Here's how NYC subway service could suffer now that congestion pricing is effectively dead
threatens $15 billion in funding for transit construction projects, raising the possibility New York City’s subways could fall into a state of disrepair and sending service back to the bad old days.
State lawmakers passed congestion pricing in 2019 in response to the “Summer of Hell” two years prior, when commuters faced seemingly constant service delays. The law required the tolls to bring in $1 billion annually, which in turn would finance $15 billion of loans to pay for transit construction projects. In the ensuing years, the MTA planned an array of transit construction projects that depended on that revenue.
In February, MTA officials released a report stating that without the funding, the agency “runs the risk of falling behind on repair work necessary to update aging infrastructure and assets critical to the reliability of the system.”. The MTA froze its plans to upgrade 90-year-old signals in Brooklyn and Manhattan that direct trains on the city’s two most unreliable subway lines: the C and the F.
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