NY lawmakers call for transit chief’s ouster, float reforms after Duffy decries subway ‘s---hole’

New York State Republicans are demanding the ouster of the city's transit chief, citing mediocre subway work contempt an infusion of currency from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s "congestion pricing" Manhattan toll zone.

A property league came connected Wednesday, days aft Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy visited Dover, N.J., to measure a monolithic sinkhole that had closed down I-80. Republicans are besides calling for an audit of the full transit agency. 

There, Duffy criticized Hochul for failing to rescind congestion pricing and said New York officials request to get a amended grip connected subway crime. 

"If you privation radical to instrumentality the train, to instrumentality transit, past marque it safe, marque it clean, marque it beautiful, marque it wonderful, don’t marque it a s---hole, which is what she’s done," helium said. 

"We don’t person to beryllium astatine warfare implicit this," Hochul reportedly said successful that regard.

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State Sen. Steve Chan, R-Bath Beach, announced a measure astatine the Albany league that would adhd 2 much members to the state-owned MTA’s board: 1 representing NYPD transit constabulary and different representing the transit constabulary union.

Chan, a retired NYPD sergeant and migrant from Hong Kong, condemned a drawstring of unsafe incidents connected the rails successful and astir his Brooklyn district, including the nationally reported lawsuit of a rider acceptable connected occurrence successful adjacent Coney Island.

"If it takes 2 men 2 days to excavation a fractional a hole, past however agelong would it instrumentality 1 feline to excavation a hole?" Chan asked astatine the presser.

"The question tin beryllium answered by [MTA Chair] Janno Lieber, due to the fact that that's what helium does each year: excavation himself a hole," helium said.

"The motto of the MTA seems to be, ‘the higher the cost, the little we person to connection you.’ So each twelvemonth astir this time, the MTA comes with their manus with a tin cup, ‘We request much money,’ and twelvemonth aft year, the Democrats successful Albany crook the genu to a mismanaged, misguided and bloated, lackluster transit system."

Chan said that during his decades arsenic a cop, helium saw the champion and worst of the subways, but contiguous they're leaning toward the worst. 

He said determination was erstwhile a clip lone a fewer years agone erstwhile solo passengers could consciousness harmless underground astatine 3 a.m., but not today. 

"I cognize backstage companies that could tally the MTA better. I stake I tin instrumentality a institution and springiness them 1 azygous autobus line. They'll crook a nett close away."

Chan lamented what helium called a transgression "free-for-all" successful the subway system, arguing that claims of reduced transgression are the effect of lax enforcement and downgraded charges.

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Sen. Bill Weber, R-Clarkstown, said his constituents northbound of the metropolis person had to wage a surtax to the MTA for what helium called inefficient work and person to take whether to brave the indirect transit options oregon the congestion pricing tolls.

He suggested the MTA is blaming NJTransit, which operates MTA trains that walk done the Garden State connected their mode to either Spring Valley oregon Port Jervis, and helium besides called for Lieber’s ouster.

"Two bills that I'm proposing contiguous … volition bring much wealth backmost into the pockets of Rockland [County] taxpayers and hopefully volition get the MTA moving successful the close direction," helium said.

Sen. Jack Martins, R-Mineola, added that helium hopes the MTA succeeds but has agelong doubted it.

"Their occurrence is our success. Their occurrence is New York State's success," helium said, calling the agency’s $19.9 cardinal fund an appropriation without results.

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"[For] each dollar that comes retired [of a New Yorker's] pouch that goes to money the MTA, and frankly, we get thing for it. It's clip for congestion pricing to beryllium repealed. It's clip for an audit and a existent audit that goes into the waste, fraud and maltreatment that exists astatine the MTA."

Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt, R-Niagara Falls, closed the league by saying the GOP caucus wants the MTA to succeed, and that harsh disapproval should not beryllium misconstrued arsenic wishing for failure.

"[But] each clip we propulsion them much money, we're portion of the problem. If we privation accountability, the easiest mode is to say, ‘The spigot's turned disconnected until you amusement america that you're consenting to marque changes with the billions of dollars that you get, past we tin person a speech astir different things we tin bash financially.’"

In a connection to Fox News Digital, a apical MTA authoritative rejected the corporate claims and criticized Martins successful particular.

"The LIRR is operating with grounds on-time show and crime connected the subway is down 24% since past year. And the MTA has a balanced operating budget, truthful it’s mind-boggling however immoderate politicians are seemingly not susceptible of speechmaking a budget," MTA main of argumentation John J. McCarthy said.

"Mr. Martins has a way grounds of being wrong. He fought improvements connected the LIRR, opposing the Third Track Expansion Project [in Nassau County] – a task that lone moved guardant erstwhile Martins near office."

"Now Mr. Martins is backmost successful office, the task is done, and helium is trying to marque judge determination is nary betterment – meantime it lone happened due to the fact that helium was retired of the picture." 

An MTA authoritative acknowledged that NJ Transit does tally work to Rockland and Orange counties and that it could beryllium better, successful respect to Weber's critique.