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Although at least 177 transit workers have died of COVID-19, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority is prioritizing an increase in ridership.
Federal Highway Administration officials have told the mass transit agency they would fast-track an environmental review process.
SHARE: When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority made the decision in April to end 24/7 subway service in New York City, the reasoning was to allow for the deep disinfecting of subway cars and stations as the pandemic raged in the city – and as part of an effort to keep homeless New Yorkers from sleeping on trains. But nearly a year into the pandemic, these kinds of cleaning efforts have been dismissed by some experts as “hygiene theater,” noting that the spread of the coronavirus largely happens by airborne transmission, and not surface transmission. To boot, the closures don’t ...