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MTA says recovery is underway but calls for stable capital funding to speed repairs and expansion
Summary
MTA Chair Janno Lieber told lawmakers ridership has returned to much of pre-pandemic levels and on-time performance for commuter railroads has improved, but the MTA board's five-year, $68 billion capital plan needs steady funding to finish accessibility, accessibility, bus and railcar purchases and resilience projects.
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told the joint fiscal committees that the MTA has made measurable operational gains since 2023 and is seeing ridership climb, but stressed the authority needs a stable, predictable capital program to maintain and expand those gains.
"Transit for New Yorkers is like air and water," Lieber said. "We need it to survive." He told legislators the 2023 budget agreement that closed a multibillion-dollar operating shortfall permitted the MTA to preserve service and that the authority is now seeing ridership growth and improved on-time performance across commuter lines.
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