If you've noticed you're waiting longer for the subway, you're not alone. Ridership is growing, and that means longer on the platform—but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is devising ways to address the problem. NY1's Jose Martinez filed the following report.
It's a big city that's getting bigger, with more than a million people expected to move here over the next 20 years.
With subway ridership at its highest levels in more than half a century, what's the transit system to do?
"We will be in deep doo-dads if we are not in a position to give people the kind of service that they expect," says Charles Moerdler.
New Metropolitan Transportation Authority statistics show that on weekdays, riders are waiting longer for trains on every line except the N, Q and R.
"You can only fit so many sardines in a sardine can. We've reached that point. And we'll reach it beyond the breaking point in the not too distant future."
Annual ridership last year shot up to 1.7 billion for the first time since 1949, a number likely to keep rising.
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