Transit boosters called on Governor Kathy Hochul to better fund the MTA so New York City subways and buses can operate every six minutes.
Photo by Kevin DugganSunday, urging the governor to divert more state funding to the MTA in the state budget.
“Without six-minute service, I have to plan excessively for every essential trip, and my weekly shopping just becomes a long day of waiting for buses, and trains, and chokeholds, and transfer points,” said East Harlemite Ariel Smallwood. “A life without six-minute service just makes being spontaneous a luxury.”
“That’s what the governor doesn’t understand: Missing a train or bus, and the next one comes in 15 minutes or more, could mean not having a shelter for the night,” she said. to improve riders’s experience during those days, when transit officials often schedule upgrade and repair work causing outages.due to illness, retirements, and a hiring freeze during the pandemic, triggering longer wait times for commuters as the agency had to cancel trips.
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