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7/12/2019
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced an 81.5 percent on-time performance on the MTA New York City Transit’s (NYCT) subway system in June, marking the first time the measure has been above 80 percent since August 2013.
Weekday major incidents decreased 27.4 percent compared to June 2018's level, dropping from 62 to 45. Furthermore, weekday train delays fell nearly 46 percent from last June, from 56,233 to 30,434, which was the lowest level of delays since September 2013, MTA officials said in a press release.
Additional train time fell to 47 seconds, a drop of nearly 33 percent from last June, while customer journey time performance — the percent of customers whose waiting and travel time is completed within five minutes of their scheduled journey — improved to 84 percent, the highest since this metric has been measured.
MTA officials cited fewer track debris fires as one factor in the reduction in delays. Such fires are down "significantly" since NYCT began using new equipment to address the problem in 2017, they said.