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MTA worker forged parking placards so he could drive to work, park in illegal spots

New York Post·Haley Brown·25 days ago
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Even the MTA doesn’t want to take the subway. An MTA safety superintendent fabricated bogus city parking placards at home so he could use them on his personal cars to park in illegal spaces outside MTA Headquarters, officials said Thursday. Leon Bipat was given a free MetroCard for working for the MTA but opted to drive to work and illegally park in a no-standing zone outside MTA offices in lower Manhattan using a placard with a forged NYC Transit insignia, MTA Inspector General Daniel Cort said in a report released Thursday. NYC Transit, the branch of the MTA where Bipat worked as a superintendent auditing safety rule compliance for subway and bus workers, does not even issue street parking placards, the report said. The worker parked outside MTA headquarters in Lower Manhattan. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post “This employee knowingly violated MTA policies and his dishonest conduct is unacceptable,” a spokesperson for the MTA said.…

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