Hey New Yorkers. Sorry to say, but we've got some unfortunate news about the subways we ride every day.

You probably don't need to be told that the subways aren't in great shape. But a new study by Jamison Dague over at CBCNY shows they're in way worse shape than we thought.

Dague evaluated the MTA based on two main questions; the first being whether the MTA allocates funds wisely, and the second being what the MTA could do to get every single subway station in a state of good repair.

Thomas Prendergast, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the MTA, has proposed a capital plan for 2015-2019 that not only isn't fully-funded, but if actualized, wouldn't bring 20% of the MTA's 467 subway stations' structural components to a state of good repair (SGR). 

In the early 1980s, the MTA hoped to bring all stations to SGR by 1990. By 1992, they planned to get the stations there by 2009. In 1995 they delayed that goal to 2019, the 2000-2004 capital plan aimed for 2022. Finally, in the 2005-2009 plan, no specific goal for SGR was set.

It seems like SGR for all subway stations is as elusive a goal as Icarus touching the sun or Sisyphus (Dague's study is titled "Sisyphus and Subway Stations") finally getting his boulder up the hill.

For the MTA to keep its subway stations at a constant state of SGR, it would have to average 13 rehabilitations per year and since 2000, the MTA's been averaging 10 per year.

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Dague then goes ahead and lists the 33 subway stations with more than half of their total structural components not in a state of good repair. 

Of the 33, a whopping high 15 are in Queens, 11 are in Brooklyn, five are in Manhattan, and three are in the Bronx.

In fact, if you want to see which stations are "not in a state of good repair" for yourself, you can check out CBCNY's interactive map. 

via CBCNY

When you click on your subway stations, the map will tell you what percent of the station's structural components are in good repair, and exactly what the MTA's plans to improve at that station in the 2015-2019 capital plan. 

Dague's idea is for the MTA to work on repairing its stations before it spends money building new ones. 

In fact, Dague's report goes as far as to state that at the MTA's current rate of progress, "SGR for all station components would not be achieved until 2067." Sigh... 

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[via CBCNY]