Nov
13
DiNapoli: Security measures still behind schedule
ByNew York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has issued yet another report about the state of the MTA’s security efforts. According to this latest missive — available here as a PDF — the MTA’s capital security program won’t wrap up until 2011, three years after it was originally supposed to debut and ten years after the attacks of 9/11. Most alarming are the cost increases. The program is now set to cost $837 million, up 42 percent from the initial estimate of $591 million. The report does offer up some praise for the MTA’s popular “See Something, Say Something” campaign. [Office of the New York State Comptroller]
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[...] and the agency’s security efforts have been stymied, as State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli noted in November, by nearly every problem on the books. From a lack of technological compatibility to bureaucratic [...]