Metropolitan Transportation Authority

President Trump named Sarah Feinberg, a former FRA administrator, and Chris Koos of Illinois to the board of the quasi-public national passenger railroad.

Congress should direct more COVID-19 relief dollars to higher ridership systems, think tank Regional Plan Association said.

While their regions, sizes and funding streams vary, several mass transit systems underscored the dire need for additional federal funding.

Bringing bond denominations down to $1,000 would capture goodwill from New York residents and transit riders, said Mitchell Moss of New York University.

The mass transit authority cannot tap the Municipal Liquidity Facility directly, chief financial officer Robert Foran said.

Size, timing and structure hinge on market variables, senior manager Jefferies said.

Debt restructuring options as the transit agency navigates through the coronavirus crisis include refundings for savings or to push out debt, according to Robert Foran.

"This is undoubtedly the toughest time in MTA history," said Patrick Foye, who has asked Congress to double its $3.8 billion relief package.

Its series of responses provides a greater understanding of the city’s history, says NYU Wagner's Mitchell Moss.

The authority, which Moody’s dropped to A2 from A1, seeks a further $4 billion from Washington and has paused its capital program.

Rachael Fauss of Reinvent Albany explores cash-flow remedies for the mass transit system amid the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Federal Reserve possibly buying MTA bonds. Other topics include data transparency. Paul Burton hosts.

Brodsky, who died of suspected complications from COVID-19, is remembered as a tenacious public official and a skilled debater.

More federal rescue moves are necessary for the nation’s largest mass transit system, according to the advocacy group Reinvent Albany.

The rating agency echoed others in citing the New York transportation system's hard fall since the coronavirus outbreak.

The agency placed its ratings on the MTA’s Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority general revenue bonds and subordinate revenue bonds on watch-downgrade.

Tom Prendergast and Denise Berger were hired by the engineering firm to spearhead major infrastructure needs facing the New York City region.

Nicole Gelinas from the Manhattan Institute discusses the economic blows to New York City and the MTA from the pandemic, and options available. Paul Burton hosts the program, recorded one week ago.

He is maintaining his full schedule and working at home, authority officials said.

The rating agency, citing severe ridership drops from COVID-19, dropped its rating to A-minus from A. It assigns a negative outlook.

New York MTA and 10 other transit systems have cited the crippling effects of ridership drops due to COVID-19.