Doomsday on the MTA: What Happens If New York’S Public Transit System Runs out of Federal Aid

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Doomsday on the MTA: What happens if New York’s public transit system runs out of federal aid

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Introduction: projects a COVID-related budget gap of over $6 billion for 2021. However, HEROES has not A transit system and moved through the Senate and prospects for city on the brink additional funding are uncertain. of destruction Accordingly, the MTA now faces the prospect of a budget hole of several hundred million dollars each month. While ridership has grown some- what from the April depth of the pandemic, even COVID-19 brought financial devastation to New as offices may reopen, most New Yorkers have York’s public transit system. The Metropolitan not returned to transit. Overall, subways and Transportation Authority, which operates trains, buses are seeing 25 to 30% of pre-pandemic subways, buses, and paratransit vehicles for ridership levels. Moreover, bus fares are not nearly 40% of the nation’s riders suffered a near being collected to promote driver safety. The total loss of fare revenue and major declines in MTA’s farebox revenue is therefore still far short the toll and tax payments that subsidize transit. of normal, and toll and tax revenue remains As New Yorkers sheltered in place, the agency’s heavily depressed as well. Yet with two million already precarious $17 billion annual budget trips each day, the MTA continues to perform its began losing $1 billion each month. Meanwhile, essential function. Key service sector workers the MTA continued to move nearly one million and New Yorkers overall, the majority of whom essential workers to the pandemic frontlines do not have cars, depend on public transit. daily, 75% of them New Yorkers of color and the majority of them women. Without more federal aid, the MTA faces an imminent budget shortfall approaching fifty In March, Congress passed the $2 trillion percent. The MTA Chairman Patrick Foye has CARES Act, an unprecedented aid package that already said that the MTA “won’t survive” with- included $25 billion in federal aid to public out the additional $3.9 billion from Congress. He transit systems nationwide. CARES gave the is predicting unprecedented service reductions. MTA $3.9 billion, roughly enough to get it Should these cuts move forward, they would through four months of COVID, distributing end New York’s recovery, hamper the city’s funding according to federal aid formulas that ability to respond to a second COVID wave, and favor small and rural bus systems, rather than create such a drag on the region’s economic high ridership levels, acute need, or regional output as to negatively impact the national and dependence on transit. CARES aid began global economy. flowing in April. By late June, the MTA had spent 73% of its CARES allocation. The MTA’s CARES Dramatic MTA cuts would transform life for New money will run out entirely in July. Yorkers in a way approaching the significance of sheltering in place itself. Isolating millions in their In May, the House of Representatives passed neighborhoods, they would compromise the the $3 trillion HEROES Act, which included city’s character to an unimaginable degree, another $15 billion for transit. This time, most of rendering it difficult to recognize and woefully the transit aid was set aside for the 15 largest unlikely to recover for a decade or more. Since metropolitan areas, giving the MTA a much large majorities of subway and bus riders are larger share of the pot, again about $3.9 billion. Black and Brown New Yorkers, transit service The agency projects that HEROES would fund cuts also would inflict a severe, lasting, new its shortfall through the end of 2020. It then racial injustice. The cuts could hardly come at a

worse time, immediately on the heels of COVID’s Agency leaders could face racially disparate devastation and a resurgent movement for Black lives following several a “Sophie’s Choice,” elimi- police murders of unarmed Black Americans. nating every other subway

While the MTA has not outlined the cuts it would line from New York’s iconic make, austerity measures from a decade ago system map offer insight into a fraction of what is to come. After the Great Recession, the MTA made $400 million in total cuts, axing the V and W subway In this scenario, half of the system’s trunk lines lines and eliminating or curtailing 110 bus would be eliminated (considering frequency, we routes. In an analysis one year later, the agency count the J/Z and G as one trunk). The prece- estimated that the cuts had inconvenienced dent of the much smaller 2010 crisis shows that 15% of its riders. Within a decade, bus ridership eliminating lines entirely is a very real possibility. had fallen 25% from its recent 2008 peak. In While it is impossible to know exactly which contrast, without the $3.9 billion it needs begin- lines would be eliminated, this is one logical ning in July, the MTA would now need to impose scenario. cuts totalling $650 million per month, or about 20 times deeper than the 2010 cuts. Lines cut:

People have a hard time imagining how cuts so deep would look. So the Riders Alliance exam- ined three scenarios that cut the transit agency’s service approximately in half. Focusing on the subway, we offer a visual display of the damage that federal austerity now would inflict, followed by more context and commentary. Remaining lines: Introduction: projects a COVID-related budget gap of over $6 billion for 2021. However, HEROES has not A transit system and moved through the Senate and prospects for city on the brink additional funding are uncertain. of destruction Accordingly, the MTA now faces the prospect of a budget hole of several hundred million dollars each month. While ridership has grown some- what from the April depth of the pandemic, even COVID-19 brought financial devastation to New as offices may reopen, most New Yorkers have York’s public transit system. The Metropolitan not returned to transit. Overall, subways and Transportation Authority, which operates trains, buses are seeing 25 to 30% of pre-pandemic subways, buses, and paratransit vehicles for ridership levels. Moreover, bus fares are not nearly 40% of the nation’s riders suffered a near being collected to promote driver safety. The total loss of fare revenue and major declines in MTA’s farebox revenue is therefore still far short the toll and tax payments that subsidize transit. of normal, and toll and tax revenue remains As New Yorkers sheltered in place, the agency’s heavily depressed as well. Yet with two million already precarious $17 billion annual budget trips each day, the MTA continues to perform its began losing $1 billion each month. Meanwhile, essential function. Key service sector workers the MTA continued to move nearly one million and New Yorkers overall, the majority of whom essential workers to the pandemic frontlines do not have cars, depend on public transit. daily, 75% of them New Yorkers of color and the majority of them women. Without more federal aid, the MTA faces an imminent budget shortfall approaching fifty In March, Congress passed the $2 trillion percent. The MTA Chairman Patrick Foye has CARES Act, an unprecedented aid package that already said that the MTA “won’t survive” with- included $25 billion in federal aid to public out the additional $3.9 billion from Congress. He transit systems nationwide. CARES gave the is predicting unprecedented service reductions. MTA $3.9 billion, roughly enough to get it Should these cuts move forward, they would through four months of COVID, distributing end New York’s recovery, hamper the city’s funding according to federal aid formulas that ability to respond to a second COVID wave, and favor small and rural bus systems, rather than create such a drag on the region’s economic high ridership levels, acute need, or regional output as to negatively impact the national and dependence on transit. CARES aid began global economy. flowing in April. By late June, the MTA had spent 73% of its CARES allocation. The MTA’s CARES Dramatic MTA cuts would transform life for New money will run out entirely in July. Yorkers in a way approaching the significance of sheltering in place itself. Isolating millions in their In May, the House of Representatives passed neighborhoods, they would compromise the the $3 trillion HEROES Act, which included city’s character to an unimaginable degree, another $15 billion for transit. This time, most of rendering it difficult to recognize and woefully the transit aid was set aside for the 15 largest unlikely to recover for a decade or more. Since metropolitan areas, giving the MTA a much large majorities of subway and bus riders are larger share of the pot, again about $3.9 billion. Black and Brown New Yorkers, transit service The agency projects that HEROES would fund cuts also would inflict a severe, lasting, new its shortfall through the end of 2020. It then racial injustice. The cuts could hardly come at a

Doomsday on the MTA - Riders Alliance worse time, immediately on the heels of COVID’s Agency leaders could face racially disparate devastation and a resurgent movement for Black lives following several a “Sophie’s Choice,” elimi- police murders of unarmed Black Americans. nating every other subway

2 Doomsday on the MTA - Riders Alliance Current NYC Subway Map

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3 Doomsday on the MTA - Riders Alliance NYC Subway Map Without New Federal Funding

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The result is brutal, especially for end-of-the-line With these line closures, 163 of the system’s 424 neighborhoods in the Bronx, Queens, stations would shut down indefinitely. While the and Brooklyn instantly recognizable subway map would be utterly transformed, so too would the borough 1. Riverdale and Kingsbridge lose all subway bus maps and commuter rail lines, each of service, requiring a bus ride to the A or the 4. which would also be subject to a 50% reduction in capacity. Riders losing subway service would 2. Flushing and Corona, the epicenter of COVID, crowd scarce space on buses. Many difficult to lose all subway service, requiring bus rides to reach neighborhoods and communities would Jamaica, Kew Gardens, or Jackson Heights. be further isolated.

3. Across southern Brooklyn, the loss of B, D, F, Areas with subway access would be inundated and G service requires mile-long walks to with additional car traffic that transit cuts would remaining train lines and even longer bus rides invite. Additional driving would create more from isolated areas like Red Hook. traffic congestion, delays in emergency response times, particulate pollution that aggra- 4. The entire Upper West Side of Manhattan, vates respiratory illnesses like asthma and normally served by five subway lines, would COVID-19, and deadly and injurious collisions have just one, the local “C” train along Central between vehicles and pedestrians and cyclists. Park West.

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Alternative 1: Alternative 2: Local Only Service Subway Only Service (plus Access-a-Ride)

Essentially the MTA’s current overnight service The subway is the MTA’s most popular and plan, but with an across the board 50% frequen- efficient service, moving more than half of all cy cut: Most rush hour subway trains would riders each day. In this scenario the MTA could come every 10 or 15 minutes and most off-peak shut down its commuter rail and bus lines, while trains two to three times per hour. Buses and leaving subway operations largely intact. Due to commuter rail frequency would be cut propor- federal requirements, it would also need to tionately so that lines would keep running but operate Access-a-Ride paratransit for those service would be dangerously crowded and unable to use the subway system, which is delayed and also far less useful largely inaccessible and still requires climbing and dependable. stairs to access most stations.

For this alternative, the map is less compelling than the legend:

1. No express service 2. Rush-hour service every 10 - 15 minutes 3. Off-peak service every 20 - 30 minutes 4. Late night service restrictions apply outside of rush hour i.e. no B, C, W and 5, M, and R shuttles

The overall result is unimaginable crowding during rush hour. This would greatly increase the risk of another wave of COVID-19. Neighbor- hood-specific results include extra transfers from the East Bronx (5), Middle Village (M), and Bay Ridge (R) due to shuttle service operations off-peak.

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Conclusion: Averting the national economy. Congress must act now before it is too late to save the subway, buses, The Death Spiral trains, and paratransit New Yorkers — and by extension the nation — depend on. Before COVID, the MTA faced nearly a billion dollar budget deficit and little appetite for raising The hope for New Yorkers rests in the power of fares to cover increased costs or cutting service the New York area’s Congressional delegation. to reduce costs. Officials and advocates sought With 19 New York members of Congress and increased subsidies and new sources of reve- two Senators representing the MTA service area, nue. Agency leaders recognized that higher fares we have a large delegation that needs to priori- and service cuts would drive riders from the tize the MTA. And within that delegation we have system, losing rather than making or saving two of the most powerful elected officials in the money, and necessitating further fare hikes and country: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schum- service cuts. er, the top Democratic in the Senate, and House Democratic Caucus Chair Congressman This feedback loop is known in transit policy as Hakeem Jeffries, the fifth most powerful member a “death spiral.” While cutting cleaning and of the House. maintenance in 2018, then-New York City Presi- dent Andy Byford said: “We are very mindful of With these leaders, there is a new hope for that phenomenon and we’re trying to avoid transit after decades when the federal govern- that.” Then-MTA Board Commissioner Charles ment largely prioritized highways disproportion- Moerdler added: “That’s a self-fulfilling prophecy ately serving whiter rural and suburban commu- for sure. We’ve seen time and again, as you nities. Investing in public transit is not only an reduce buses and as you give worse service, investment in the cities and the nation’s most you’re going to have a greater problem.” Last productive regions, it’s also an advance for racial February, MTA Board Commissioner Larry justice because transit is essential to the Schwartz announced a working group to explore well-being of Black and Brown communities. It is alternative revenues to fare hikes that could long past time to reverse the racist pattern of drive riders off public transit. federal transportation policy. COVID and Black Lives Matter have together brought home how Once a death spiral begins it becomes extremely long overdue federal investment in public transit difficult to halt. The results are miserable: is. We can wait no longer for transit equity.

- Less access to jobs, education, and other institutions for transit-dependent people - More driving, with all of its negative externalities - A less efficient, affordable, and equitable city overall

Even before COVID, New York could ill afford its MTA going off the rails. Today, after the devastation the city has suffered, with all its inequities laid bare, it would be unconscionable. Austeri- ty-induced failure of such essential infrastructure would be a crime against the city and its millions of residents, and a deep, self-inflicted wound to

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