MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber
Photograph by Dean Moses
All we are able to do is keep centered and preserve shifting ahead – and, with continued help from Gov. Kathy Hochul, we’re having actual success. Not that you just’ll examine it in a lot of the tabloid press.
Ridership is as much as 6 million prospects a day throughout all businesses—subways, buses, paratransit, and commuter rail. Service has been regularly enhancing, particularly on buses, for the reason that begin of congestion pricing. Speeds are up systemwide, and within the Congestion Reduction Zone, we’re experimenting with eradicating scheduled time factors in order that buses can transfer as shortly because the racing site visitors. Knicks legend Clyde Frazier stated as a lot himself in a current broadcast.
Subway’s on-time efficiency (OTP) routinely beats objectives, nowhere extra so than the Rockaways. Our alternative shuttle is hitting 99% OTP whereas we’re scheduled to finish a significant rehabilitation venture on the peninsula. Residents and native elected officers are giving us excessive marks.
As we instructed U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in our complete response to his letter, crime is down systemwide—20% in comparison with final yr and 40% in comparison with January and February 2020, proper earlier than the pandemic.
I’m the primary to say we have now a approach to go earlier than riders really feel as protected as they should, however the stats don’t lie. Progress has been made due to Governor Hochul’s investments in in a single day patrols and the NYPD’s good policing, led by Commissioner Tisch.
Subway fare evasion additionally continues to pattern downward – 30% since summer time 2024 due to our MTA gate guards, bodily adjustments to turnstiles, and elevated enforcement.
The underside line is that regardless of the noise or snark, the brand new MTA will preserve delivering for New Yorkers.
Janno Lieber is MTA Chair and CEO.
