Increasing ridership, coupled with decreasing service, means a very crowded subway system in New York City.
"The Metropolitan Transportation Authority hasn’t been able to run enough trains to keep up with a growing number of riders," according to an article by Andrew Tangel.
The subway carried 1.76 billion riders last year, a 12% increase since 2009, when the last recession ended, according to the MTA. At the same time, Federal Transit Administration data show subway trains ran 345.4 million miles in passenger service last year, down 2% from 2009.
Tangel quotes Peter Cafiero, chief of operations planning for the MTA’s New York City Transit division, for the story, to describe a subway system that is completely constrained by technology and infrastructure limitations. Tangel notes that switching to an advanced signal system (i.e., communications-based train control) "will likely take decades and cost billions of dollars," though it would also "allow the MTA to safely run more trains an hour."
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