Yes, just like the extension on the Q line is very interesting - you have to take three escalators down to get on a train - as you would do in London. That’s the place to be if there is ever an attack, lol! I haven’t been on the 7 to see what you’re talking about but I imagine it is similar. Graffiti has been gone from the subways for years. It’s a good system. My only problem is the crowding and the poor announcement system that can’t be heard or understood. You’d think they’d fix that!
We’re probably the only fans of the subways of NYC on FR.
The No. 7 at Grand Central...I could almost do the daily times crossword in the time the escalator reached the top.
The underground passage from Grand Central to Times Square was like Dante’s descent into the bowels of hell.
“We’re probably the only fans of the subways of NYC on FR.”
LOL
I would not chose to call myself a “fan”. But I respect what the MTA has managed to do with a system with an infrastructure that is more than a century old, with all the NYC and New York state politics they must maneuver around, with a fare system with rates that satisfy the politicians while remain too law to cover all costs and thus require politically approved taxpayer subsidies. I also respect them for as much of the whole system they have managed to improve since I first experienced it.
A lot of what still ails the MTA are things that ail all infrastructure in NYC - excessive costs due to excesses permitted to the unions, as well as financial and mob-related contractors corruption. Minus all of that that is systemic to all of NYC, I think the MTA would have made even greater improvements than what they did manage to accomplish. For those that think the NYC subways are so bad compared to newer subways systems they’ve seen, they need to remember building new from scratch will always make a more modern anything, and NYC does not have the luxury of doing that.