The Metropolitan Transportation Authority held its first of three public hearings on the proposed rate hike, which would raise the cost of a bus or subway ride from $2.90 to $3.

An audit in June 2024 of the New York Public Transportation Safety Board’s State Safety Oversight Program, which oversees safety for the New York City Transit rail system, found “significant safety deficiencies” in the Rail Transit Roadway Worker Protection (RWP) program and a noted increase in “near-miss events involving transit workers.”