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Subway stations to suffer from budget pinch

Short on money and facing a massive budget gap, the MTA is amending its once planned rehab of 55 stations. It will now only get to 25 stations in its 2005-2009 capital plan, raising fears the system could revert to the nightmare conditions of the 1970s.

At the current pace of 25 every five years, it would be mid-century before the more than 200 stations in the subway system were in a "state...

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