The Subway Crisis

New York City's subway system faces it greatest challenge in decades.

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January 31, 2005, 6:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Years of underfinancing and borrowing have left the system on the threshold of a crisis...Computerizing the whole system will be so costly and take so long that it seems more like a dream than a solution. The urgent challenge now is much more basic: to get the financing from Albany to save what we've got."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Saving the Subways

Sunday, January 30, 2005 in The New York Times

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