In Boston, officials recently implemented a 30-day shutdown of one of the busiest subway lines in the country due to safety and maintenance concerns.
BOSTON, Mass. — Public transit systems across the country are reaching a breaking point, as decades of underfunding are now causing serious safety and maintenance issues leading to delays and even closures, impacting millions of people every day.
Transit advocates nationwide are saying the crisis playing out in Boston could become the new reality for millions of other Americans as aging infrastructure begins to break down. "What’s happened around the country is we’re trying to do our best to put service on the streets every day," Schipper said.
Even in cities like Denver, where the light rail was built less than 30 years ago, advocates say it's important to remember that newer transit systems are no longer brand new. Trains have a useful life of about 30 years and buses should only be on the road for 12. But decades of underfunding means cities have stretched those years out far beyond what’s often safe.
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