A Manhattan congressmember and the U.S. secretary of transportation accused each other of lying about subway safety as they presented competing statistics at a U.S. House of Representatives committee hearing Wednesday.
Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.), a senior member of the House’s transportation committee, questioned Sean Duffy, who leads the federal Department of Transportation, over Duffy’s public criticism of the MTA. Duffy has accused the MTA of allowing crime to fester in the subway, despite police statistics showing overall subway crime declining.
