Cuomo Orders NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority To Disinfect Subway Trains Every Night

Jim Malatras, president of SUNY Empire State College, left, listens as New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo takes one final question while leaving his daily CCP virus press briefing at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, on April 28, 2020. Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) during his CCP virus update on April 29 ordered Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers to develop a cleaning plan to disinfect all subway trains every night after reports that the subway system has deteriorated.

Cuomo said that he had seen pictures of “things that are going on in the New York City subway system, where the cars were filthy, they were disgusting, homeless people were there with all their belongings,” and noted that crime levels had gone up in the subways, too, even though “ridership down 90 percent.”