Riders aren’t returning to New York City’s subways in enough numbers to blunt a worsening cash crisis, forcing administrators to acknowledge they need to rethink how the agency finances itself.
Officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency that runs New York City’s subways, buses and commuter-rail lines, plan to sit down with lawmakers and labor groups in the coming months to begin negotiations on new sources of funding and cost cutting. They say it’s too early to discuss specific options. But successful measures in other US cities offer clues as to what New York may consider.
