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I remember reading the article linked in this one, from the Village Voice, at the beginning of this year. Strongly recommend reading it for you armchair MTA cr
by gen220 8y ago
I remember reading the article linked in this one, from the Village Voice, at the beginning of this year. Strongly recommend reading it for you armchair MTA critics: it has a lot of tinder for your tirades.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/13/the-trains-are-slower-because-they-slowed-the-trains-down/ https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/13/the-trains-are-slowe...
If my memory serves me well, it made a pretty convincing argument that the MTA was deliberately and publicly misconstruing the "slow train problem" as a result of "congestion", effectively blaming the success of the city for the failure of its public transportation. The Voice article rendered this commonly-touted line of defense not just misleading, but flagrantly incorrect.
From my perspective, it seems that the reversal of policy reported now, only came into existence because of the line of investigative reporting that began with the Village Voice piece.
Credit for your commute's speedup probably belongs, at least in part, to the Voice's fantastic investigative reporting (a full 2 months before the linked NYT piece). Even more reason to support your local journalists! :)
- yostrovs 8y agoToo late for the Village Voice. It has been effectively shut down. Will there be any real reporting left once Google and Facebook are finished organizing the world's information?
- yahelc 8y agoThe piece explicitly credits them: > Workers have also started to replace faulty signals that trigger a train’s emergency brakes at low speeds, a problem investigated by The New York Times and The Village Voice that has also led to slower service.