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amNewYork email newsletterFrom the start, amNewYork Metro has been a paper of the commuting New Yorker, particularly subway riders. The first-ever free daily newspaper in New York City started getting handed out to straphangers by determined hawkers back in 2003, an eventful year for the city’s iconic mass transit system.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who shouldered much of the blame for the crisis, declared a state of emergency and the MTA put together a rescue proposal called the “Subway Action Plan.” The MTA also hired Andy Byford to head the subways and buses and helm the rescue plan, and the cheerful Brit so delighted New Yorkers they took to calling him “Train Daddy.” Key among the necessary fixes identified was replacing the subway’s Great Depression-era signals with modern technology.
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