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Why are they talking about moving stairs? Why is this first on the list? What is this madness? The stairs don't need to be moved. They simply need to add mo
by a-dub 9y ago
Why are they talking about moving stairs? Why is this first on the list? What is this madness? The stairs don't need to be moved. They simply need to add more brand new lines and stations and invest in infrastructure to improve reliability. That's it.
The NYC Subway is not "broken" because the stairs are in the wrong place. The NYC Subway isn't even "broken."
- beisner 9y agoMoving stairs is likely the only thing in the article that has a possibility of happening... NYC politics is broken. Nobody is willing to spend money on important projects, the incentives for politicians simply focus too much on the short term. Changing the geometry of the stations at certain bottleneck points could have a significant effect on delays caused by overcrowding. I've noticed this sort of thing during rush hour, where a train has to sit in a station for an extra few minutes as people push in.
- niftich 9y agoI'm actually happy they listed something as "trivial" as station configuration first. The list is full of things that are either politically fraught, or are already in progress and just take of a lot of time. Reconfiguring individual stations may be a big win, because they come with only a modest one-time cost (y'know, sixty-to-a-hundred million, also known in the US as "cheap"), but result in immediate and appreciable gains in particular spots. The nature of these projects makes them easy to brand, boast, and sometimes fund, and you can do them (largely) independent from other, large-scale things you have in the pipe that will take years to come to fruition.