[78] TBTA Ford Taurus Police Interceptor No.514 Officers killed in duty [ edit] Bridge and Tunnel Officer Thomas K. Choi was struck by a vehicle on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on October 20, 2013. I was in Flushing, Queens today and I saw about 8 Bridge and Tunnel cars parked. [39] In 1945, with the pending merger of the Triborough Bridge Authority and the New York City Tunnel Authority, the former was renamed the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. These employees can collect tolls, provide customer assistance like traffic information and direction, resolve problems that might occur in E-Z Pass lanes, handle general maintenance work, respond to traffic emergencies and provide first aid if needed. These positions require applicants to undergo training and take exams before being hired. The list age is simply for the purpose of calling to be hired. The MTA's response characterized this as part of "leakage" that is "inherent in the process for any Cashless Tolling environment. In 1998 the MTA Police Department was created by combining the Long Island Rail Road Police and Metro North Police. I go walk around the corner and they were checking and giving tickets to people on the buses. [41] The TBTA completed the construction of the BrooklynBattery Tunnel, which opened to traffic on May 25, 1950. If anything, the situation is worse now than it was pre-pandemic. TBTA "police" won't last too much longer. It is responsible for protecting all facilities and surrounding area owned by the MTA Bridges and Tunnels (formerly Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority ; TBTA), for enforcing state and city laws at all the facilities and the surrounding area, and for many non law enforcement duties, including collecting the tolls(toll collection currently being phased out to toll collectors), towing disabled and wrecked vehicles off of the roadways, and clearing snow off the roadways. The work shifts include regular daytime hours and nights, holidays and weekends. Of course they know about the list and so do we - enough to know that the TBTA job is dead and no one else will be hired. The TBTA currently has 966 Bridge and Tunnel Officers, Sergeants, Lieutenants and Captains.