Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's continuous efforts to ward off terrorist threats to the subways, trains and buses came under severe criticism yesterday from members of a City Council committee who charged that it had made limited progress in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001 attack. The Transportation Committee had called a hearing to insist that transit officials account for how they would spend more than $590 million that was first committed in late 2002 to fortify the public transportation system. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's protracted efforts to ward off terrorist threats to the subways, trains and buses came under withering criticism yesterday from members of a City Council committee who charged that it had made far too little progress in the years. The Transportation Committee had called a hearing to insist that transit officials account for how they would spend more than $590 million that was first committed in late 2002 to fortify the public transportation system. She declined to provide details, but said the authority would spend $220 million on ''hardening'' M.T.A. properties against attack.