MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber and MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer at the Metro-North Railroad Mott Haven Yard announce the Climate Resilience Roadmap on Thursday, Apr 25, 2024. FTA Region 2 Deputy Administrator Donovan Vincent, Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, State Senator Nathalia Fernandez, and Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi were on hand. Lieber. for a lot of us, and not just because we’re a week from Earth Day.
That doesn’t make us any less vulnerable to the accelerating impacts of climate change – torrential rainfall, extreme heat, and other types of severe weather. That’s why we developed a new Climate Resilience Roadmap. It’s a comprehensive framework to fortify the transit system against climate change, outlining $6 billion in needs to make the MTA more resilient over the next decade – critical input as we start developing the 2025-2029 Capital Program.