Responsibilities and Service Area
The MTA has the responsibility for developing and implementing a unified mass transportation policy for the New York metropolitan area, including all five boroughs of New York City and the suburban counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester, all of which together are the "Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD)". Joseph Lhota is currently Chairman & CEO of the MTA, having been nominated by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Nuria Fernandez has also been named as Chief Operating Officer.
The MTA's immediate past chairpersons were: Richard Ravitch (1979–1983), Robert Kiley (1983–1991), Peter Stangl (1991–1995), Virgil Conway (1995-2001), Peter S. Kalikow (2001-2007), Dale Hemmerdinger (2007-2009) and Jay Walder (2009-2011).
The MTA is the largest public transportation provider in the Western Hemisphere. Its agencies serve a region of approximately 14.6 million people spread over 5,000 square miles (13,000 km²) in 12 New York Counties and two in Connecticut. MTA agencies now move more than 8.5 million customers per day (2.6 billion rail and bus customers a year) and employ approximately 65,000 workers.
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