Overview

• The Department of Transportation’s letter cited that 79% of the MTA’s major incident reports in 2024 were filed late, averaging over a month past the federal deadline.
• The MTA maintains that overall subway crime is down 3% this year while ridership climbs and service performance hits record levels.
• Agency safety data indicates a 55% increase in felony assaults compared with 2019 and a 152% rise in attacks on transit workers.
• New York’s legal victory in May secured a preliminary injunction protecting the $9 congestion pricing program, which has generated hundreds of millions for capital improvements.
• Transit advocates have labeled Duffy’s critique political posturing and credited camera rollouts, National Guard deployments and bag checks with bolstering subway security.