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December 6, 2007

NY Subway Lines To Be Managed Individually

The New York Times has a bit this morning about changes in how the city subway system will be managed:

When the trains are late or trash piles up in a station, straphangers tend to grumble about a faceless “authority.” No one says: That guy who runs the No. 7 line really needs to get his act together.

But transit officials are determined to change that.

Howard H. Roberts Jr., president of New York City Transit, will announce an overhaul today of how the subway system is run. The changes are designed to give individual subway lines a greater degree of autonomy by putting each one under the direction of a manager who will be responsible for almost everything that happens on the tracks, in the trains and in the stations.

The goal, Mr. Roberts said, is to have 24 subway lines operating in many ways as 24 self-contained railroads. (The number may vary, depending on how the lines are counted.) They will compete against one another and be rated on service, cleanliness, on-time performance and other measures.

I'm fascinated by this. I wonder how well this model would work in bus-centric cities like Seattle - would it make sense to have a "general manager" of the 48, the 12, or the 43? Hm...

Posted by Gavin Shearer at December 6, 2007 9:23 AM. Posted to Transit.

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