NEW: Why does it cost $100 million to put elevators into a subway station? Which became an exploration of what all is in those projects. Which became an exploration of how and why the MTA's old and bad planning pathologies continue to persist: www.curbed.com/article/subw...
They’re taking a huge bite out of the MTA’s budget.
@rmtransit.bsky.social have you seen anything about this sort of overly-expensive station retrofit in NYC?
Went to a Canadian Tire store last week, they had an escalator for shopping carts.
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Fare evaders?
I'll want to read this 📌 Worth a bookmark for later reference.
One thing about traveling overseas is seeing all the small and simple elevators that are common everywhere else but missing in the US for "reasons." I bet some of the same reasons apply to why metro elevators cost $100 million and apartment elevators must be big enough to drive a truck into.
Because everyone definitely wants to talk about ~e~l~e~v~a~t~o~r~s~ today
Can you say more about this? “Albany needs to address the consequences of its actions and explicitly give the MTA room in its budget to bring these functions back in-house.” Does the MTA not have the ability to do this now absent legislation? Or are you just suggesting that Albany could prod MTA…
Great read & framing here! Educational to me and many others I'm sure esp re factors beyond MTA staff control re these ballooning costs A little discouraging when solutions must be found in Albany however...