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NY1 has learned that the station agent caught on camera seeming to be napping on the job has put in his papers for retirement. Transit officials launched an investigation after a rider ­­-- who said he had seen him sleeping several times at the City Hall station -- sent the picture into NY1.

The case may be closed, but the transit union says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its chairman are to blame, forcing agents to work too much overtime.

"I'm not defending anybody's behavior. I'm pointing out that he worked 33 days in a row, and was 69 years old. And he would never had been able to work those 33 days in a row had Jay Walder not gone down this unnecessary road of laying off hundreds of station agents," said Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen.

The latest group of about 200 workers is set to turn in their badges and uniforms this Friday.

In the strange world of transit financing these days, it seems that everyone -- the MTA, the state comptroller, even the system's largest union -- agrees that overtime costs need to be put under better control. But just like the weather, there doesn't seem to be much anybody can do about it.

"We understand that this needs to be an agreement between all parties, the state, the city, the union and the MTA. And when they are not working together, we see that very painful decisions are being made," said Veronica Vanterpool of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

The pain of the cutbacks has fueled an increasingly personal TWU assault on MTA Chairman & CEO Jay Walder. The union says his Central Park West condo and a vacation home in the South of France show he's out of touch.

"It's very difficult work destroying New York City's mass transit system. We should give the guy a break," Samuelsen said. "He deserves a little time in the South of France while the rest of New York is suffering from his actions."

Walder, who grew up in the Rockaways and attended public schools, has acknowledged how the cuts hurt New Yorkers. But the MTA says it has had no easy choices after a shortfall in state aid, adding, "We made an offer to the TWU that would have averted scheduled layoffs of station agents and reduced our long-term costs, but the offer was rejected."