I had a feeling some of the claims MTA made were fishy. Such as “NYCT has more stations than any other subway network in the world” (Asian cities are taking a lot of NYCT world records now) https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/09/21/the-mta-capital-plan-falsifies-subway-history/
The 2025-29 capital plan is out, and it is not good. There’s an outline of an ETA report to be released soon going over issues like accessibility, rolling stock costs, and the new faregates. …
The last paragraph also stands out to me: “neither Lieber nor Torres-Springer seems interested in inexpensive fixes. No: both rate themselves by how much money they get rather than by whether it does any good…”
The 2025-29 capital plan is out, and it is not good. There’s an outline of an ETA report to be released soon going over issues like accessibility, rolling stock costs, and the new faregates. …