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bsanchey t1_iwu9fmx wrote

Anyone cheering this I’ll just remind you the MTA moves millions of people on a daily bases. If that dies they all have to move to cars. Add 5 million more cars to streets and highways. No one will get anywhere.

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No_Helicopter_7824 t1_iwuapoj wrote

Can only the MTA manage the subway? What if they did go defunct and a new system was put in place to manage the subway. I'm just curious if that is a possibility?

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bsanchey t1_iwucjq2 wrote

The way the MTA was created was because originally each line and the busses and all that were managed by different entities. They were consolidated over time to create one unified transit agency. Theoretically you could break them up and you could have the city take over the subway. Technically NYC owns the tracks the MTA just rents them for nothing. So its possible.

Only questions are how to do that and not cut service. Once people give up on transit it’s hard to get them back.

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