ALBANY — Republican state lawmakers want the MTA’s head honcho to resign after he brushed off New Yorker’s concerns about subway crime — as questions swirl over the flailing agency’s chaotic financial picture.
Eleven state Senators said Wednesday they want Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chair and CEO Janno Lieber to step down. If he won’t go on his own, then Gov. Kathy Hochul should step in and forcibly remove him.
“Janno Lieber has lost the trust of commuters,” Long Island state Senator Steven Rhoads (R-Nassau) said at a news conference in the state Capitol.
“Janno Leber has lost the trust of our conference,” Rhoads went on. “In general, Lieber has lost the trust of New Yorkers and the people who live, work and raise a family here.”
Lieber has faced growing scrutiny since the Sunday rollout of an unpopular $9 congestion toll to drive into Midtown Manhattan, as state legislators return to Albany expecting to debate even more taxes and fees to fund the MTA’s massive capital plan.