New York Republicans are calling for the city's Transportation Director to be expelled, despite cash injecting from Kathy Hochul's “crowded pricing” Manhattan fare zone.
A press conference came Wednesday, days after Transport Secretary Sean Duffy visited Dover, New Jersey, assessed the huge sinkhole that closed the I-80. Republicans also want an audit of the entire transport system.
So Duffy criticized Hochul for not retracting the pricing of the crowds, saying New York officials need to get a better treatment for subway crime.
“Don’t let people get on trains, transport them, then make them safe, clean, beautiful, and not great.
“We don't need to go into war on this,” Hochur reportedly said in that respect.
New York lawmakers explode MTA after “dismissal” comments on crime issues
Sen. Steve Chan, state Sen. R-Bath Beach, announced the bill at the Albany Conference. This will add two more members to the state-run MTA board of directors. One represents the NYPD Transit Police and the other represents the Traffic Police Union.
Retired NYPD Sergeant and Hong Kong immigrant Chang has condemned a series of dangerous incidents on the Brooklyn area railway, including a nationwide reported case of passengers that caught fire on nearby Coney Island.
“If it takes two days to dig half a hole, how long does it take for one man to dig a hole?” Chan asked the Presser.
“The questions can be answered by (MTA Chair) Janno Lieber, because that's what he does every year.
“The MTA's motto is, “The higher the cost, the less we have to offer to you.” That's why every year around this time, the MTA holds a tin cup, “We need more money.” And Albany Democrats bend their knees into a false, false, bloated, inactive transport system. ”
Chang said that during his decades as a police officer, he saw the best and worst of the subway, but today he is leaning towards the worst.
He said that only a few years ago, solo passengers could feel safe underground at 3am, but not today.
“I know of private companies that can run MTAs better. I think they must be able to take the company and give them one bus line. They will make a profit soon.”
Chang lamented what the metro system calls criminal “freedom” and argued that the claims of reduced crime were the result of loose enforcement and downgrade fees.
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Sen. Bill Weber of R-Clarkstown said his constituents north of the city must pay the MTA surftax for what he called an inefficient service and have to choose to bravely bravely for indirect transport options or congested tolls.
He suggested that the MTA was blaming NJTransit. This ran an MTA train passing through the yard condition on its way to Spring Valley or Port Jervis, calling for the expulsion of Reaver.
“The two bills I'm proposing today bring more money back into the taxpayer's pockets in Rockland (county) and hopefully the MTA moves in the right direction,” he said.
Sen. Jack Martins of R-Mineola added that he hopes the MTA will succeed, but has long doubted it.
“Their success is our success. Their success is New York State's success,” he said.
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“() Every dollar that comes out to fund the (New Yorker) MTA. Frankly, we don't get anything for it. It's time for the pricing of congestion to be removed. It's time for audits and real audits that lead to waste, fraud, abuse that exists in the MTA.”
Senate minority leader Rob Oatt, R-Niagara Falls, closed the meeting saying the GOP Caucus wanted the MTA to succeed and should not be misunderstood as wanting to fail.
“(But) whenever we throw more money at them, we're part of the problem. If you need accountability, the easiest way is to “spigot off until you show that you want to make changes in billions of dollars about other things you can get.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, top MTA officials rejected the collective claims and criticised Martins in particular.
“LIRR has a 24% decline in metro crime since last year and record-breaking performance on the metro and subway crime, and it has a balanced operating budget for the MTA, so it is moving that some politicians can't read the budget.”
“Mr. Martins has a track record of being wrong. He fought against LIRR improvements and opposed the third track expansion project (Nassau County).
“Now, Mr. Martins is back in the office and is trying to make him believe that the project is complete and that he has no improvement. During that time, it only happened because he was outside the picture.”
MTA officials acknowledged that NJ Transit serves Rockland and Orange counties and could be better when it comes to Weber's criticism.
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