NYC Subway Problems
This cluster discusses the challenges facing the New York City subway system (MTA), including frequent delays, high maintenance costs, 24/7 operations, union influences, funding issues, and comparisons to transit systems in other cities like Boston, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
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Here is 2017 article from NY to get an idea.https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-mta-subway-delay-2017-6
The chief of the MTA doesn’t agree with you.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/nyregion/subways-new-york...
Here's a nice summary of NY issues with this:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
NYC subway system has over double the stations of Boston and San Francisco combined. All of which in a densely populated city, and operating 24 hours a day. Doing any work in NYC costs huge amounts of money. Many of the BART and MBTA are in suburban density areas as well, unlike the NYC system that does not enter suburbs or Staten Island.
This is true for NYC subways too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9jIsxQNz0M
A week ago, at the stop nearest me, the E train uptown was re-routed. The C train had an 18 minute wait (the next one after that -- 19 minutes). The station was somewhere north of 100 degrees F and packed. As the trains were one floor below the turnstiles, these issues were only visible AFTER swiping $3(A) to get into the station. The escalator was broken too, which is fine for me but bad for many others.Meanwhile, I am already paying one of the highest state and local taxes in the nation. Bu
Counterpoint: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/04/15/the-subway-is-...
Part of it is New York's system is much older than the rest of your examples, Tokyo didn't really expand beyond a single tunnel till 50s-60s, Beijing opened in the 60s and Shanghai only started construction in the mid 80s. Then on top of that the city of New York isn't actually in charge fully so (like just happened) if they try to do something disruptive but critical the governor can come and derail the whole plan. I don't mean to say it excuses the mismanagement but it does
I'll take the New York Subway system any day over what Boston has (MBTA).
NYC is a very rich city. NYC can definitely afford a better subway.People come to the voting stations and pick the candidate with the most important agenda for them. Obviously, the NYC subway does not seem to be the largest issue.If you want to blame rich people for that, well, welcome to the USSR.