While looking for more information, I found this article [1] which gives more detail into the costs of the MTA compared to other cities. Regarding operator effi

While looking for more information, I found this article [1] which gives more detail into the costs of the MTA compared to other cities. Regarding operator efficiency: > The number of annual revenue car-miles per subway employee in New York was 14,000 in 2010. In Chicago this number is somewhere between 14,000 and 16,000 ... On Tokyo’s Metro, the comparable figure is about 18,500. [1] https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/13/16455880/new-york-subway-mta-operating-cost-analysis https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/13/16455880/new-york-subway-mt...