There'd be a lot to unpack to reply fairly and completely to your message here... so to be brief... I'd say the MTA's problems around poor oversight wouldn't b

There'd be a lot to unpack to reply fairly and completely to your message here... so to be brief... I'd say the MTA's problems around poor oversight wouldn't be magically solved by NYC taking control. For example, NYCHA was under NYC control. Sure, over the years the Federal Government has diminished funding from their side -- but that should not overshadow the contractor and union corruption that NYCHA, whose head was controlled by the City, suffered with. You don't need to re-read the headlines about the falsified lead inspections, but I probably do need to remind you that in the last couple of scandals (one involving orgies and parties in a South Bronx project, as well as clocking overtime while not being there), not a SINGLE person got fired, thanks to union protection. Rumors are an elevator repairman position pays 300K. Until recently, NO repairs were done anywhere after 4pm due to union agreements. Finally, the City is the worst landlord - racking up violations more than any private landlord could, in the worst sort of hypocritical irony. So no, I don't think so. NYCHA was found at fault recently in a Federal lawsuit, where HUD almost took the whole thing over. You can't blame the Federal Government for that. You probably don't want to know that all the green scaffolding that lasts years is being rented -- the money going to a private contractor. You can look this up and do the math, it's just another example of incompetence. Next, the City is already making MTA's life harder financially, and here are two recent examples. One is, the Mayor came out against banning food on the subway because it supposedly disproportionally affects the poor. Yet, trash fires from stuff like food containers account for a sizeable fraction of the delays. Here's another. The DA stopped prosecuting subway turnstile jumping, which costs 80M a year from lost subway fares and something like 120m from lost bus fares. And prosecuting this would be racist, we're told. Finally property taxes go up 20% a year -- at least mine do, because that's the max allowed by NY State. If NYC were running its own affairs, I can't even imagine what would happen. They failed to implement a wider congestion charge, like they do in London and many other places, because, ahem, it, according to the Mayor, affects the poor (he said this). So now we applied a congestion charge to taxis and Ubers/Lyfts/for-hires, because the drivers are rich, right? I could go on. Finally I'll leave you with, have a look at how many new City jobs opened up and new agencies opened up in 2018. Do you really think the City can be trusted fully owning its budget?