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Wednesday’s Headlines: ‘The End of the MTA?’ Edition

Well, today's MTA Board meeting should be fun.

Well, today's MTA Board meeting should be fun.

Not only is the board going to confront whether to borrow $3 billion from the feds, as Streetsblog reported this week, the Daily News reported on Tuesday that the agency's proposed 40-percent cut in weekday subway service and layoffs of more than 9,000 transit workers are "on the table" — with board member Andrew Albert calling it "an end to the New York way of life."

Meanwhile, MTA CEO Pat Foye is concerned that his agency's path to a $12-billion recovery package has to go through two very-much-in-doubt Georgia Senate runoffs on Jan. 5, the Post reported.

An agency at a crossroads. File photo: MTA Well, today's MTA Board meeting should be fun.

Not only is the board going to confront whether to borrow $3 billion from the feds, as Streetsblog reported this week, the Daily News reported on Tuesday that the agency's proposed 40-percent cut in [...]




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