chargeorge t1_j7zgqtl wrote on February 10, 2023 at 2:47 PM

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in NYC will have $4.9B budget surplus for 2023, watchdog says by mowotlarx

The city does contribute funds to the MTA, and has probably not been committing enough funds for a while.

I’d love if we could work out a deal to fund all day 6 minute service, which I’ve seen estimates between 250-350 million dollars in extra costs per year and would dramatically improve ridership.

planning_throwaway1 t1_j808n2z wrote on February 10, 2023 at 5:50 PM

> I’d love if we could work out a deal to fund all day 6 minute service, which I’ve seen estimates between 250-350 million dollars in extra costs per year and would dramatically improve ridership.

This was literally in the MTA Capital Plan that they approved right before covid hit and blew everything up. The plan was to modernize signals on all the lines, which would do more than anything else to improve service across the whole system

Haven't heard shit about it since covid though. I believe they're still working on it but who knows

chargeorge t1_j80cf90 wrote on February 10, 2023 at 6:15 PM

I don't even think we need new capital construction to make that happen. We already run 6 minute headways for peak hours on most trains, this is just extending that frequency out all day. That estimate for costs I saw also would include busses. I would use the bus so much more if I knew I never had to wait longer than 6 minutes.