Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Failure to aid one could hurt the others, according to the state comptroller's review of the city's financial plan.

As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority lines up two note sales, the rating agency said the authority could tap into the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Patrick Foye called mass transit "the circulatory system of the nation."

Even with more federal rescue aid, which is hardly a given, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority may have to resort to deficit borrowing.

The shroud of uncertainty surrounding further COVID-19 federal rescue aid has many public transit agencies and advocates antsy.

They are pushing the U.S. Senate for up to $36 billion, citing the devastating effects from COVID-19.

Setting capital investment priorities and other efficiencies can help the public transit system through its coronavirus-related fiscal crisis, a budget watchdog says.

Organizers say the goal is for for technologies to make public transit safer, cleaner and more adaptive.

Despite the coronavirus wrecking havoc all over the world and with the brunt of the damage occurring in the second quarter of the year, municipal bond issuers have sold just over $23 billion more than they did at this time last year.

Marc Pfeffer, chief investment officer at CLS Investments, talks about today’s municipal bond market and looks to the future.