{"id":62015,"date":"2020-09-08T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-londons-underground-is-in-better-post-pandemic-shape-than-nycs-subways\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:42:00","slug":"why-londons-underground-is-in-better-post-pandemic-shape-than-nycs-subways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-londons-underground-is-in-better-post-pandemic-shape-than-nycs-subways\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why London\u2019s Underground is in better post-pandemic shape than NYC\u2019s subways"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why London\u2019s Underground is in better post-pandemic shape than NYC\u2019s subways<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n In both New York and London, core office districts have been empty for half a year. Both cities face a long, hard slog of recovery. But London has an edge: a more rational app<\/a>roach to public transportation.<\/p>\n

Transit ridership is a fraction of what it was. In New York, subway ridership is still down 73 percent; bus ridership, 54 percent. In London, Tube ridership is down 69 percent; buses, 43 percent.<\/p>\n

The point of reviving transit is to get people back into crowded office districts \u2014 the City of London, Midtown Manhattan.\u00a0In Britain, government grasps this. Prime Minister (and former London Mayor) Boris Johnson is launching an ad campaign encouraging people to go back to work.<\/p>\n

Mayor Sadiq Khan telegraphs the same message: \u201cIf we all stay at home working, it\u2019s a big problem for central London,\u201d he said last month. \u201cSmall businesses rely on your workers going to work, the caf\u00e9 bars, the dry cleaners, the shoe-repair shops. .\u2009.\u2009. We are doing what we can to make sure London is as safe as it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two men are hardly united \u2014 they bicker stupidly \u2014 but they get the point. A ghost-town urban core is a disaster.<\/p>\n

Has any one of Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo or President Trump acknowledged this basic fact?<\/p>\n

People won\u2019t come if they don\u2019t trust transit. As it happens, Khan recently appointed a new Transport for London chief: none other than Andy \u00adByford, the British native who, frustrated with Cuomo\u2019s constant interference, quit running New York\u2019s subways and buses in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss New York City,\u201d Byford says, e-showing off his new view of the London Eye. \u201cI read The Post every morning\u201d online. But \u201cthere\u2019s lots to do here\u201d in London.<\/p>\n

One London advantage: coordination. Byford\u2019s job \u201cis the MTA and city DOT all rolled into one.\u201d He is in charge of trains and buses \u2014 and in charge of streets, such as where to put bus and bike lanes. If things go wrong, everyone knows whom to blame, unlike in New York, where the MTA must depend on New York City\u2019s goodwill in creating special lanes (slow, so far, compared to London).<\/p>\n

The second advantage is leadership. In June, before Byford\u2019s arrival, TfL increased the congestion-pricing levy by 30 percent, to nearly $20. Increasing the charge was \u201ccontroversial,\u201d says Byford, but London \u201cknew it cannot have a car-led recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third advantage is money. TfL already had an edge. Thanks to a combination of a much lower health-care burden for workers and bus services that are contracted out to private operators, for example, it moves 2.1 billion passengers a year for about $8.4 billion, whereas the MTA moves 2.6 billion passengers for $13.7 billion.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 has decimated both cities\u2019 revenues. London\u2019s higher congestion charge helps \u2014 but like New York, London needs national support. TfL has gotten the $2.6 billion it asked the national government for earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Now, it is asking for another $4.6 billion \u2014 and is almost certain to get it, no congressional (parliamentary) drama \u00adinvolved. Boris\u2019s main request? That TfL tie new aid to cost reform, like driverless trains, common in Paris, Lyon and Turin.<\/p>\n

The national and local government are also cooperating on limited free trip<\/a>s for commuters to coax them to venture back.<\/p>\n

Last, crime. De Blasio has sat by as a crime pandemic has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic \u00adunderground. From April through June, subway felony crime was down only 47.5 percent \u2014 meaning, with ridership down double than that most of the period, each rider was at higher risk, per capita, of \u00adbecoming a victim.<\/p>\n

Murders have more than doubled, to four, and robbery is up 5 percent. Reports of conductors being pushed to the tracks hardly win people back.<\/p>\n

In London, \u201cwe\u2019ve not seen an uptick,\u201d says Byford. In fact, the opposite: April through July, crimes \u201cagainst the person\u201d in the Underground are down 67.5 percent, robbery down 52.4 percent. London\u2019s returning commuters have one less thing to worry about.<\/p>\n

New York and London are sister cities \u2014 twin capitals of finance, law, entertainment and tourism. Without drastic change stateside, one sibling may emerge from this crisis more radiant than the other.<\/p>\n

Correction: Last week,\u00a0I wrote erroneously that Lincoln Center\u2019s outdoor plazas remained shuttered. Lincoln Center has reopened them during the day. The city-run Columbus Circle Park \u00adremains closed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor of City Journal.\u00a0Twitter<\/a>: @NicoleGelinas<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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