citiguy1

How so? Do you ride the NYC subway? The MTA is more an employment agency than an agency of change. For example, they have been working on the 2nd avenue subway, phase 1 only (a total of 3 stops) since 2007 and it's still not done. Projected completion is now December 2016. This two mile section of track is billions over budget and years behind schedule.

The article mentions the MTA has a constraint of never shutting down a line, but this conveniently ignores the fact that the B line was split into two pieces for ~ 18 years (1986-2004) while the track on the Manhattan Bridge was being reworked. The fact that it took 18 years to rework this 1 mile length of track points to the real issue, not the fact that NYC cannot accept "downtime".