MTA head blasts Trump’s Penn Station plan as having ‘the appearance of impropriety’

Pulling ‘a fast one’ at Penn Station? MTA boss Lieber accuses Trump admin of trying to bamboozle agency over redevelopment plan

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of trying to pull a "fast one" on the agency with its latest overture to sign an agreement around its Penn Station redevelopment plan. The transit boss, during the MTA's monthly board meeting on June 24, publicly responded to a Monday letter from Andy Byford — Amtrak's special adviser for the redevelopment — asking him to reconsider signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MO…

MTA head blasts Trump’s Penn Station plan as having ‘the appearance of impropriety’

NEW YORK — MTA Chairman Janno Lieber blasted President Donald Trump’s Penn Station Czar Andy Byford over the plans for a rebuilt and renewed Penn Station over what he called a “simply bizarre” process to rebuild the facility that is…

MTA chair calls Amtrak's Penn Station planning 'bizarre,' declines to join as partner

MTA Chair Janno Lieber raised several concerns over Amtrak's oversight of the Penn Station reconstruction effort.

For PSNY Redevelopment, a Three-Ring Circus (Updated June 26)

The circus has returned to Madison Square Garden! Relations between Amtrak and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) have been strained lately, and a new skirmish about Amtrak’s proposed […]