Robert Kiley

Lecture: Underground Movements: New York's Subways

From the NYPL Public Programs Brochure for Winter/Spring 1988:

Robert Kiley, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the region's subways, buses, and commuter railroads, believes that New York's underground railway solved the problems of intra-urban mobility. But in the last decade the suway was taken for granted while a city starved for funds devoted its attention to more visible needs. Over the past four years, Kiley and his team have begun rebuilding 684 miles of track, acres shops and yards, and the management of nearly 50,000 employees who keep the city moving. Most of what is being done is, characteristically, invisible. Kiley will look at the historic role of transit in New York, and consider how the subway fits into life above ground.

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