Eric Goldwyn Makes Case for a NYC Transit Mayor

Transit makes it possible to capture the benefits of density—a diversified economy and thriving neighborhoods—while mitigating the bad stuff, namely congestion and its attendant maladies: pollution, car crashes, injuries, fatalities, property damage, noise, road repairs, and more.

Any city that hopes to grow its tax base by adding population and jobs without expanding its physical footprint needs a high-capacity transit system that enables anywhere-to-anywhere connectivity without succumbing to density's negative attributes.

The problem is that New York is not set up to have a transit mayor.