No_Helicopter_7824 t1_iwuapoj wrote on November 18, 2022 at 12:11 PM

Reply to comment by bsanchey in Impending fiscal cliff ‘will destroy MTA’ without state aid: watchdog by LunacyNow

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?

bsanchey t1_iwucjq2 wrote on November 18, 2022 at 12:31 PM

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.