The W and Z trains will go the way of automats and guys calling strangers “Mac” if planned transit cuts gain final approval. So will free transit rides for students.
The cuts would eliminate two subway lines, create more crowding on subways and buses, and reduce frequency at off-peak hours. Service on dozens of bus lines would be reduced or ended, and disabled riders would find it more difficult to get around.
The plan would, in short, strip back some of the advances to New York City’s transit system in the past decade, and the formal announcement on Monday stirred a chorus of complaints from the city’s politicians and transit advocates, who pointed fingers at Albany, City Hall and the authority’s management.
The earliest the cuts would come would be June.
And file this one under Who Knew? Cranky White Male Clyde Haberman does some digging (Thanks, Wikipedia!) and finds out that Jay-Z got his nom de rap from a pair of subway lines.