Over a half-century of government ownership and nothing good ever came out of it. Said municipal and state government(s) forced the formerly private operators into an artificially low fare (5¢ until 1948, then 10¢ until 1953 when it went up to 15¢) that could not be sustained.
“Over a half-century of government ownership and nothing good ever came out of it. Said municipal and state government(s) forced the formerly private operators into an artificially low fare (5¢ until 1948, then 10¢ until 1953 when it went up to 15¢) that could not be sustained.”
Yes. After private compaines built the subways, the pols wanted total control, so they forced the private companies into money losing conditions. Then as the crisis the pols created took hold - the deterioration of the system - they kicked out the private companies and made the subways a government enterprise. Then when the government policies helped kill off the private commuter rail lines to the suburbs, they were made public and then all the rails and subways (other than Amtrak) in and out of New York City were merged into the MTA.
Typical of the fascist, Leftist, progressives - devise policies that create a crisis, so that you can prescribe your true intended policies for the “solution” - government takeover.