The winter storm that hit New York City came in with a whimper, leading to questions about why Gov. Andrew Cuomo shut down the subway system overnight.
The subways were still running overnight because the city would have had to move all the cars to storage facilities and restarting the system from that is nightmarish. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority--which is controlled by New York state--was forced to move the cars during Hurricane Sandy due to flooding.
“I think it’s horrible, purely political decision, not based on anything that’s needed,” an MTA insider told the Brooklyn Paper on Monday. “It seemed like cutting out a necessary lifeline unnecessarily.” The publication also said some MTA employees were “blindsided” by the governor’s move.