What do you want first, the good news or the bad news?

Okay, okay. The good news is that train manufacturer Bombardier is in the process of building sleek, modern R179 trains for the MTA that are slated to replace the current oldest subway cars.

The bad news is that the MTA won't be able to put them into rotation-- until 2022. 

So it looks like the old geezers that haul New Yorkers around on the C and J/Z lines will have to delay their retirement for another... seven years. 

"This retirement will need to be delayed until 2022 due to delays in the delivery of R179 replacement cars," in addition to growing ridership, the MTA's budget document read.

The oldest trains are a model called R32, and they were all the rage at the 1964 World's Fair. MTA originally planned to lug these old guys off their tracks in 2018, but the four year setback will cost MTA $50.2 million over those four years in maintenance and extra train staff, according to the budget documents.

MTA Board Member and Riders Representative Andrew Albert was not stoked about the delay.

"They're throwing good money after bad," Albert told the New York Daily News. "Riders do not like these cars."

It's true these clunkers don't rock. They break down an average of every 58,101 miles, according to MTA statistics. Trains designed in more contemporary times can travel about 400,000 miles without a malfunction.

"Riders in 2020 will be taking the same cars that Don Draper would have been on in 1964, and they don't look as good as he does," said Rebecca Bailin, Campaign Manager with the Riders Alliance, a grassroots transit group that has campaigned for better C train service.

"Riders are sick of commuting on trains with regular breakdowns that cause delays and overcrowding," Bailin said. 

Still, it seems like we're going to have to deal with this madness for seven more years. So yeah... ummmm, anyone want to split an Uber? 

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