Omg. You can't make this stuff up. The MTA is a joke.
"One of the weirdest cases was when a pair of transit workers
with scant seafaring experience tried to help out with repairs of the subway tunnel near Roosevelt Island, but on their way back crashed the MTA’s only boat — aptly named “Perfect Storm” — into the rocky coast of southern Brooklyn in October 2020".
https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-wat...n-2021-report/
The MTA’s internal watchdog got more complaints than ever before last year, according to a new report showing the Office of Inspector General got 1,400 grievances about the transit agency in 2021.
That breaks the OIG’s previous record set in 2019 when it got 1,375 complaints about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Almost three-quarters (71%) of issues last year were about New York City Transit, the MTA’s subsidiary in charge of running the city’s subways and buses, however, the agency is also by far the largest making up 68% of the Authority’s nearly 67,000 employees.
More than half (54%) of the complaints were about employee misconduct, and the largest share, or 40%, came from the public, according to the OIG’s annual review of its oversight work.
“Our office is committed to providing the public with insight into OIG activities wherever possible,” said acting MTA Inspector General Elizabeth Keating in a statement Wednesday. “With this report we hope to reinforce the confidence New Yorkers have in our office, as we work to help optimize the present and future operations of the MTA.”
The inspector general’s office has uncovered some eyebrow-raising cases, such as the destruction of MTA’s only boat, toll-dodging employees, out of control overtime, and byzantine construction project practices.
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