Cutting off subway service during the hours when there are few riders—and when lots of repair work could be done—is one of the smaller ideas in the Regional Plan Association’s sweeping fourth regional plan.
During the 2017 campaign, the candidates for mayor have each highlighted a few transportation issues. Advocates say a much longer list of transit challenges and decisions will confront whoever is in City Hall come January 1.
‘The reality is that both the millionaire’s tax and the congestion pricing proposal have merit—but the mayor’s specious argument that congestion pricing is regressive does not.’
And guess what? It’s time to register for the 2018 party primaries.
The mayor says it is, and that’s a reason why he wants to fund transit improvements with a millionaire’s tax instead.
So why have elected officials let it molder and fall apart?
‘Forecasts tell us that an additional 2 million people could be added to our region over the next 28 years, adding millions of daily passenger trips by bus, rail rapid transit, commuter rail, ferries and private vehicles.’
Hoping to explain the rash of subway delays, the media often rely on a study funded by two corporations that later took contracts with the MTA to work on the very problem they diagnosed. Both firms are linked to bribery prosecutions.
‘You knew it had become a full-blown issue when Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo began sniping at one another through the press over whose fault it all was.’
A regional roadmap for federal transportation funding forecasts that by 2045, the metro area will see a million more transit trips every day and a doubling in the amount of freight passing through.
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