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New York City's subway is falling apart — here's how it compares to other cities around the world

As a New York Times investigation recently showed, the NYC subway is in crisis mode. Here are the cities that have public transit that regularly leaves on time.

2017 is a particularly bad year for the New York City subway. A few highlights: A train got stuck underground without air-conditioning in the summer for nearly an hour; a track fire bogged down multiple lines and sent nine people to the hospital; and after a train derailed for the second time in 2017, NY state of emergency

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Delays have become a normal for NYC commuters.

This week, The

NYC's system, with just 65% of its performance on-time, fares the worst.

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