NYC subway signal inspections falsified, shocking investigation finds

The New York Post reports:

It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

NYC Transit supervisors falsified thousands of vital signal inspections across the subway system for years, leaving straphangers at risk for deadly collisions like the one that killed nine people in Washington, D.C., The Post has learned.

Across every line in every borough, a cabal of managers in the signal department forced maintainers to fib on the inspections by threatening them with punishment like loss of overtime, according to a sweeping investigation by the MTA Inspector General.

At least one high-level chief, Tracy Bowdwin — the MTA’s highest earning signal department supervisor at $165,000-a-year — was demoted in the fallout, and managers are still being questioned, transit sources said.

This is the problem with all monopolies : they lack incentives to provide honest services. Single payer health care or high speed rail run by the government would be no better. You'll want to read this entire article, twice.