Rail and transit security grant program

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) received a $33.9 million Rail and Transit Security Grant Program (CFDA 97.075) award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. This Project Grant funds comprehensive security enhancements across the MTA's three major subsidiaries—New York City Transit Authority, Long Island Rail Road Company, and Metro North Railroad—to protect critical transit infrastructure and the traveling public from acts of terrorism.

The funded activities include surveillance equipment upgrades, cybersecurity improvements, emergency response training, and infrastructure hardening measures across all three subsidiaries. These investments align with the TSGP's core focus areas, which encompass transit security police forces and law enforcement overtime for directed patrols, canine teams, and anti-terrorism team patrols; closed-circuit television security camera installations; cybersecurity network segmentation; critical interoperable communications systems; and anti-terrorism emergency simulation drills. All proposed security improvements are linked to the MTA's Threat & Vulnerability Assessment and are designed to measurably reduce security risk across the region's multimodal transit network serving approximately 15.1 million riders.