NYC Transit Worker Assaults Are Down as Officials Seek Funds
THe Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to spend $540 million this year and another $778 million in 2026 on security.
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Assaults on subway and bus workers in New York City dropped by 31% last year, a statistic cited by transit officials in a letter to the Transportation Department in a bid to stave off threatened federal funding cuts.
Janno Lieber, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s chief executive officer, sent the 22-page response Sunday to a request from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy about crime statistics amid warnings that federal transit money could be withheld. The MTA runs the city’s subway, bus and commuter rail lines.