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When stations are repaired in Moscow, they are completely closed and some kind of bus route is launched, where you can travel with a metro ticket.
Good luck getting that to ever happen in the United States. Also buses would be very impractical and near impossible to cover long distances.
Plus traffic.
As an edit: I’m not saying that busses are bad or impractical. They’re the best form of short range public transit. I’m saying that buses in the this scenario would be extremely impractical and logistically impossible to implement.
The people here have never driven through gridlocked rush hour traffic on the Manhattan or Brooklyn bridges, and think that a bus is going to magically make it to its destination without getting stuck for hours or chasing traffic jams on its own.
NYC covers about 800 square km. Moscow is 2,500 square km and much bigger than that if you count the adjoining metropolitan areas. The standard "America is different because so big" argument doesn't work against the largest country on earth by area.
Moscow traffic is also notoriously shit so it's not like that's a differentiating factor either.
Plus, the likes of London and Paris also have old metro systems that are much better maintained than NYC, so idk what combination of excuses NYC has.
This isn’t an “America is big” problem?
What is the population density of New York vs Moscow?
New York is 27,000 per square kilometer. Moscow is around 8.5 thousand.
Combine that extreme density with infrastructure that was built hundreds of years ago, and additionally several chokepoints at only a few major bridges and tunnels.