More money from the state, and the state is broke NFTA.. All financial reserves are drained.

This is good, and how many years has this agency burdened the taxpayers in this area.

The authority’s reserve fund, which comes from county mortgage taxes and originally earmarked for capital projects, has dried up following about 20 years of being tapped to balance the operating budget. Chief Financial Officer John Cox said the loss causes him to “lie awake at night” worrying how to respond to unforeseen expenses, and he Warned that state assistance must be increased to allow reinstatement of the fund.
She needs to go along with good clean out of big shots.
This all amounts to what Executive Director Kimberley A. Minkel called a “death spiral” that could start with service reductions, less funding, and then even further service reductions.

they need new money to blow..The NFTA is now expected to enlist the help of its Albany lobbyists and area state legislators in convincing budget planners of the need for significant new money. Zemsky, a confidant of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said the requests make good financial sense and do not represent anything “pie in the sky or unreasonable.”