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Because this isn't a real plan, it's Cuomo wanting to grandstand as a savior.

"Cuomo’s tunnel experts spent just an hour evaluating damage" https://nypost.com/2019/01/04/cuomos-tunnel-experts-have-spe...

The city doesn't run the subway, the state does.

Apparently they originally only looked at techniques that had been used before in the US. Agreed that the big contractors and old bureaucracies such as the MTA could probably use a round of inspiration.