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By the Editorial Board @ NYTimes.com, March 26
New York City’s subway struggles are not only ever-present — they appear to be getting worse, according to data that show the system’s on-time performance sinking to a new low in January. Under normal circumstances, this might prompt public servants, seeing the exasperation of their constituents, to act or at least propose changes. Not in New York State government, though. Here, the lawmakers who control the subways through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority continue to twiddle their thumbs.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators appear to have hit an impassein their negotiations about a congestion-pricing plan that most experts agree represents the best hope of coming up with the billions of dollars needed to repair and upgrade the subways and regional transit services more broadly [....]
Comments
This easily gets across what happened last year, a compilation with pix and tweets and the like
MTA WTF: A visual timeline of the subway’s epic 2017 meltdown
It’s been a heckuva year on the NYC subway
@ NY.curbed.com, Jul 17, 2017
since then, mho, it's been all "jerry rigging" all the time, and as usual NYers just make do and adjust by doing things like using Uber, and getting tireder and angrier and meaner than they were before because of worse traffic and noise and longer messier and more miserable commutes
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 1:57am
Maybe they could talk to the person most responsible for digging the DC area metro system out of its deep operational and public relations hole, its general manager Paul Wiedefeld: https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20180326/28185293911...
I've respected this guy from the start. He's had the guts to shut down parts of the system at times to do necessary maintenance and repairs that had been put off and created real danger.
by AmericanDreamer on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 2:40pm