[codekansas]

MTA's issues aren't really funding issues, it's just not done very well in comparison to other large cities. For example, for legacy reasons MTA cars can't be automated like the cars in subways in most other places that have them, so you end up with a lot more humans being in the loop, which results in more delays due to human fallibility. It's a very old system that has been largely reluctant to upgrade and is falling behind the rest of the world in many ways (admittedly no where else in the US though).