Uber fix the NYC Subway?

Are issues of NYC subway system be fixed by Uber?  Really?

The disrepair afflicting New York City’s subways is rightly prompting angry rebukes from straphangers who want to know why the system is failing so badly. While it is tempting to blame funding shortfalls, the reality is that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has done a poor job of getting creative to generate revenue for subway maintenance.

For example, the MTA would add tens of millions of dollars to its coffers each year if it made Uber and other ride-hail companies pay the same 50-cent-per-trip surcharge that it collects from the city’s yellow and green taxis.

Forcing giants like Uber and Lyft to pay their fair share would provide a simple and sustainable way of generating hundreds of millions of dollars for subway repairs over the years to come.

It would not be a silver bullet, but it represents the kind of all-hands-on-deck approach that New Yorkers need at a time when so many are struggling to see a light at the end of the subway tunnel.

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