Fare comment: after a bumper year closing deals in 2002, and faced with the prospect of a freeze on capital spending this year, what has the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYMTA) got up its sleeve for 2003? Rob Sheridan talks to NYMTA finance director Kimberley Paparello and special counsel Jerome Page. (Treasury profile: NYMTA)

Having leased over $2 billion worth of assets in 2002, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority is certainly no stranger to the leasing market. Last year, it closed service contracts [...]