articles and videos looking at New York City, and the infrastructure and policy decisions needed to make subway systems work
The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, belie...
Map credit to Robert Schwandl at UrbanRail.net for the Shanghai and New York MapsThe map above shows the difference in growth between the Shanghai ...
How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York.
Disruptions and delays have roiled the system this year. But the crisis was long in the making, fueled by a litany of errors, a Times investigation...
We asked experts what they thought it would take to improve New York City’s subway system. Here are six suggestions.
The tragedy of the Second Avenue Subway.
Think Penn Station is bad? Let’s go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath.
It is relatively easy to come up with a database of urban rail lines and their construction costs per kilometer. Construction costs are public numb...
Never ask a wireless engineer working on the NYC subway system “What can go wrong?” Flooding, ice, brake dust, and power outages relentlessly attac...
Every day 300,000 people take the L train to and from work. I am not sure if that is 300,000 people or 150,000 people going in and out, but either ...
Internal MTA documents show everything we thought we knew about subway delays was wrong
Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent 40 years illustrating subway stations–and revealing their forgotten histories.
Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway’s progress, leading to its present crisis. This is the story, decade by decade...
One recently won metro of the year; the other declared a state of emergency. How did two such similar transit systems end up on such different trac...
From congestion pricing to rezoning, there are all kinds of ways to tap New York City’s vast wealth to fund transit improvements.
New York City subways have the worst on-time performance of any major rapid transit system in the world. This is the story of how the city ended up...
If you frequent the New York City subway’s 4, 5, 6 line, you’ve probably seen the new terminals at a variety of stations like Union Square and Gran...
Chicago’s subway has also been plagued by crumbling tracks, antiquated signals and unreliable trains. Here is how it turned around.
In both New York and London, core office districts have been empty for half a year. Both cities face a long, hard slog of recovery. But London has ...
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