The organization operates subways and buses.
The Transit Authority and its unions are nearing an agreement on a random drug-testing plan that would cover thousands of the workers responsible for operating buses and subways.
Executives of New York City Transit, which operates the city's buses and subways, said their biggest problem was quelling a widespread rumor that subway service was being suspended.
A spokesman for New York City Transit, the unit of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that operates the city's buses and subways, would not comment.
Although TRA operates all commuter rail, other quasi-private organizations operate subways in Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Unlike most other public operators in Japan, the company only operates subways without any bus lines.
MBTA also operates buses, light rail and subways in and around the greater Boston area.
The organization operates subways and a tram.
For New York City, it would mean a loss of about $100 million in Federal financing that currently goes to operate subways and commuter railroads.
A prime 120-acre portion of the outer harbor land is owned by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, a state agency that operates the city's buses, subways and airports.