Transportation
Why Flashy Plans for LaGuardia Don't Impress Transit Advocates
If an outdated airport is “un-New York,” according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, then what’s a crumbling subway system?
A few weeks back, a group of New York City transit advocates took New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for a ride on the subway. Not the actual governor, mind you. He’s more likely to have his flesh-and-blood presence transported by an SUV than the IRT, and had ignored repeated invitations from the group, the Riders Alliance, to come on down into the nation’s largest public transportation system.
No, this was a life-size cardboard cutout of the state’s chief executive made by the Riders Alliance. They did it to drive home a point about just how oblivious the governor is to the stress and decay that riders encounter daily on city transit.