Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The MTA's Grand Design

Thanks to chief Lee Sander, the MTA now has a forty-year, multi-billion dollar vision to expand and improve transit in this town. It includes expanding subway service in Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn with new lines in under served areas (running parallel to LIRR lines) and an Air Tram to LaGuardia airport. In addition, over $20 billion would be devoted to capital improvement projects which we badly, badly need.

Well, it's about damn time that someone took charge and created a longterm design for the MTA so thank you Mr Sander. Anyone who reads this blog knows that the MTA is a pet peeve of mine, an embarassingly incompetent agency that miserably serves this town. So I have strong doubts that anything will ever really improve when it comes to the MTA. After all, how many decades have we been waiting for the 2nd Avenue Subway? Good luck Mr. Sander. You'll need LOTS of it.

MTA chief outlines program expansions in his 'State of the MTA' speech

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