NY metro is a very real mess. Were it a uniform mess it had been already modernized, automated and in general de-messed. NYC suffers from the fact that it's cu

NY metro is a very real mess. Were it a uniform mess it had been already modernized, automated and in general de-messed. NYC suffers from the fact that it's currently in a local minima and no one wants to put up the insane amounts of money that would be needed to modernize the system. Sure, some parts are getting modernized, but it just means you'll have the same mismatch of various parts in a big ball of track. (The "tragedy of the anticommons" - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/29/penn-station-robert-caro-073564 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/29/penn-stati... )