Robert R. Kiley, the head of New...
Robert R. Kiley, the head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has resigned. He was the longest-serving chairman of the nation’s largest transit system, which carries 6 million passengers daily. Kiley, 55, who was appointed by Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1983, will become president and chief executive of Fischbach Corp., an electrical engineering firm based in New York. The MTA oversees New York’s massive subway and bus system, the Long Island Rail Road, the Metro-North Commuter Railroad, the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, and the Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority.
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