End of the Line

[Available June 14 on various digital and VOD platforms.] Emmett Adler's eye-opening, educational, unsettling, in-depth, 65-minute documentary that focuses on the New York City subway system, which began in 1904 and serves more nine million riders per day, that is in dire need of a massive overhaul in all areas of the mass transit system due to power outages, a series of disasters such as flooding, and overcrowding; focuses on the economic concerns, political turmoil, citizen hardships, and frustrations that occur when MTA NYC Transit President Andy Byford tries to implement his controversial plans to shore up infrastructure and to rebuild the severely out-of-date subway system; and consists of commentary by former MTA NYC Transit interim president Sarah Feinberg, former NYC Department of Transportation Director of Policy John Orcutt, journalists (such as John Surico, Aaron Gordon, Clayton Guse, Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Jose Martinez, and Paul Berger), NYC councilman Antonio Reynoso, former governor Andrew M. Cuomo, TransitCenter Deputy Executive Director Tabitha Decker, former NYC mayor Bill De Blasio, former MTA Chairman Joseph J. Lhota, ex-candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, real estate broker Jonathan Tager, resident Gina Garan, Transportation Commissioner Sam Schwartz, former MTA interim chairman Fernando ‘Freddie' Ferrer, and MTA board members Andrew Saul, Charles Moerdler, Polly Trottenberg, and Veronica Vanterpool.
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