New York – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has unveiled a plan to improve service and clean up New York City’s subway system.
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MTA officials announced Monday that the plan includes improving tracks and signals and adding a night cleaning staff. Interim MTA Director Ronnie Hakim says the blueprint to improve services includes reorganizing the agency’s leadership structure.
Rapid response teams tasked with fixing track and other equipment problems will be formed, while the delivery of 300 new subway cars is being moved up.
The agency also plans to add emergency medical technicians to aid sick passengers and cut down on train delays.
Hakim says the first section targeted for improvement is the Eighth Avenue corridor from 125th Street in Harlem to Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan.
The overhaul comes after a series of major service disruptions over the past month.
Blah,Blah Blah…..Raise tolls,taxes,water & sewer to pay for all the wonderful improvements ….and all will stay the same .
Are they planning to clean only Manhattan as usual?
Bring back the X-29 Express Bus, that was eliminated largely because it served Heimishe Olam.
The only thing that the MTA will improve will be the pockets and pensions of its employees. I remember when Mayor Wagner promised us additional protection and security on the subways. The year was 1965, and Wagner’s plan was announced after the NY Daily News ran months of stories of heinous crimes taking place on the subways. Finally, in Feburayr, 1965, Wagner, to his credit promised that one armed transit cop would ride every single subway train in NYC, from 8PM-4AM. In addition, another armed transit cop would also be stationed on every subway station during that time period. Wagner kept his promise, and the above security was in effect for nine years. Unfortunately, when Abe Beame was Mayor, the above security was removed, in 1974. Things have gone downhill ever since.
They need a deep cleaning staff who move from station to station. Power wash all surfaces, remove all garbage on the platform & tracks and them move on to the next station. Also, at the end of every line, a full crew who thoroughly cleans the insides of the trains, not just 1 person who does a quick sweep – if there is time before it turns around. This would clean up the subway.
Then a station repair crew who do the same – fix & repair every station as needed, besides from the regular station maintenance staff.
Then reintroduce the MTA Police – not the NYPD and add an MTA medic staff to that crew who would be dispersed throughout the network.
This would create many more productive jobs – you just need to get rid of 1 or 2 levels of management and it will pay for itself.
The NY Transit Police, did a good job of law enforcement on the subways. However, the NYPD disliked them, as well as the NYC Housing Police. The NYPD eventually took over both functions, and both the Housing Police and the Transit Police were abolished. The NYPD does not patrol the subways, as the Transit Police used to. Don’t believe the bubba meises about very little violent crime on the subways. The politicians will tell us anything, to save dollars.