The MTA is stuck in idle when it comes to attacks on bus drivers, critics say.
As more assaults pile up, the MTA is dragging its wheels on implementing a tip hot line the agency and Gov. Cuomo trumpeted months ago, union officials told The Post.
“The MTA has exhibited an institutional blindness on the dirty little secret of three or four bus operators a week getting assaulted,” said TWU Local 100 President John Samuelson.
In May, the MTA and the governor introduced Transit Watch, an MTA-funded cash-reward program of up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of brutes who attack MTA employees.
But so far, not a dime in reward money has been given out.
“The program is functional, but we have not been promoting it while we get systems in place to handle the large number of calls we expect,” said MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg.