With the transit system in New York City in constant crisis over a
sustained period of time, from delayed trains underground to
ever-dropping bus speeds on the streets, the question of how exactly to
fix mass transit has been on the minds of elected and appointed
officials, advocates and analysts, and, of course, frustrated commuters.
In the aftermath of the short-term Subway Action Plan, the effectiveness of which was somewhat difficult to quantify
and apparently underwhelming, officials are trying to focus on how to
provide more long-term physical and fiscal stability for the beleaguered
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
While the ambitious plan to upgrade train signals, bus routes, and
MTA spending practices that MTA New York City Transit president Andy
Byford has called Fast Forward seems to be a universally agreed-on blueprint
to improve city transit, how the plan gets funded and implemented is
somewhat more muddled thanks to political disagreements between state
and city leaders.
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Source: Gotham Gazette (via Empire Report New York)
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