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MTA New York City Transit

· Brooklyn, NY · NTD ID 20008

MTA New York City Transit reported 15,127 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 1,068 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 3.56 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 79 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.11x the national rate.

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Events per million miles
3.56
#29 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
15,127
#1 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
1,068
18,833 injured, 863 seriously
Service driven
1,386M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 4,936 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system
  • Suicides 348
  • Other or unclassified 265
  • People on the right-of-way 188
  • Waiting or boarding 139
  • Riding the vehicle 79
  • People on the road 40
  • Transit workers 9

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 1,068. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 869 → 2025: 1590 · peak 1764

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 41 worker assault events 2015: 56 worker assault events 2016: 69 worker assault events 2017: 90 worker assault events 2018: 196 worker assault events 2019: 216 worker assault events 2020: 86 worker assault events 2021: 129 worker assault events 2022: 210 worker assault events 2023: 290 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 299 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 279 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

2,008 total · peak 299 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Fixed-Route Bus 6,844
  • Core Rail 6,813
  • Other Non-Rail 1,470

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.

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Numbers on the chips are events per million vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024.

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Generated 2026-07-13 02:56 UTC

Source: FTA National Transit Database - Major Safety and Security Events, joined to NTD Metrics for the service denominator