{"id":20336,"date":"2025-10-28T20:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:54:06","slug":"new-york-city-transit-chief-janno-lieber-talks-trump-threats-free-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20336\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Transit Chief Janno Lieber Talks Trump Threats, Free Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has big plans for the next few years. New train cars, signal fixes and station upgrades are on the way for New York City\u2019s aging subway system; so are multibillion-dollar projects like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/project\/interborough-express\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Interborough Express<\/a>, a proposed rail line between Brooklyn and Queens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">But many of Gotham\u2019s grandest transit ambitions hinge on funding help from the federal government, which has taken an increasingly antagonistic stance toward the city and its vast transportation network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has big plans for the next few years. New train cars, signal fixes and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5879,3339,5869,5862,11301,609,2423,8107,9,24,56,63,65,64,608],"class_list":{"0":"post-20336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-chief-executive-officer","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-citylab","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-free","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-janno-lieber","15":"tag-mta-bvba","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nyc-headlines","21":"tag-nyc-news","22":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}