{"id":13051,"date":"2020-06-22T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/broke-mta-defends-100k-report-on-coronavirus-safety-measures\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:39:00","slug":"broke-mta-defends-100k-report-on-coronavirus-safety-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/broke-mta-defends-100k-report-on-coronavirus-safety-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"#Broke MTA defends $100K report on coronavirus safety measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Broke MTA defends $100K report on coronavirus safety measures<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 22, 2020 |<\/span> 4:39pm |<\/span> Updated June 22, 2020 | 4:52pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n The cash-strapp<\/a>ed MTA on Monday defended blowing up to $100,000 for consultants to write a report on coronavirus safety measures at other transit agencies \u2014 while admitting it had already implemented many of them.<\/p>\n

Chairman Pat Foye on Monday insisted the report by engineering firm WSP and Johns Hopkins public health professor Aisha Rivera Margarin \u2014 released Monday \u2014 \u201cprovides significant value to us as an agency and to [MTA] customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Foye would not say whether the MTA plans to move ahead with any of the ideas in the report that the agency wasn\u2019t already using \u2014 which include thermal temperature checks at station entrances, sophisticated air circulation tech and cleaning robots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe report lists a number of things that we\u2019re already doing, some things that are being done at other transit agencies,\u201d Foye told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is on the table in terms of minimizing public health risk to our customers and employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Foye has publicly mulled one key recommendation \u2014 restricting ridership through capacity limits or a Ticketmaster-style reservation system \u2014 for months.<\/p>\n

Other steps \u2014 including a customer and employee mask requirement, space between bus drivers and passengers and \u201cfar ultraviolet\u201d lamps to kill germs \u2014 were implemented in the spring.<\/p>\n

The MTA \u201cis essentially, in many ways, a best practice itself,\u201d said Lisa Daglian of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee advocacy group.<\/p>\n

Of the report\u2019s 172 citations, all but 13 are from publicly-available websites, many drawing from news<\/a> articles. The rest came from real-time interviews.<\/p>\n

Still, Daglian defended the agency for going outside of its 70,000-person workforce for answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MTA has very talented and smart people working for it who are very familiar with the MTA, but not necessarily familiar with systems in Saigon or Singapore or other parts of the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Global best practices] are good to know and good to have should there be a spike and the city and region need to go into more stringent lockdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MTA faces a deficit of more than $10 billion in lost fare, toll and tax revenue over the next two years thanks to the coronavirus, according to transit officials.<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s contract with WSP is for \u201cup to $100,000,\u201d and has not been exhausted, MTA rep Abbey Collins said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are tons of interesting suggestions and ideas [in the report],\u201d Collins told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a long way to go and we are going to take every innovation and every approach under consideration.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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