Transportation
MTA Unveils a Plan to Fix NYC’s Aging Transit System
- Modernization needed on more than 100-year-old transit system
- Eyes Second Avenue subway extension along 125th Street
A train arrives at the Coney Island subway station in New York.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergOverhauling Grand Central Terminal’s 110-year-old train shed, replacing more than 5,000 subway and commuter rail cars, and electrifying the nation’s largest public bus fleet: These are just a few projects the Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to tackle as it faces the threat of extreme weather.
The operator of New York City’s subways, buses and commuter railroads unveiled its 20-year needs assessment, a list of initiatives to upgrade and modernize a more than 100-year-old system. The 165-page plan comes after torrential rains practically paralyzed the city’s subways last week.