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Employees of the New York City Transit Authority assigned to the New York City Subway and in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx are members of the Transport Workers Union of America Local 100, with Queens and Staten Island bus personnel represented by various Amalgamated Transit Union locals.
MTA agencies now move about 8.6 million customers per day (translating to 2.65 billion rail and bus customers a year) and employ about 74,000 people. The MTA's systems carry over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.
The fleet consists of over 5,700 buses of various types and models for fixed-route service, making MTA RBO's fleet the largest public bus fleet in the United States. The MTA also has over 2,000 vans and cabs for ADA paratransit service, providing service in New York City, southwestern Nassau County, and the city of Yonkers.
In 2015, 257 Metro-North Railroad employees made more than $200,000, according to payroll data recently added to the Empire Center for Public Policy’s transparency website, SeeThroughNY.net.
The authority has 10,290 employees, making it one of the region's largest employers. [1] The authority also partially funds sixteen municipal bus operators and an array of transportation projects including bikeways and pedestrian facilities, local roads and highway improvements, goods movement, Metrolink regional commuter rail, Freeway Service ...
Lhota’s letter outlined a few new steps to boost service. He said over the next 60 days, the MTA will make a roadmap for improving the subway and launch a “dashboard that presents the metrics ...
The accusations against the employees is an "egregious betrayal of public trust," said MTA spokesperson Tim Minton, in a statement thanking authorities — which included the MTA Inspector General ...
State employees who possess a Maryland State Employee ID card can ride MTA local bus, Light Rail, and the Metro Subway free of charge. Any state employee with the ID card can get a continuation ticket to get through the gates on the Metro Subway. For the bus, the person shows the state employee ID card to the driver when boarding.