After an investigation, the top two senior London Underground and London Regional Transport officials resigned. Across the pond in New York City, meanwhile, the subway system was in rude shape. “Basically since the end of the second world war, there was no investment” in the London transit system, she says. It also poached the head of the New York subway, Bob Kiley, and by the late 2000s it had taken control of all London Underground lines – previously controlled by companies through public-private partnerships. As the population and attention of New York City increasingly leaves Manhattan behind and moves outward, does the subway need to keep growing, too, to save itself?

Source: The Guardian December 16, 2019 13:16 UTC