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Hil Rides MTA on Security Cameras By Michael McAuliff 7/13/05 |
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton wants to know why the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority has failed to rig New York's subways with
security cameras like the ones that helped London police identify four suspected suicide bombers in last week's deadly attacks.
"I don't understand what the MTA is waiting for," Clinton said yesterday before sending a letter to transit boss Peter Kalikow asking what the holdup is on cameras and other projects.
"I write to express my concern about recent press reports that the ... MTA has not spent most of its $600 million capital budget that you identified as needed following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," Clinton wrote.
The Daily News reported yesterday that among the items not purchased by the Transit Authority are
surveillance cameras. The TA has such cameras in just 17 stations. The London Underground has 6,000 cameras.
Clinton's swipe at the MTA, the TA's parent agency, came after a news conference with fellow Democrats who accused President Bush of shortchanging the nation on homeland security. "I want to be sure that while I am fighting for additional funding at the federal level that those funds will be used efficiently and in a timely manner by the MTA," Clinton told Kalikow.
The MTA has said it will award contracts for a
surveillance system later this year. Source:
nydailynews.com
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