The MTA is in a whole mess of BS, and they aren't readily held accountable by the city, aside from the fines. What the top heads say goes, and it won't be changing for a while. But even aside from 9/11, the subways have been in a state of constant... disorder, to put it nicely. They shell out a ton of cash to pretty up the main tourist points, while everything else gets pushed to the wayside.
It's also possible that they simply won't hurry to fix it because the tourists want their pilgrimage to the city to be rather rewarding in its partly destroyed glory.
Can you tell I'm cynical? :P
In all honestly, the only thing that can motivate MTA is publicity. But we're too busy with our own lives to really kick up some noise about how MTA isn't doing their job. And what's the point, anyway? It's nothing new.
I mean, why do you think they banned cameras in the subway? It's not because of any terrorist BS. Any to-scale map of the entire subway system, tunnels both in-use and not, can be found at a library. Full sets of blue prints, for free. The camera ban was so that people can't put out pictures of how shit dirty everything is.
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Date: 2009-08-05 07:44 am (UTC)It's also possible that they simply won't hurry to fix it because the tourists want their pilgrimage to the city to be rather rewarding in its partly destroyed glory.
Can you tell I'm cynical? :P
In all honestly, the only thing that can motivate MTA is publicity. But we're too busy with our own lives to really kick up some noise about how MTA isn't doing their job. And what's the point, anyway? It's nothing new.
I mean, why do you think they banned cameras in the subway? It's not because of any terrorist BS. Any to-scale map of the entire subway system, tunnels both in-use and not, can be found at a library. Full sets of blue prints, for free. The camera ban was so that people can't put out pictures of how shit dirty everything is.