“We may cancel a few trains that nobody is using so that we can take the cars and put them on the trains that are very busy,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber.
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Courtesy Office of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has asked the Internal Revenue Service to allow commuters to access money that was deducted from their paychecks for train tickets to ride Metropolitan Transportation Authority railways.
Schumer, from the Merrick LIRR train station on Long Island, asked the Internal Revenue Service to figure out a way for Long Islanders to access the unused money accrued last year from that payroll deduction.
“The federal government and the IRS by keeping the money when people couldn t use it, they weren t even allowed to commute,” Schumer said. “And the dollars belong in people s pockets, not in purgatory.”