The MTA has announced the end of a two-year cost-cutting, job-shedding "transformation" ordered by former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo once called the MTA a “governmental Frankenstein” and ordered the MTA to consolidate.
In the end, of the 2,000 administrative positions that were supposed to be cut, just 270 were eliminated.
“Everyone agrees that moment of disruption outta be put behind us," said Janno Lieber is the current interim Chairman.
The MTA did lose workers, just not the ones Cuomo had in mind.
Subway conductors and bus drivers retired at such high rates during the pandemic, that 10 percent of subway trips are now canceled. The agency is scrambling to hire and train more transit workers.