“The MTA needs to exhibit some fiscal responsibility and get its own financial house in order before asking for the taxpayers of our state to bail them out,” the pols said in a letter.
Senate Republicans cited fare evasions as another area of scrutiny for DiNapoli.
“The amount lost has been steadily and rapidly increasing over the last several years. This increase has reached a point where last year, it is estimated that the MTA lost over half a billion dollars as a result of riders not paying their fares. Simply installing head-to-foot turnstiles would drastically reduce fare evasion and yet it does not seem there has been any effort made to do so,” the letter reads.
The MTA has faced additional criticism in recent weeks over labor costs at the Long Island Rail Road as well as other fiscal issues.Lisa Daglian, executive director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, suggested the push by Republican senators might not be so necessary considering the existing oversight reporting done by DiNapoli, the Legislature, and the federal government.
GOP senators, though, say they are losing patience with the MTA, which has received billions in federal aid in recent years to confront budgetary shortfalls related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Year after year, we hear that the MTA is facing a fiscal crisis and needs more money. Year after year, we see the governor and certain lawmakers trying to introduce new ways to get more money out of the taxpayers to keep the MTA solvent,” they said in their letter. “At this point, turning to the taxpayers should be a last resort, not a first option.”
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