The MTA has named former Massachusetts transportation secretary Richard Davey as the next president of the New York City Transit Authority.
Davey, who once ran Boston's commuter rail network as well as the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , the fifth largest public transit system in the nation, will assume his new position on May 2.
Davey will be the first permanent president of the city's transit system since Andy Byford resigned in February of 2020. He succeeds former MTA Bus president Craig Cipriano and transportation executive Sarah Feinberg who each ran the New York City Transit Authority on an interim basis over the past two years. Cipriano will be appointed chief operating officer at the Transit Authority, reporting to Davey.
Davey told Eyewitness News that his top priority will be to bring more riders back to North America's largest transit system, which remains at 59% of pre-pandemic levels. The transit system needs to overcome"a multitude of challenges," he said. "It's the crime and some of the disorder but it's also some of these horrific incidents that have occurred that, I think, are seared in people's minds. And then it's the underlying social issues-mental health and chronic homelessness-that are not going to be solved by one person."
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