedule.

Cuomo seems to want to redraw the rules of fair business. That raises our concern not only about fee cuts, but also about debarment manipulation with possible political overtones. That punishment should only apply to large inflated claims, not owner-triggered scope expansion or acceleration.

2019年纽约公共工程是一个复杂的口号。州长的角色和影响力对国家和他的未来野心至关重要。但是，针对工程师的目标是不可想象的，唐纳德·J·特朗普总统的民粹主义的sm弹。它不应该再走了。