If New York City ends its leases with the MTA and takes over its mass transit, two enormous negatives will be jettisoned immediately. First, state officials, who don’t live in NYC and who know nothing about it, will be removed from the decision making process. Second, the City will finally be liberated from the MTA’s suffocating fog of pessimism.

In any discussion of subway expansion, the MTA wails about cost and the lack of funding to such an extent that anyone who even suggests expansion is quickly branded a dreamer or a gadfly. Never mind that the City desperately needs subway expansion. Never mind that money always seems available for suburban projects, hi-tech extravaganzas and beautification efforts in wealthy neighborhoods. I have to wonder whether MTA officials are fiscal realists or simply protecting their real agenda.

I propose that NYC establish a Board of Mass Transit with salaried appointees named by the mayor, public advocate and the five borough presidents; with the budget reviewed by the City Council. If this happens, what steps should the City take to initiate subway expansion?

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