New York commuters aren’t imagining things: Though the MTA is trying to gloss over the facts, it was another rotten summer for the subways.

Data the agency released last week show an increase in major incidents underground, longer wait times and more delays caused by system disrepair.

The 138 incidents that delayed 50 or more trains in June and July marked worst for those months since 2018.

Responding to a Gothamist report on the new stats, NYC Transit big Bill Amarosa tried to paint the bad news as an illusion caused by the MTA changing how it tracks data in 2023, so that more delays get classified as “major incidents.”

First, note that switching up data-tracking methods is a favorite bureaucratic trick for frustrating critical use of data that must be made public.

Second, that

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