Name: Why The NYC Subway Is Such A Mess
Uploaded: 2023-10-18T02:15:26.000Z
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The average number of weekday riders on New York City subways in 2019 was nearly

By June 2023, paid weekday subway ridership was 3.6

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the operator of more than 6,400 subway cars,

more than 5,700 busses, two of the country's busiest commuter trains and multiple

bridges and tunnels saw farebox revenue in 2022 plummet 37% from

If you're looking at a roughly $20 billion annual operating budget

before Covid, about half of that came from fare revenues,

when you're still missing a big chunk of your fare revenues and you have to provide the same level of

service, that obviously creates a big hole in the budget.

Remote work is blamed for much of that decline compared to their 2019 levels, Manhattan

office workers were at their desks on average 68% of the time during the mid week

Fears about public safety and crime have also impacted the city's round the clock subway

New Yorkers are on edge as violent crime throughout the city's subway system reaches new

highs. Three subway murders have been recorded in the past two weeks

Out of the search for the man who police say might have left, a subway rider partially paralyzed.

He's accused of pushing that unidentified victim headfirst into the side of a train.

I would say unfortunately, crime has been a deterrent for some people to return.

I think that folks believe that there is a safety in numbers.

A surge in people not paying their fares has impacted revenue to.

Fare evaders cost the MTA $690 million in 2022 across

its network, 38% more than the previous year.

rule following than they used to, and that includes subway fare evasion.

Also TikTok young people see young influencers jumping turnstiles in various creative

fashions and it makes it feel more socially acceptable.

You're seeing it modeled by very popular figures in social media.

The MTA is looking to replace its fleet of subway turnstiles.

CNBC got a behind the scenes look at a new high tech barrier that the agency

In the old days, you had a locking mechanism and when you paid your fare, the lock would

open and you pushed through the turnstile.

What we've done is a big departure from that.

We're leveraging not just sensor technology, but also a completely different

mechanical design, a much more formidable barrier.

Fare revenue is a critical component of the MTA's budget.

So when will New York City subway riders return?

And what can the MTA do to respond to fare evaders?

The New York City subway got its start in 1904 and was initially operated by private

The first route was built out from City Hall by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company with

The line is credited with transforming Times Square and unleashing a housing boom.

The original two private companies are called the Brooklyn and Manhattan Transit Corporation.

They made what we now think of as the lettered lines or the B division and the Interborough

Rapid Transit Company, which does what we now call the numbered lines with the A division.

By 1940, New York had three competing subway systems.

In June of that year, the trio were consolidated, creating one of the largest transit systems in the

From the early 20th century up until right before World War

Two to be rough about it, the city was focused on building and expanding and

maintaining subways seemed like mass transit was the way that people would get

But in the 50s, support for mass transit waned, with successive administrations betting on a

future of roads and highways with a focus on the car.

The subway became a symbol of urban decay in the 1970s with rampant crime and trains covered in

This subway station is the end of the line in more ways than one.

At this hour, bodies roll in, sleeping or drunk or on drugs or just because a

On an average day in 1981, 325 trains were canceled.

A third of all subway car doors were broken and trains caught on fire 2,500 times a

Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz shot four teens who allegedly threatened him in the

It's about time somebody protect themselves.

But as the crisis deepened, political consensus to rebuild the system grew.

We're not going to have a New York City left unless we rebuild the subways so early 1980s,

state legislature enacted a half a dozen taxes to fund subway and commuter

rail system and began to rebuild the physical assets get rid of the graffiti.

New York City Police Department, a decade later started to control the crime on the

In addition to that funding, the MTA proposed a ten year, $14 billion capital

investment program to restore the system and ensure its long term survival.

Between 1980 and 2015, subway ridership increased roughly

70% from about a billion to almost 1.7 billion riders.

But by 2017, overcrowded trains combined with deferred maintenance were straining the system

again, leading New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to declare a state of emergency.

You basically see a series of every 10 or 20 years the MTA faces a new fiscal crisis and then we

The eve of the pandemic subway is basically a success story.

You know, not to say that they were perfect, but only 1 or 2 murders a year on the

subways with ridership of 2 billion was the lowest you were ever going to get it

. Well funded you had half the revenue coming from fares and tolls, the other half coming from

And the infrastructure was in reasonably good condition.

As ridership plummeted to historical lows and new problems arose.

The MTA handles about a third of the nation's mass transit users, about 2.6

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