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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

PJMcK

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1. NYCs subway system is huge

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jan 26, 2022, 09:23 AM

Jan 2022

Consider these facts:

It has 850 miles of track, (about 200 miles are sidings and service tracks).

There are 472 stations.

It is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the seventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world and it runs 24/7/365.

In 2017, the subway delivered over 1.72 billion rides.

In 2018, it's budget was $8.7 billion.

In 2020, it's on-time rate was 89%.

It will be very difficult and supremely expensive to upgrade this system with the kind of safeguards found in other cities' mass transit systems.

I've been riding the subways in NYC since the 1970s. The service is far superior today than it was back then. There have been many improvements and the trains and stations are much cleaner than in the past. Yet it's hard to fathom how to implement the upgrades proposed.

All of that said, it's a terrific mass transit system that can take you near or far relatively quickly for under $3.00.

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