The federal government is after the MTA again, this time on Tuesday asking the agency for answers regarding transit worker safety.

New Federal Transit Administration (FTA) boss Marc Molinaro followed up to a special directive given under President Joe Biden’s administration last year telling the MTA’s NYC Transit to strengthen safety measures after a 57-year-old Hilarion Joseph, a track maintenance employee working as a flagger, was struck and killed by a train on the job near Midtown’s Herald Square station in November 2023.

Associate administrator and chief safety officer at the FTA, Joe DeLorenzo, wrote a “final warning letter” to the MTA on Aug. 19 to address safety risks for train maintenance workers. DeLorenzo wrote that the FTA “rejects the second safety risk assessment (SRA), whi

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