Of course they do. They are the single least efficient transit agency in the entire world. Transparency is embarrassing.

> New York is the city that can’t, in the state that can’t. It treats a three-station subway expansion as a generational project. It clings to its way of doing things in face of obvious evidence that this way does not work; when it wants to do something different, it privatizes the state to consultants and huge design-build contractors, which has consistently raised costs wherever it is implemented. It’s not even aware of how success looks. Its leadership is rather like a Russian general who, seeing the army throw countless soldiers to take individual blocks of Bakhmut, population 70,000, insists things are going great and there is no need for anyone to learn anything about NATO standards, before ordering another wave of assault.

Harsh but fair

I won’t pretend to understand the full nuance of what is no doubt a very complex issue, but as somebody who rides the trains every day, I can say that our public transit is shockingly bad for what is supposed to be the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the world. My impression from a few years of daily riding is that our trains are generally disgusting, inefficient, and probably badly mismanaged.

Congratulations you've got eyes and awareness.

The knee jerk response "well that's new york for you" has grown tiresome and thankfully the populace is waking up to it.

Welcome to a great, diverse city with a million stories otherwise.

We literally blow hundreds of millions on nothing.

The budget grows and grows and for what? No extra service? No new lines? Oh wow! They’re deep cleaning 20 stations of the 472 in NYC! The first time in like 20 years or some shit?

“Guard rails to the tracks will cost seven hundred billion million quadrillion heptillion dollars because blahblahblah greased wheels and deals and “making things happen”

Sorry how much did the MTA charge in overtime hours?

How about that one official who billed for more OT hours than THERE ARE IN A FUCKING YEAR???

The leadership that siphons money from the people of NYC should be dragged through the streets.

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We need to force the MTA to release itemized invoices for every contract it signs as a condition of congestion pricing. No more no-strings-attached funding for the MTA.

> They are the single least efficient transit agency in the entire world

Don't forget about the corruption. Transparency is also bad for corruption.

My train gets delayed almost everyday for the W to change tracks at Whitehall.

This is a known event. Surely some planning and process could make this an exception and not the rule.

Not in NYC. Basic stuff is impossible.

>The knee jerk response "well that's new york for you" has grown tiresome and thankfully the populace is waking up to it.

I want to pull my hair out when people use that as a scapegoat for people/places/things being shitty in this city.

We got a taste of what Public Transit in this City could be under Byford, but Cuomo didn’t like being “outshined” and forced him out. We deserve better than our public transit being held hostage by the cronies of whoever is in the governors office

Same at rector, they send 3 W trains in a row every day right around 5pm, they have to wait for the train at whitehall to turn around and leave before they can enter. Who thought this was a good idea?

Put the MTA on trial.

Ironically I believe the repaired the tunnel between Whitehall and court and the tracks there are buttery smooth.

All state authorities hate transparency.

And is everyone aware that the NYC Department of Design and Construction is trying to sneakily become an Authority right now and have that shoved into the budget? Because somehow that'll make construction cheaper and faster when ALL evidence points to the contrary when we sell city agencies to the state?

Obviously, they are a government agency that wastes billions of dollars. Most than most nations

Nothing? Unions take offense to that. It GOES to the hardworking union bosses who convince the uneducated about their work, while golfing and/or taking multiple no show jobs.

This cup of orange juice is delicious

Bro idgaf ab how bad new york's subway is I'm just happy we have a subway system that's as good as it is.

Transparency you say? Explain to me how they will pay millions for a couple of elevators

they should do electronic contract bidding so no personal contact happens . It s all solved in many countries , even Russia does electronic bidding. What about compensation , I heard conductors from metro north are making over 250k with overtime

LIRR conductors are worse. The agency spends an average of $200k per conductor on salary and benefits, and the job literally involves you walking up and down the train and scanning fucking QR codes. A local moron off the street can do that job.

The MTA should install fare gates on commuter railroads, downsize the conductor workforce, and use the remaining conductors to spot check... even with the fare beating increase it'll save money over paying people to do the same work.

Being better than the rest of the USA is almost the lowest bar you could possibly set. Mediocre, decaying and filthy infrastructure is not going to keep NYC competitive into the future- we're basically just coasting on successes from generations ago, at this point. It can't (and won't) last

well no shit i know we can improve by a lot but I'm just saying there's no reason to be bitching like everyone else here, and you

Nah nothing will ever improve without even trying to hold people accountable for the system they're running. Standards need to be higher here

Welcome to America, a country centered around CARS

When you have entities like MTA then the worst car centric city is better

MTA corrupt to the core, an agencies that spend taxpayers money should be scrutinized and sorry to break to you but NYC subway is dogshit when compared to other developed countries and yet we spend most money than anyone.