[THE BIG APPLE]

Yes. NYC is an ever changing city, the city evolves and transforms. Perhaps the only relic of 1900's NYC other than than skyscrapers, that is actually left intact are the tunnels belong to the subway system. These tunnels are really in essence 19th Century infrastructure serving a 21st Century populous.

The rails need servicing every other day in NYC. Trains are delayed every week, as portions of the rail bed are cut off every week for servicing and repairing in a phase called the weekender.

But it's all the city has. NYC is one of those places that can get away with a bad subway system, merely because of the fact that NYC is NYC, and people in NYC are content with a hole in the ground and a train that takes them home in 50 minutes as opposed to 15 minutes. Whilst highspeed rail in not feasible in NYC, there can be better efforts made to use the express tracks and use them to their fullest potential. If express stops were introduced in Brooklyn, Queens, and Bronx, then travel times for people travelling to Manhattan could be reduced from 80 minutes to as little as 27 minutes. This requires no change to infrastructure.

What they can do with infrastructure however is introduce quality track bed, faster trains with quicker brakes, and if possible enlarge the busiest train stations (Times Sq./Herald Sq./Union Sq./Grand Central/Penn Station).

In Dubai if infrastructure is 5 years old, they just demolish it and build better infrastructure. That's not possible in NYC, but the city can make strides in caring and enhancing the system to 22nd Century standards. Think ahead.