The story on the cover of this issue speaks for itself. But we just wanted to emphasize one piece of MTA ridiculousness. Here’s how the agency explained away the disastrous state of the city’s worst stations:
"The Transit Riders Council utilizes data collection at only 50 stations (11 percent of the system) to create a negative portrayal of New York City Transit stations."
What does that have to do with anything? Sure, there are some nice stations. But, the Riders Council is talking about the worst ones, three of the top five in the entire city happen to be in Norwood and North Fordham. It’s unconscionable that the 205th Street D station in particular is nowhere in the MTA’s capital plan.
The Riders Council did our communities a service by highlighting the decrepit state of the station for all the city to see.
We should all continue to press the MTA until it cleans up its act.
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