MTA reports some Subway improvements, but service is still ‘in cardiac arrest’
Andy Byford, the new head of MTA, insists that subway service is getting better. But most straphangers, citing crumbling concrete, rodents, floods and delays, dispute that, according to The New York Times.
The disparity may be due to the fact that “major incidents,” the type of meltdowns that delay 50 or more trains, have dropped about 11.7 percent compared with 2017, the Times reported. Also, the distance that subway cars travel between breakdowns was about 122,000 miles last month, slightly up from about 117,000 miles a year earlier. However, everyday delays are still extremely common — only about 68 percent of trains were on time this past summer, the Times said.
“Our subway system is in cardiac arrest and you’re doing everything you can to stabilize it, but the reality is we need a heart transplant,” Scott Rechler, an MTA board member, said at a recent meeting.
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