In Transit: Once and future plans to improve the MTA

This article is part of In Transit, an ongoing series of articles, essays and illustrations about transportation in New York City. To pitch a story or submit an idea, email editors@brooklynbased.com. 
In September, Governor Andrew Cuomo told a press conference that “if you look closely, you see improvements,” in the New York City subway, as the room full of reporters presumably combusted in a cloud of transit-based rage.  Or I certainly did when I read about it.