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Why We Hate the Subways

“Traveling on the New York subway system is now one of the more frightful experiences Western civilization has to offer on a regular basis. The experience is not only intolerable. It is also a daily advertisement for the brutish sensibilities and shallow brainpans of the people who now control the city.”

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Monday Morning’s Subway Mess Was Caused by an MTA Typo

Construction shouldn’t have caused the D/N/R lines to melt down during rush hour, but it did

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We Can’t Tell If the Subway Action Plan Worked, Which Was the MTA’s Whole Idea

For all Joe Lhota’s plan offered in dollar figures, it lacked any hard, fact-checkable promises

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Maybe We Didn’t Need the Second Avenue Subway After All

The latest ridership numbers show that the MTA spent more than $300,000 for each new daily straphanger attracted by Cuomo’s much-heralded Upper East Side line

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Yes, Those Are Zipcar and Enterprise Logos on Parking Signs

The creeping corporatization of public space continues, this time via a DOT car-share parking program

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An Elegy for the Sublimely Crappy Chambers Street Subway Station

The soon-to-be made-over stop may be decrepit, but at least it’s honest about the state of the city

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Borough Hall Ceiling Collapse Shows How Badly Subway Is Deteriorating

The MTA and DOT have been squabbling over which stations are most in need of repair, but Borough Hall wasn’t on either agency’s priority list

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Why Are There So Damn Many Ubers?

Taxi medallions were created to manage a Depression-era cab glut. Now rideshare companies have exploited a loophole to destroy their value.

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Why Do Some Parts of New York Have So Many Subways While Others Have None?

In a word: history

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How Screwed Will Your Subway Line Be by the L Train Shutdown? F/G Edition

There will be more and longer G trains running in 2019, and that’s bad news for the F

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