It certainly appears that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to avert a shutdown of the L train between Brooklyn and Manhattan is not slowing down — that's even if the MTA's board doesn't approve the plan.

It started Thursday evening when the MTA sent out an email. The headline: "MTA Update for L Train Riders" The letter said a total shutdown of both L train tunnels in April won't be necessary, and that a new construction schedule for the alternative plan — which Cuomo pushed — will come out in a few weeks.

On Friday, it was clear this update created some confusion. Would the MTA Board still vote on the new L train plan?

"I think that's a good question and clearly one that board members and those that are interested in what the MTA is doing are asking right now, and it's a question I was trying to get clarification on at the emergency meeting earlier this week, and I don't know if I have a clear answer," said City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, who is also an MTA Board member.

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Well, a source at the MTA told NY1 that the MTA Board was no longer expected to have to approve the new L train plan.

You might say it could be rail-roaded through.

Just two days before, the same MTA Board held an emergency meeting to discuss the new plan. And at the time, Acting Chairman Fernando Ferrer, who Cuomo appointed, gave the impression that the board would get its say.

"If we have to consider an amendment to a contract or any other action, at the appropriate moment that will be brought before us and all the facts will be aired out and we will vote yes or no," Ferrer said Tuesday.

NY1 asked the governor on Friday. He claimed ignorance.

"I believe the status is the MTA has accepted the new design plan, which will not require a closure, and that — but I don't know how the board works to that level. So you would have to talk to them," Cuomo said in a conference call with reporters.

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This comes at a time when Cuomo is lobbying for more control of the transportation agency, claiming he does not have full power over it now.

Still, some clearly see the governor's fingerprints all over this latest development.

"I think it's clearly the governor's decision," Trottenberg said.

Just two weeks ago, it was Cuomo who requested an emergency meeting of the MTA Board so his new L train plan could move forward.

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