Explores the role of the MTA in New York City and the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on the vital service it prov | dG1feFIwVlNTV1FYMDQ
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 We're telling people up front, this is a very big deal.
00:13 The sheer magnitude of the L train shutdown is being acknowledged.
00:19 This is unprecedented.
00:21 No one understands how bad this is going to be when it happens.
00:25 More than 50% of this business is going to go down.
00:27 I'm talking about like 60 to 70%.
00:29 How dare you do this to us? We are people.
00:33 [MUSIC]
00:37 There's been some criticism that this process should be farther along.
00:40 When did government incompetence become okay?
00:46 This is just another complete disaster.
00:50 We are not empty suits.
00:52 This should not have been a surprise.
00:56 You have aging infrastructure, lack of maintenance, the rising specter of climate change,
01:02 and political tensions over who's responsible for fixing it, who's responsible for paying for it.
01:08 The New York City subway system is an achievement, it's an architectural feat,
01:11 but its decline is very much a symptom of where we've gotten as a society and as a country.
01:16 [MUSIC]
01:19 To keep our workers safe and to keep the public safe,
01:25 we're going to do something that has never been done before.
01:30 I don't think I can adequately express what the pandemic did to this organization.
01:39 [MUSIC]
01:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]