Joe Lhot👍a wants to be the coolest MTA chairman ever.
The transit bo𝕴ss said Friday he wants a working air conditioner on every single subway car in the city this summer.
“New Yorkers deserve to be able to get into the system a😼nd not be overheate🐻d because the air conditioning is not working,” Lhota said. “I don’t want any hot cars.”
Last week’s cash infusion of $4ౠ18 million from city coffers will allow the MTA to add 50🌳0 new workers to train yards, and many of those will be woꦿrking on fixing air-conditioning units, said Lhota.
That’s in addition to the 900 new employees the agency hired last⛄ summer when Lhota launched the Subway Action Plan in response to the dire state of the system.
“Into the summer, I want to make sure that there are no hot cars,” Lhota said during a tour of⛄ an Inwood train yard.
“So we’re looking at each and every one of our air- conditioning units throughout th♔e entire system and refurbishing them and getting them ready.”
Lhota al🗹so directed workers to keep dozens of backup units around in case of a🍎 breakdown, he said.
MTA offi🐻cials said the agency had got between 12 and 16 hot car reports per day in🤪 summer of 2016, the most recent data they had available.