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How would you fix the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York if you were in charge? Do you know that plenty of people in NYC evade the fares and don't actually pay fares? They jump the turnstiles.
In the Giuliani-Pataki era, Giuliani/Pataki/Safir/Kerik would probably order NYPD officers on patrol to arrest you.
Keeping the bums and non-payers out would be a start but it wouldn't really help all that much. The system needs to be basically rebuilt, signals, trains (or at least train controls in the newer ones), stations, all of it, so it can actually go at a reasonable speed.
There is nothing wrong with MTA. As long as cost of living, fixed, variable costs go up, MTA will always need more money. When they cant obtain, they have to cut workers, services. That leads to crap services, crap maintenance, etc, etc. As long as the wealth disparity grows so will all our problems not only the MTA. If people jump turnstiles, we can simply install jump proof turnstiles, but no money.
clamp down and prosecute fare evasion, vote in a sane guilani or bloomberg type that has a vision for infrastructure and law and order, beg for federal money, increase automation and encryption (don't want Red china and putin taking over subways by hacking), and educate people to keep the subway clean. Also, have the MTA buy key pieces of real estate to rent out like hong kong does. Audit the mta!
- Cancel all capital projects (east side access, 2nd ave phase II, all station renovations)
- Cut new train car orders by half
- Buy out / Fire 25% of the MTA union workers
- Hire a fortune 500 company to replace all the antique signals with digital equipment
- Increase the speed limit to 50-60 mph almost everywhere in the system
I agree with getting rid of the unions but that won't happen so the problems with the MTA will never be fixed. 20, 50, 100 years from now, it will be the same story.
Get rid of the MTA and start from scratch. Privatize the system.
I agree with getting rid of the unions but that won't happen so the problems with the MTA will never be fixed. 20, 50, 100 years from now, it will be the same story.
Something like 20% of the workers under contract have nothing to do and get shuffled around doing busy work or standing around. The MTA needs to fire whoever they can for cause and fight the union, offer buyout packages, and take a hard negotiation at the next contract renewal. Stop bending over for unions. They are professional extortionists, if you're a bad negotiator then hire someone who can do it for you
Stop building/expanding overpriced subway lines and stop spending billions of dollars to build single subway stations (think Fulton Street). Also, make MTA employees contribute more to their retirement plans.
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