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“#OT spending drops slightly to $1.1B but is still off the rails at the MTA” Overtime spending at the MTA dropped by a measly $122 million in 2020, according to a new report — but that didn’t stop transit brass from touting their “progress.” MTA Chairman Pat Foye praised the latest figures, even though the…
“#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 14, 2021” COVID cleanseIt doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the transit system was and is a possible spreader of COVID (“Fight over scrubways,” Feb. 11). But City Council members and transit advocates know better. Really? I didn’t know they were infectious-disease experts. They should have…
“#MTA overtime kings are looking more and more like mobsters” If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . The alleged overtime pay conspiracy by a group of MTA workers looks even more like organized crime than we’d thought. The five co-defendants each pleaded “not guilty” Wednesday to the two-count…
“#Does the Long Island Rail Road have a mafia problem?” Five current and former MTA employees — including the sons of two convicted mob figures — now face federal conspiracy charges for alleged overtime fraud. Do the the feds need to probe for mafia infiltration of the Long Island Rail Road unions? The indictment is…
“#Above-ground subway service, commuter rail to NYC will resume Tuesday morning” Above-ground subways and New York’s commuter railroads will resume service early Tuesday morning following shutdowns caused by Winter Storm Orlena. The subway service will return at 5 a.m., according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, while the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North are expected…
“#Sky’s the limit for new Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station” The new Moynihan Train Hall, unveiled on Wednesday by Gov. Cuomo, is a sight to behold — a monumentally scaled waiting room for Amtrak and LIRR riders who might blink twice. Crowned with an eye-popping, 92-feet-high skylight, it’s a vision from heaven for passengers…
“#Prosecutions for MTA OT fraud are a sign to watch out for next big scam” “Overtime king” Thomas Caputo and four other current and former MTA employees face up to 10 years in prison on charges of federal program fraud for collecting overtime pay when not actually on the job. It’s a small measure of…
“#’Unfathomable’ MTA budget proposal includes over 9,000 job cuts” Weekday subway service could be nearly chopped in half and over 9,000 transit workers could lose their jobs under an MTA budget proposal being presented to the agency’s board on Wednesday. But the potential cuts could be mitigated if the transit agency receives a hefty $12…
“#LIRR workers honored for saving man stuck on NYC tracks” An ad hoc team of five Long Island Rail Road workers saved the life of a man who got his shoes stuck between the tracks at the East New York station on Wednesday, officials said. The workers sprang into action just after 7:29 a.m. after…