Gregory's Server"During this decade, 439 miles of new highways were built, and not one mile of new railroad or subway. In 1974, people using subways and railroads in and around New York were still riding on tracks laid between 1904 and 1933 - the last year before #RobertMoses came to power in the city. Not a single mile had been built since."
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 @Andres4NY gonna write a 1000 page bio of Pablo Escobar called The Powder Broker "But, every year after 1956, every criterion of subway performance - on-time runs, individual car breakdowns - disclosed that the toll was steadily mounting. By the late 1960s, the day of full reckoning had arrived. 17,070 runs had to be halted during a single 8mo period. 45 cars were breaking down on an average day. 40 trains were derailed in a single year." Don't even have space to describe the deaths and horrors that happened, described in the book.. "When #RobertMoses came to power in NY |
"Not only were new [subway] cars not purchased, the old ones were not repaired. It was about 1956 that there was instituted on the NYC subway system, because of lack of funds, a policy of 'deferred maintenance'. [...] So superbly engineered & maintained had the subway been previously - NY had once been enormously proud of its subways - that it took years for this systematic neglect to take its toll."
I can't even imagine what a well-maintained NYC subway even *looks* like.