Just days after a metro train derailment in Harlem, which affected the services. Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced that he will be signing an executive order to put the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on a state of emergency.

The announcement on the same day commuters dealt with delays at Penn Station and Gran Central Terminal all day.

The Long Island Rail Road said 12 tracks were affected by Amtrak power problems Thursday. Service was on or close to schedule by the late night.

“Thank God I don’t have to do this every day, because I feel for those people that do,” said Nick DeFilippis of Smithtown.

Delays and cancellations bookend his day, both heading out and heading into Penn Station.

“I had a meeting this morning which I ended up missing,” DeFilippis said.

The governor has also had enough. He made his announcement Thursday at the Genius Transit Challenge Conference, an international competition with a $1 million prize to come up with solutions to improve the transit system’s reliability. He swooped into Manhattan from Albany on a helicopter for the occasion.

Cuomo said the state of emergency will allow the agency to expedite funding and repairs to what he described as a rapidly decaying and dysfunctional system.

“One of the processes we’re going to expedite is the MTA procurement process. I’ll ask the comptroller and the attorney general for a special team to expedite the process,” he said. “But it will no longer be a tortured exercise to do business with the MTA.”

While he said issues with the transit system have been going on for years, Cuomo said its “current state of decline is wholly unacceptable.”

“The delays are maddening New Yorkers,” he said. “We need ideas outside the box because, frankly, the box is broken.”

In addition, the governor said New York state will commit another $1 billion to the MTA Capital Plan“so the MTA has the resources they need to get it done.”

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