Count MTA leaders among those celebrating the “blue tsunami” that crashed over the country and put Democrats in charge of Congress this week.
With Democrats taking firm control of both the House and Senate in January, MTA brass announced on Nov. 5 several policy objectives they want federal lawmakers to tackle in the coming months. The wish list spells out the ways in which the MTA believes Congressional Democrats should fight funding cuts and policies by the Trump administration and the outgoing Republican-led Congress that, they said, have hurt the city’s public transit system.
