Mayor Eric Adams wants his recommended MTA board members to be regular straphangers, not car drivers.
In the weeks ahead, Adams will be able to propose four people for the MTA’s 23-member board, who will represent his administration on the massive state authority in charge of the city’s subways, buses, commuter railroads, and seven bridges and two tunnels.
“We have several names we’re looking at and we’re analyzing, and I think all of these guys and ladies should not be in cars, they should get MetroCards,” Mayor Adams told reporters after an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn on Sunday, Jan. 17.