Mayor Bill de Blasio has rejected Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plea for the city to fund half of the $836 million Subway Action Plan, but City Council Speaker Corey Johnson is willing to consider it, with a few conditions.

At a preliminary budget hearing held by the council's Transportation Committee Thursday, Johnson said subway riders "just want goddamn results."

"That's all they want," he told MTA Chairman Joe Lhota and Managing Director Ronnie Hakim. "People want subways that work for them."

Johnson said he would consider putting money for the action plan into the city's 2018-19 budget, but only if he got assurances the money would go into a "lock box, one without a key" so it'd only be use for the subways and no other part of the MTA. He also stipulated that whatever the city contributed it would be a one-time contribution. Anything else would be a "slippery slope" he said.

Lhota testified that his repairs are showing results and having an impact, with fewer delays and improved wait times, although he admitted riders may not be feeling a difference just yet. He said if the city doesn't fund the improvements, they would not be completed as envisioned.

Johnson asked whether city officials would be able to change parts in the plan of they funded half of it. Lhota said he was willing to discuss that possibility.

"I'm always willing to sit down and talk to the city and my job is to convince them that the plan we put together is the right approach," Lhota said at the hearing. "There may be disagreement and we'll find a way, as I always have with the city, to find a way to compromise."

Asked afterward if the MTA convinced Johnson to throw his full support behind funding the subway plan, Johnson demurred.

"We will continue talks with both Gov. Cuomo, the state legislature and the de Blasio administration," he wrote in a statement. "Our budget process is just beginning, and the council is committed to finding the best path forward and improving the system." 

Any plan would need the mayor's approval.