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Talking MTA with Jeffrey Lewis and Streetsblog EIC Ben Fried

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New Yorkers have a love/hate relationship with their subway system, and a good portion of that hate is directed towards the MTA. Enduring continual fare increases, lousy service, and crowded trains make it is easy to conclude that the ā€œWorldā€™s Greatest Cityā€ does not have a transit system to match. With billions in city, state, and federal funding at stake, the MTAā€™s plight is a complicated one. On the newest episode of Nothing Urgent, we try to diagnose the MTAā€™s problems and prescribe some solutions with Streetsblog Editor-In-Chief Ben Fried, and musicianā€”and NYC-liferā€”Jeffrey Lewis, whose newest record, Manhattan, was released October 30 2015 on Rough Trade, makes the New York Subway a recurring topic in many of his songs. Get a taste for Lewisā€™s album with the little ditty about the L train: