There's tons of work to be done to make it a modern system competitive with other nations in terms of technology, cleanliness, speed, etc., but it's not to the level of unsafe and falling apart. I'm just a little defensive because this is exactly how people who want to gut transit describe it, and its over-sensationalized.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Just because it's functional doesn't mean it's not a dilapidated shithole. There's so many trains and routes in the subway that are one bad day away from 6 months of shutdown for maintenance, including some critical bottlenecks between the outer boroughs and Manhattan, and the MTA would rather spend hundreds of millions on security theater.

I love living in a place where public transit is a legitimate option, but much like the bridge in Baltimore I'm just waiting to see the whole thing collapse under it's own weight while the rich fucks in charge just shrug their shoulders and inform us it'll be $20 billion into their pockets and 15 years to get 40% functionality back.