New York City Mayor De Blasio and MTA chairman vow to never — ever — shut the subways

By Jillian Jorgensen and Dan Rivoli, New York Daily News; November 30, 2017

Here’s one thing MTA Chairman Joe Lhota and Mayor de Blasio agree on: The city never sleeps, and the subway shouldn’t, either.

The men, once competitors for City Hall and now opponents in transit policy, rejected a wild idea from the nonprofit Regional Plan Association that called for the subway to take a nap from 12:30 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday through Thursday. The group said just 85,000 people, 1.5% of the subway’s 5.7 million daily riders, take trains overnight.

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