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• Source: New York Times
• Date: March 26, 2005
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• Bylines: Sewell Chan , Jo Craven-McGinty
• Topics: Transportation
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: An analysis of delays on the New York City subway system confirms what many riders have begun to suspect: After years of improvements, the number of delays has started to increase over the last 18 months. The trend has raised concerns among some transit experts that the service improvements achieved over the last decade may be ever more difficult to sustain. Indeed, according to an analysis by The New York Times of monthly statistics on delays covering the last eight years, a typical weekday rider on the subway today is likely to experience a train delay roughly once every three weeks, compared with about once every five weeks in September 2003, when the number of stalled trains reached a record low. New York City Transit defines a delay as a train's being more than five minutes behind schedule by the end of its run.