Welcome to #car #murica. Out of fear car drivers could vote Trump and fear of "inflation" #Hochul stopped the congestion pricing before it started. Car drivers always win even in the densest metropolitan area of the US.
Result: All #MTA modernization stopped and dramatic cuts to maintenance of trains and tracks. We all know where this heads to. But "the car user as voter from the suburbs wanting to DRIVE to Manhattan!!!one!!! eleven"...
The potential budget hole is so deep that If the MTA cut every new train car, locomotive or bus out of its current capital plan the transit agency would still be in the hole for remaining repair co…
#nyc #nyct #nyctsubway #subway 1949. The Floyd Bennet field is still used back then and the #Idlewild Airport. The Rockaways didn't even have a rail link yet! That came later as a special fare posh line...
1940 was the year of the unification of the three private transit companies to a NYC owned system.
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