Who’s Killing the MTA?

Millions of New Yorkers are footing the bill for a dangerous and deteriorating subway system, and politicians are refusing to confront the problem.


On any given day, millions of people who depend on New York City subways wake up and wonder how much extra time they should take to make it to their job.

“I never know if I am going to get to anything on time,” Frank Leone told the New York Times. “I give myself an hour to get to work every day, even though it only takes thirty-five minutes, and I still show up late to work.”

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is literally taking hours off of our lives each week. If you want to get a quick sense of the stress being caused to New Yorkers by public transportation, a Twitter search of #fucktheMTA should do the trick.

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