New York City Transit President Andy Byford who's made improving buses one of his top priorities.

Challenges Ahead for the Man in Charge of the MTA

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 10, 2018

William Finnegan, New Yorker staff writer and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Penguin Press, 2015), talks about the myriad challenges facing the new New York City Transit Authority president Andy Byford and how his plans to address them.

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