State audit: MTA buses too costly to maintain
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. | A waiting MTA bus sitting by the Rockville Centre station while an east bound train enters the station. (March 1, 2010)
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Commuters frustrated with MTA cutsMTA buses, including those in Nassau County, cost too much to maintain and aren't being maintained well enough, according to an audit by the state comptroller released Thursday.
The audit by the office of Thomas DiNapoli found that nearly two-thirds of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 29 bus depots did not meet their performance goals and that the cost per mile to maintain MTA buses...
