The governor controls the train authority that planned and warned for years that the L train tunnel would need to be shut down for repairs after Hurricane Sandy ravaged it back in 2012. Then Governor Cuomo walked through the tunnel in 2019, and emerged with a new plan averting the shutdown and a retconned origin story about that plan. Huh?
MTA board member Veronica Vanterpool and transit reporter Aaron Gordon, who puts out the essential Signal Problems newsletter, join us to make some sense of this, and, err, break down the sorry state of our public transportation system. Plus Victoria Bekiempis on the courts, and plenty more.
