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Will the New York City Subway be Safer in August 2010 than Last Year?


Posted on Jul 12, 2010

A report issued by the Metropolitan Transit Authority late last month found “systemic weaknesses in the adequacy of N.Y.C. Transit’s station inspection programs.”  The report found, for example, that the MTA knew about the instability of the ceiling at the 181st Street Station for several years before its August 2009 collapse and failed to do anything about it. 

The problem was first brought to the MTA’s attention during a 1999 rehabilitation project at the station – a full 10 years before the accident.  In the decade between 1999 and 2009, the majority of inspectors failed to adequately examine the ceiling.

In 2006, one inspector did make mention of the deteriorating ceiling, but repeated requests to fix it were not approved until June 2009.  Work was scheduled to begin in October 2009, but it was too late.  While no one was killed in the August 2009 ceiling collapse, the potential for serious injury existed there, at least in part, due to the inactions of the MTA.

Now, the MTA has indicated that it supports the findings of the MTA / Inspector General’s Report entitled “Improving Inspections at M.T.A. New York City Transit Stations” and will follow its recommendations.  The New York City transportation inspector general has indicated that he will hold the MTA to its word and monitor the agency’s implementation of the recommendations in an effort to make New York City’s subway system safer.

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