MTA boss warns devastating proposed federal cuts to transit funding on the horizon
MTA Chair Janno Lieber warned that proposed federal funding cuts in Congress could result in a $250 million annual loss for New York's transit system.
The MTA faces the grim prospect of $250 million in annual federal funding formula cuts under legislation currently being pushed in the Republican-controlled Congress — reductions that MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber warned Wednesday could spell big trouble for New York’s mass transit system. Lieber, during the latest meeting of the agency’s board on...
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