Speaker Corey Johnson makes sweeping call to scrap MTA, rethink BQE
In his first State of the City speech on Tuesday, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson focused on one topic: getting rid of the MTA and taking control of the city’s dysfunctional mass transit system.
He also rallied the city to “break the car culture” and rethink its controversial plan to rebuild the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street.
“We’ll have a new system with a new name,” he said. “I’m calling it Big Apple Transit — BAT for short.