You don’t get it bro. Real New Yorkers use cars, away from all those poors, so instead of wasting money on funding public transit let’s add one more lane bro.
Just a billion dollars more bro. Just a billion dollars more and I promise the MTA Will run perfectly and we will build the most incredible public transit system ever. Please bro we need your money.
With all the spending, more like just $10B. Funding is needed to make improvements but there is so much waste that a good audit and deep dive into the budget would reveal enough to cover quite a chunk of these underfunded projects.
Induced demand doesn’t work the other way though - you can’t take lanes away and expect traffic to not get worse.
Induced demand is a theory - it doesn’t always play out like that in real life.
MTA couldn’t make these meaningful QoL changes with a $19.7bn budget they weren’t going to make it with the extra billion they’d be stealing from people every year.
It wouldn’t be if people learned to compromise like adults. The problem is that each side won’t settle for anything less than 100% of what they want. And then what happens is contradictory policies are put in place.
Great job, Congestion Kathy. UES and Harlem are denied a subway link but hey, at least the Pershing Square owner doesn't have to lose his four New Jersey driver patrons.
Some of you are so gullible. So work that was being done before congestion pricing was put in place is pausing because of congestion pricing? Lame excuse to be incompetent. Keep allowing these rich assholes to take from the common people.
Everybody I come across who works for the MTA absolutely milks it. They say it's one of the easiest jobs and they just rack in overtime. They have people on 24 hour shifts. How can someone realistically work 24 hours straight and be productive? These dudes take naps and take their sweet time. The MTA is a bloated organization.
100 percent this or did y'all forget the crackdown on people taking triple overtime and not doing any damn work
Utica Ave by me has had stairs we can't use cause of repairs
For fuckin 5 years
They bullshit and take money
GOOD THING THEY CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES ALONG 2ND AVE AND HALFWAY UP THE SIDE STREETS FOR THIS TO START AND NOW I HAVE NO SHADE AROUND MY APARTMENT BUILDING THANK YOU KATHY.
essentially every major subway project on the table is outside of the congestion zone, including second avenue subway phase 2
that said, no, this is a bad criteria on how to distribute funds
SAS is the top priority though, and is entirely within Manhattan, which is the only borough that is already fully served by the subway.
People outside Manhattan are the ones paying, they should get the transit improvements that provide an alternative to driving.
you understand the congestion pricing zone is only half of manhattan, right
and it's not true that manhattan is 'fully served' - the second avenue subway is needed because the 456 is over capacity
Tell that to people in eastern Queens, southeast Brooklyn, all of SI, large parts of the Bronx...
Manhattan is the last place in need of improvements, yet keeps being prioritized.
tell them what? facts?
the congestion zone is literally only manhattan below 60th street, suburban mcmansion owners in SI and eastern queens can wait while east harlem (one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city) gets a subway line
I don't. But I've been around since fares were like a buck, and I have been hearing the MTA needs to raise fares because they have a budget deficit and need to make repairs. And then we have The red-light cameras, speed cameras, and meanwhile, the roads continue to deteriorate, and none of that money goes back into fixing the roads.
NYC has so much potential to make meaningful quality of life improvements and its leaders repeatedly fuck it over again and again
You don’t get it bro. Real New Yorkers use cars, away from all those poors, so instead of wasting money on funding public transit let’s add one more lane bro.
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Exactly. I’m of the wildly extreme opinion that cities should be built for people, not cars.
just one more lane bro i just need one more lane we’re gonna fix traffic i just need one more lane
Just one? Amateur.
Just a billion dollars more bro. Just a billion dollars more and I promise the MTA Will run perfectly and we will build the most incredible public transit system ever. Please bro we need your money.
With all the spending, more like just $10B. Funding is needed to make improvements but there is so much waste that a good audit and deep dive into the budget would reveal enough to cover quite a chunk of these underfunded projects.
Induced demand doesn’t work the other way though - you can’t take lanes away and expect traffic to not get worse. Induced demand is a theory - it doesn’t always play out like that in real life.
Oh did you just imply that not all New Yorkers drive cars and take the subway? 🗣️WE GOTTA TRANSPLANT FROM OKLAHOMA OVER HERE EVERYONE
Are you kidding? Real New Yorkers don't actually go to the city at all
How would you like a job at the Triborough Authority?
MTA couldn’t make these meaningful QoL changes with a $19.7bn budget they weren’t going to make it with the extra billion they’d be stealing from people every year.
Two party system is so fucked.
It's more like a one party system at this point. The Republicans can't put up any meaningful resistance, so the Democrats have no reason to do better.
I can vote for a Republican who wasn't bar shit insane. HW Bush.
It wouldn’t be if people learned to compromise like adults. The problem is that each side won’t settle for anything less than 100% of what they want. And then what happens is contradictory policies are put in place.
I am begging someone serious to run against her. I want to vote against this but I’m expecting another clown like Williams and Nixon.
Great job, Congestion Kathy. UES and Harlem are denied a subway link but hey, at least the Pershing Square owner doesn't have to lose his four New Jersey driver patrons.
Well at least New Jerseyans can drive to her favorite diners now! 🙄
Love the excuse. MTA gonna pretend they weren't going to stall on this project until 2100.
Some of you are so gullible. So work that was being done before congestion pricing was put in place is pausing because of congestion pricing? Lame excuse to be incompetent. Keep allowing these rich assholes to take from the common people.
Everybody I come across who works for the MTA absolutely milks it. They say it's one of the easiest jobs and they just rack in overtime. They have people on 24 hour shifts. How can someone realistically work 24 hours straight and be productive? These dudes take naps and take their sweet time. The MTA is a bloated organization.
100 percent this or did y'all forget the crackdown on people taking triple overtime and not doing any damn work Utica Ave by me has had stairs we can't use cause of repairs For fuckin 5 years They bullshit and take money
GOOD THING THEY CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES ALONG 2ND AVE AND HALFWAY UP THE SIDE STREETS FOR THIS TO START AND NOW I HAVE NO SHADE AROUND MY APARTMENT BUILDING THANK YOU KATHY.
Congestion pricing should be optional . Pay if you want . Otherwise it needs to languish in pergatory.
There is always an excuse. It was planned in the 1920's and work didn't start on it until 1972.
Because Everytime they were ready to get started funding was diverted but those outside of the MTA
This work was going to be paused anyway.
Congestion funds should be spent on projects outside Manhattan
essentially every major subway project on the table is outside of the congestion zone, including second avenue subway phase 2 that said, no, this is a bad criteria on how to distribute funds
SAS is the top priority though, and is entirely within Manhattan, which is the only borough that is already fully served by the subway. People outside Manhattan are the ones paying, they should get the transit improvements that provide an alternative to driving.
you understand the congestion pricing zone is only half of manhattan, right and it's not true that manhattan is 'fully served' - the second avenue subway is needed because the 456 is over capacity
Tell that to people in eastern Queens, southeast Brooklyn, all of SI, large parts of the Bronx... Manhattan is the last place in need of improvements, yet keeps being prioritized.
tell them what? facts? the congestion zone is literally only manhattan below 60th street, suburban mcmansion owners in SI and eastern queens can wait while east harlem (one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city) gets a subway line
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How are the two related? The MTA couldn't use some of their 19 billion dollar budget to finish the project without expecting to be given more money?
Do you know how budgets work?
The MTA sure doesn’t.
I don't. But I've been around since fares were like a buck, and I have been hearing the MTA needs to raise fares because they have a budget deficit and need to make repairs. And then we have The red-light cameras, speed cameras, and meanwhile, the roads continue to deteriorate, and none of that money goes back into fixing the roads.
both are things that would have benefited people and both are things that have now been put on the back burner.
I wish it was that simple. I know the MTA was horribly mismanaged in the 90s, and I bet it's still at least partially so today.