Mobilizing the Region
Issue 274 June 19, 2000


Green:More Service, Best Subway Safety Plan


At a press conference last weekend, NYC Public Advocate Mark Green urged NYC Transit to add more rush hour subway service. Green linked concern over recent subway platform pushing incidents to subway system overcrowding. Investigation by Green found:

· MTA subway car purchase plans will offer minimal service increases between today and 2005.

· The worst rush hour train is the G, which only runs once every 11 minutes.

· Critical subway lines like the 2, 3, D, N, R and others run only every 6-10 minutes at rush hour.

Green called on NYC Transit to add rush hour service on many lines, and on the MTA to increase subway car purchases, delay retiring cars slated for the scrap-heap and accelerate work on the 2nd Avenue subway.

Green said other world-cities like Tokyo, London, Paris, Moscow and Mexico run rush-hour trains on much tighter headways than New York.


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