The MBTA has responded to the Trump administration's demand for information on how it's working to make travel safer in the Boston area.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter last month to MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng, giving the agency until Thursday to explain how it is keeping passengers and workers safe and how it is paying for those efforts.

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Duffy said the federal government may redirect or withhold funding from the MBTA if it did not respond to the request. The Trump administration said funding could be on the line as it requested details on the MBTA's plans to reduce crime, vagrancy and fair evasion by Oct. 2.

In a letter to Duffy, dated Thursday, Eng pointed to progress the MBTA has made i

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