> But the biggest lifeline arrived in April, when Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers agreed to include new and recurring funding for the M.T.A. in the state budget.
The MTA doesn’t need more money. At least not yet. It needs a complete and total overhaul in all aspects so it’s no longer the least efficient transit agency in the entire world.
When it costs absolute bullocks to actually build/revamp any sort of infrastructure, I’d say it’s kinda hard to level up the quality to other cities’ levels.
Hochul just got a bunch of funding through:
> But the biggest lifeline arrived in April, when Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers agreed to include new and recurring funding for the M.T.A. in the state budget.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/nyregion/mta-nyc-subway-s...
And the mayor doesn't really have any power - although I haven't seen anything to suggest that Adams is anti-transit.
Cuomo did fuck up a good thing with Andy Byford. But fuck that guy