MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber
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All we are able to do is keep targeted and preserve transferring ahead – and, with continued assist from Gov. Kathy Hochul, we’re having actual success. Not that you simply’ll examine it in a lot of the tabloid press.
Ridership is as much as 6 million clients a day throughout all businesses—subways, buses, paratransit, and commuter rail. Service has been frequently bettering, particularly on buses, because the begin of congestion pricing. Speeds are up systemwide, and within the Congestion Aid Zone, we’re experimenting with eradicating scheduled time factors in order that buses can transfer as rapidly because the racing site visitors. Knicks legend Clyde Frazier mentioned as a lot himself in a current broadcast.
Subway’s on-time efficiency (OTP) routinely beats objectives, nowhere extra so than the Rockaways. Our substitute shuttle is hitting 99% OTP whereas we’re scheduled to finish a serious rehabilitation mission 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’ve got a method 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 sensible policing, led by Commissioner Tisch.
Subway fare evasion additionally continues to pattern downward – 30% since summer season 2024 due to our MTA gate guards, bodily modifications to turnstiles, and elevated enforcement.
The underside line is that irrespective of the noise or snark, the brand new MTA will preserve delivering for New Yorkers.
Janno Lieber is MTA Chair and CEO.
