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Mar 29, 2008 7:48 am US/Eastern
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New Yorkers Feel Betrayed By MTA Subway About-Face
Many Say Ignoring Same Old Problems Just Par For Course
Reporting
Jay Dow
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
This week the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced it's putting off some long-promised improvements to the subway system.
As CBS 2 HD has learned, it's news that's not sitting well with those whose commutes leave them packed in like sardines.
Is packing it in on the platform a problem that can be solved or an unfortunate part of life for subway riding New Yorkers? That's the question CBS 2 HD posed to several straphangers Friday morning in Queens.
"Sometimes you can't even get on the train man, gotta wait," said Mark Brown of Queens.
And it's unclear when the platform and other issues will be addressed, especially after the MTA announced it has no choice but to delay infrastructural improvements because of financial difficulties.
"Yeah, especially how our prices just went up. We're now paying $81 a month. That's five extra dollars. I'm not sure what that went to," said Jody Pfau of Queens.
Commuters who CBS 2 HD spoke with say they've accepted the fact that this is just an old system. And outside of re-laying the tracks they're not sure there's any way to expand the platform.
"It's just part of living in the city, especially in Queens," said Coral Cumberbatch. "We have the 'R,' the 'F,' the 'E,' and the 7 train all meet here."
But Queens residents say there's an easier solution.
"If we just had more trains coming at least … as soon as you get down here you could just hop on the train," Pfau said.
Until then it's likely there will be more squeezing on than hopping on to your local subway car.
MTA managers said the improvement projects fell victim to the agency's declining real estate revenues.
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