Why isn’t the MTA cutting staff and reorganizing their bureaucracy?
To an extent, the MTA is going to try to reorganize, but they are battling a strong union. According to reports, the MTA will weed out redundant positions at MTA HQ, but even the most efficient MTA wouldn’t be able to cut away at a $1.2 billion deficit. In an ideal world, New York politicians would be able to rebuild the MTA to be a lean, mean transit machine, but as it formed as a patchwork of various agencies and has remained as such since 1968, it’s not as efficient as it should be. To accomplish this would require a man with a Robert Moses-like vision and determination for the MTA. That’s that. We’ll pick this up later as more questions arise.
