Don’t forget that we are still paying the unions for jobs that got automated..40 years ago

London and Paris are actually very dangerous,not Detroit or Baltimore dangerous, but compared to the rest of France and the UK they are, not a very good comparison

Eh that's not really what I mean, the vast majority of murder is the result of interpersonal violence (i.e. you've wronged me therefore I'm going to use violence to punish you), rather than resource violence or mass violence. If you're in a social circle where violence is an acceptable means of solving conflicts, then the probability of having violence used against you goes up exponentially, if you don't associate with people that use violence, then you'll basically never see it.

Population density really only affects resource violence, which is fairly minimal & consistent to begin with.

TIL it takes 39 people to replace a subway track.

That is not at all what my mom described the trains like when she was growing up

Found the MTA worker getting that hundreds of thousands in fraud overtime

This is becuase they were actually upgrading the signaling system, bringing you faster, more frequent, and more reliable trains.

I was muted just for asking a question in modmail. Is it the new policy that mods don’t have to be tolerant of others opinions that they don’t like? Should you update the seeking mods post to say “just don’t question leadership and you can be a mod / allowed to post here”?

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> I don't really see improvement during weekday service from track work

Tracks wear out, you know? The improvement is that the trains are still running

The city generally feels safer recently vs last year. Last January and February were awful.

"Everyone that complains about crime in NYC is a bit of a troll." - guy from New Jersey

London and Paris aren't particularly safe either. Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Sydney are the ones you'd want to compare to.

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People who use the trains a handful of times should not pay the same tax rate as people that use trains multiple times a day.

Free public transportation eventually results in shitty public transportation and eventually no public transportation. You think the trains are bad now? Wait until there is literally no barrier to entry/use.

People should pay for the services they use. That’s how it is in Europe and Japan, and they are lightyears ahead of the US in terms of public transport.

Dunno where you've been but CWR has been going in for a long time now. It's not everywhere, but it's been installed in lots of places in the system.

That’s the thing about density.

If a bodega a worker gets shot (like the one who was shot a couple days ago in the UES), there will be a lot more people who know that person, compared to when someone in Oklahoma City gets shot.

The population density in NYC is like 20x bigger.

Criminal activity is very "social", most people won't commit crimes spontaneously but if you're associated with people who do then people can be encouraged to do so. Essentially if you don't know anyone who's been shot, the probability you'll be shot yourself starts to approach zero.

Have friends that work in the MTA. They clock and work about 3 hours a day. When needed for OT they’ll just go and take a nap and get paid for it.

should have done a time lapse so we can see them working or not

yeah but bart and muni stop running at like 12am. not really comparable

Fair but at least use those windows.

However, I don't really buy that reasoning either because most of the time, I see all the equipment idle on closed tracks for days on end with no one working. Also, like other comments have stated, there is only 2-3 total people doing work or 4-5 doing work with 15 standing around.

Agreed, but richest taxpayers feels like an oxymoron. Make the rich pay their taxes, make it a requirement of patriotic duty to the country. Screw these scalpers

Maybe it’s time for the MTA to innovate.

That's actually not the reason why. If you figure the a average worker gets $50k or even $100k a year it would take hundreds or thousands of them doing nothing to equal to the tens and hundreds of millions lost to huge projects.

A study showed the reason costs overrun more in the US is because different government agencies poach from such an undertaking. For instance they needed a place to store stuff for the 2nd Ave subway, and they wanted to use a local playground for a few months. The parks department charged them an exorbitant amount (tens of millions of IRC) to do so.

In other countries government agencies act in unison. Here in the US city, state, federal are all separate, and hence it makes doing large projects more difficult and costly. Additionally underfunding our government makes them "thirsty" for these opportunities when they arise.

We sold our souls by cutting taxes to corporations and the wealthy and we end up paying for it in taxes, fees, and crumbling infrastructure.