MTA

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) stands as North America’s largest transportation network, serving 15.3 million people across a 5,000-square-mile region encompassing New York City, Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut. Comprising six agencies, the MTA operates the nation’s largest bus fleet and more subway and commuter rail cars than all other U.S. transit systems combined. It facilitates approximately 2.6 billion annual trips, accounting for about one-third of the nation’s mass transit users and two-thirds of its commuter rail passengers. This safe, clean, and efficient public transportation, including MTA Bridges and Tunnels—which carried a record 329 million vehicles in 2019, more than any other authority nationwide—is the lifeblood of the New York City area.