Bloomberg's transport policy was not that of someone solely concerned with travel by chauffeured sedan.
As you know, I've been quite the Bloomberg defender on this point. But, uh, I'm starting to think that
might have been a little naive, what with the endless delays (two years after his shiny line-opening photo-op!) and lack of station in Hell's Kitchen (that really needed it more), and as I've been reminded recently, the fact that the City's contribution to the MTA stayed stagnant during the Bloomberg years.
I mean, he made the right noises, and we'll see at least a
stub of the Second Avenue Subway sometime before I'm dead, and that's not nothing. And JSK was legit fantastic– I'll continue to trumpet the streetscape improvements. But some of the seams of his MTA policy are, in retrospect, starting to show. That he did more for transit in the city than anyone since LaGuardia may simply be a matter of just how awful his predecessors were.