It was going to take effect earlier this year but Hochul reneged in the summer only to reverse course again after the results of the Presidential election.

I remain somewhat skeeptical about NY fixing the subway and making it safer as they have shown no ability to do so over my thirty plus years in the city. I would add they should do just as much for the LIRR and other train service as well as they have similarly worsened over that period.

I have long thought that anyone who tries to make an argument for the good of public transporation has never spent any time in New York using it. I'm relatively certain that people only use the LIRR because the alternative is swimming between Queens and Manhattan. Every argument you make in your article is a good one and a rational one but any New Yorker whose spent their lives trying to navigate these systems knows all too welll its the BEST argument for car ownership. The roads shouldn't be for the rich and the subways shouldn't be for the poor. We need to reduce traffic and travel time, create safer streets and cleaner air and all of that would be provided if mass transporation could improve. The thing is that IF runs up against the realities that I and so many other New Yorkers have had to deal with.

As someone who uses the subways and trains exclusively to get around this won't effect me and it can only help me. I hope you're right. The realist in me, though...