New York City’s transit system faces hundreds of millions of dollars in budget deficits in the coming years.
"Seven years ago, after a series of
subway failures so severe that a stretch of 2017 came to be known as the Summer of Hell, New York officials came up with a plan to make sure a crisis like that would never happen again. Through a tolling program known as congestion pricing, they would raise enough money to restore the system to competency. This would ward off the kind of meltdowns that had
left passengers stranded without service,
trapped themin dark, hot cars and
injured them in derailments. Now, with congestion pricing on hold, experts warn that a return to hell is inevitable. ..."
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