Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: The governor’s comments came days after the derailment, an accident in Harlem that subway officials blamed on the failure to secure equipment during track repairs. Riders on a southbound A train had feared they would die after the train struck a tunnel wall and began to fill with smoke. 
  
 The number of subway delays has skyrocketed, and several recent disruptions snarled service across the city, exacting an economic and mental toll on many residents. Transit activists have urged riders to send their complaints to Mr. Cuomo, since he controls the authority. 
  
 It turns out that the governor has been listening. The riders, Mr. Cuomo said on Thursday, “they tweet nasty things about me all day.” 
  
 Mayor Bill de Blasio has quarreled with Mr. Cuomo over who should be held responsible for the subway’s dismal condition. But he praised the decision to hire Mr. Lhota, who helped bring the subway back after Hurricane Sandy during his previous tenure as chairman — and whom Mr. de Blasio defeated in the 2013 election. A spokesman for the mayor, Ben Sarle, said on Thursday that New Yorkers deserved a transit system that worked. 
  
 “We are heartened to see these new resources and focus to reverse the deteriorating state of our subways,” Mr. Sarle said in a statement. 
  
 After facing criticism over choosing chauffeured rides over the subway, Mr. de Blasio has recently tried to display empathy for suffering riders. On Thursday, Mr. de Blasio took the subway from Madison Square Garden to City Hall, and his spokesman posted a photo of the mayor’s trip on Twitter to make sure it did not go unnoticed. 
  
 Mr. Cuomo’s executive order would allow the authority to accelerate efforts to improve service by temporarily suspending certain laws that might “hinder or delay action necessary to cope with the disaster.” Mr. Cuomo said the authority would need more resources to improve the system and called on state lawmakers to identify new funding sources. ||||| Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to push for a tax on wealthy New Yorkers to pay for improvements needed to address the crisis engulfing New York City’s subway, city officials said on Sunday. 
  
 The proposal is the latest move in the battle between Mr. de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over who bears responsibility for repairing the deteriorating transit system. The plan would also pay for half-price MetroCards for low-income riders — part of a national movement that has gained momentum in New York. 
  
 Mr. de Blasio will announce a so-called millionaires tax on Monday for wealthy New York City residents to pay for subway and bus upgrades and for reduced fares for more riders, an idea that has been successful in Seattle. 
  
 His funding push comes as the subway faces a multitude of problems, and leaders at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, have called on Mr. de Blasio to provide more money for the system. ||||| “I’ve wanted to have a move to put it under the mayor’s control,” said Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president who has fumed over the subway chaos. “Because it is in the city, we should have someone who is directly responsible.” 
  
 That outcome is highly unlikely to be suggested by City Hall or Albany, both of which benefit from the current state of affairs: The mayor can plausibly pass the buck; and the governor remains at a safe political remove. The city once ran the subway, but the state took over the struggling system in 1968 in a power grab blessed by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. 
  
 Neither Mr. Cuomo nor Mr. de Blasio has shown any desire to work together on even simple issues — like whether a rogue deer in Harlem should have been euthanized — let alone on the most nettlesome problems plaguing the city’s most important public resource. 
  
 Frustrated commuters are left to wonder why Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio are not addressing their pain. It offers a stark contrast to how they respond when the news is good. In the days before the opening of the Second Avenue subway, Mr. Cuomo sent out a blizzard of news releases and regularly appeared before cameras to herald the line as an example of the big things government can do. 
  
 Mr. de Blasio was happy to bask in the spotlight when a new subway station opened nearly two years ago on the Far West Side of Manhattan — this one paid for by the city. The mayor has also held a series of events leading up to the recent launch of new ferry service, smiling broadly as he steered one of the new vessels. 
  
 Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Mr. Cuomo had helped to secure the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s largest capital improvement plan after years of underinvestment. (The de Blasio administration also pointed to its $2.5 billion commitment to the capital plan.) ||||| FILE - In this June 21, 2017 file photo, a subway train approaches the platform at Brooklyn's Smith Street above-ground subway station, in New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to tax the wealthiest 1 percent of New Yorkers to fund repairs and improvements to the beleaguered subway system. The proposal comes as the mayor and Gov. Andrew Cuomo continue to squabble over who is responsible for paying for repairs to the nation's largest system. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File) 
  
 NEW YORK (AP) — The mayor of New York City wants to tax the wealthiest 1 percent to fund repairs and improvements to the beleaguered subway system. 
  
 The proposal comes as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, continue to squabble over responsibility for paying for repairs to the nation’s largest transit system that has seen growing delays, mechanical failures, power outages and even derailments. 
  
 Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota recently unveiled an emergency plan to stabilize the system. The governor offered to split the cost of the plan with the city, but the mayor refused to commit money to support it. 
  
 The mayor’s tax plan is meant as a long-term solution, not a quick fix, he said. It aims to generate nearly $800 million annually with the bulk of the money going toward capital upgrades to subways and buses, and must be approved by state lawmakers. A formal announcement was expected Monday. 
  
 “Instead of searching for a quick-fix that doesn’t exist, or simply forking over more and more of our tax dollars every year, we have come up with a fair way to finance immediate and long-term transit improvement,” de Blasio said in a statement Sunday. 
  
 The tax would increase the top income tax rate from about 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent for married couples who make more than $1 million and individuals making more than $500,000, city officials said. It would affect about 32,000 of New Yorkers filing taxes in the city, or just less than 1 percent, officials said. 
  
 “Rather than sending the bill to working families and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra,” de Blasio said. 
  
 New Yorkers already contribute to the agency through other taxes and fees. De Blasio’s plan also includes funding to offer half-price fare cards for low-income riders. 
  
 The Rider’s Alliance said the push to help low-income riders “has never been so urgent.” 
  
 “It’s time to end a system where low-income New Yorkers have to skip meals, beg for swipes or even jump turnstiles in order to get to work or school,” executive director John Raskin said in a statement. 
  
 The current five-year transit system capital plan, which covers upkeep for the subways, the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North, plus other pieces of the transit system, is about $29 billion. The city has pledged $2.5 billion and the state $8.3 billion, plus Cuomo recently pledged an additional $1 billion. 
  
 But that doesn’t include money for immediate repairs. Lhota, who proposed an $836 million emergency plan, said in a statement Sunday that the agency needs additional short-term funding now. 
  
 “There’s no question we need a long-term funding stream, but emergency train repairs can’t wait on what the state legislature may or may not do next year,” Lhota said. 
  
 Cuomo echoed the sentiment, calling on the mayor to fund the emergency plan. 
  
 “Riders suffer every day and delaying repairs for at least a year is neither responsible nor responsive to the immediate problem, or riders’ pain,” he said in a statement. 
  
 The number of subway delays has tripled in the past five years, to 70,000 per month, and rush hour cancellations and delays on the Long Island Rail Road were at the highest level in 10 years, according to a June report. 
  
 About 5.7 million people ride the subway on an average weekday. 
  
 The finger-pointing by city and state officials is due in part to the transit agency’s messy ownership structure. According to Lhota, 1981 law was meant to help the city during a major financial crisis, when it could not pay capital costs and the subways were in much worse shape than they are now. The state picked up the tab, but it was never meant to be permanent, he said. |||||
Output:
A little over a month after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the New York City subway, his longtime nemesis in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is proposing a new tax on wealthy New Yorkers to help fix the ailing system. On Monday, de Blasio will announce what the New York Times refers to as a "millionaires tax" to help repair the deteriorating system, which is plagued by delays, mechanical issues, and even derailments, the AP reports. The tax would also subsidize reduced fares for low-income riders. The tax would bump the top income rate from 3.9% to 4.4% for couples who make more than $1 million per year and individuals who make more than $500,000. It would affect just under 1% of people filing taxes in the city. The new tax proposal could be a hard sell for de Blasio, the Times notes. Cuomo and de Blasio are both under immense pressure to fix the city's aging system, and the two men, who have had an acrimonious relationship since de Blasio took office in 2013, have fought over financing the subway system. The Metropolitan Transit Authority is run by the state, not the city. Since the tax would require approval from the New York State Legislature, de Blasio would likely need Cuomo's help to gain approval from the Republican-controlled Senate. In May the New York Times reported that delays in the subway system had risen to 70,000 per month from about 28,000 in 2012.