Transportation
MTA Chief Pushes for NY to Stop Fighting Over Budget: ‘We Can’t Wait Forever’
- Biggest US transit system can’t wait forever, Lieber says
- MTA needs state help to fill $600 million deficit this year
An MTA employee on a subway line in New York City.
Photographer: John Taggart/BloombergThe head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is urging state lawmakers to end their budget wrangling and fix the transit agency’s finances.
The MTA, a state agency that operates New York City’s subways, buses and commuter lines, is caught up in the legislature’s overdue budget for the fiscal year that began April 1. The biggest US mass-transit system needs Albany to boost its funding to cover lost farebox revenue as many employees work part of the week from home. The state’s budget impasse is also holding up the MTA’s planned fare increases for this year.