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Метро в Нью Йорке накрывается медным тазом

Facing a staggering financial crisis and a stalemate in Washington, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority threatened on Wednesday to adopt a doomsday plan if it did not receive as much as $12 billion in federal aid, including slashing subway and bus service in New York City by 40 percent.
The plan paints a bleak picture for riders: Wait times would increase by eight minutes on the subway and 15 minutes on buses; Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains would run at 60- or 120-minute intervals. Upgrades to the subway’s signal systems, which have been the source of many delays, would be scrapped.
The M.T.A. — which runs the city’s subway, buses and two commuter rails — laid out the plan as part of a broader political strategy to pressure Washington to provide assistance.
The agency is facing a staggering $16.2 billion deficit through 2024, after the coronavirus pandemic wiped out its operating revenue — which comes from fares, tolls and subsidies — virtually overnight. Ridership on the subway, which plummeted by 90 percent in April, has only reached a quarter of usual levels, even as more and more New Yorkers return to work.
The plan, which transit officials have said the agency would not enact before next year, is the first detailed depiction of what the sprawling public transportation network and backbone of the New York region’s economy could look like in the wake of the pandemic and the current financial crisis.
Hallmark infrastructure projects, like extending the Second Avenue Subway into Harlem and connecting commuter trains to Manhattan’s west side at Pennsylvania Station, would be paused indefinitely. Purchasing a new fleet of electric buses and new subway cars, as well as adding elevators to stations to make them more accessible, would also be indefinitely delayed.
In addition, the agency would eliminate a widely hailed program that provides accessible vehicles on demand to paratransit customers. Fares and tolls would be raised by one percent and one dollar, respectively, above already scheduled increases in 2021 and 2023.
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Какое там строителство метро, какие там улучшения и покупка новых вагонов! Дефицит в 12 миллиардов покрывать нечем. И это не результат "плохого управления демократами", просто народ перешел на удаленку и/или потерял работу. В какой-то момент число пассажиров упало в 10 раз (на 90%). Трамп не даст городу ни копейки, штат сам доллары непечатает, а потому будет увеличение цены за проезд на доллар сверх уже оговоренной (то есть порядка 4 долларов за поездку), на 40% сократят подвижной состав метро и пригородных электричек, ну и сократят множество рабочих мест в системе. Интервалы движения будут не 5 минут в час пик, а минут так 10, а вне часа пик - в зависимости от ветки метро, до получаса. Представляю, что будет с упаковкой народа. Подозреваю что и толлы на въезд в город (у нас город на островах, из пригородов можно въехать только платно через мосты и тоннели) тоже увеличатся. Они и сейчас по 12-20 долларов за один въезд ( с транспондером и Нью Йоркской пропиской дешевле в полтора раза примерно), а будут от 20 до 30, видимо. Пропорционально подорожают все автобусы.
Tags: subway, Нью Йорк
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