Federal transportation officials on Tuesday threatened to withhold some funding from the MTA, claiming the agency’s leaders keep underplaying the safety risks New York City Transit workers face on the job.

Joe DeLorenzo, the Chief Safety Officer at the Federal Transit Administration, wrote in a letter that the MTA has repeatedly used “flawed analytical approaches” in developing a new safety plan that was mandated by the feds after a subway track worker was fatally struck by a train in November 2023 and another worker was seriously injured on the job in June 2024.

DeLorenzo gave the MTA 30 days to submit a new plan or else risk losing federal safety funding. He did not clarify exactly how much funding could be cut.

"I am disturbed by MTA's failure to reinforce safety measures following

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