Op-ed | Funding MTA's capital plan is a New Year's resolution that must be kept | amNewYork
Briefly

"We finished that year with an average of 2.3 million weekday subway riders. Today, we are regularly hitting 4 million, even on Fridays, and last Thursday, 4.5 million riders took the subway, the most on a single day in almost five years."
"But to sustain that momentum, we need to make the same kind of investments in infrastructure. This is something I've been talking about for well over a year, since the release of MTA's 20-Year Needs Assessment."
"Thousands of customers were stranded for hours after a fire tore through a 90-year-old electrical facility. We can't let this keep happening."
"That's why we proposed a 2025-2029 Capital Plan that prioritizes State of Good Repair work, upgrades to behind-the-scenes facilities that are invisible to riders (until they aren't) but nonetheless critical to our ability to deliver great service."
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