>The project would extend the subway line by 1.5 miles from East 96th Street. It would add three new stations: one at East 106th Street, another at East 116th Street, and a new level beneath the existing platforms at Lexington Avenue and 125th Street.

$7.7B is a lot, but the price tag doesn't mean it's not worthwhile.

Absent from the article is how much the MTA expects to collect in fare revenue from this expansion. Couldn't future fare revenues be used to finance the construction?

Hey that 28.6 billion isn’t gonna fund itself.

It's not impossible, it's just the city / state tend to be really bad at doing things intelligently.

A complete boondoggle putting money into the pockets of grifters.

Tough luck.

When will we learn to love George Santos? Just like Trump, he is a grifter. Of course he is an ATM skimmer. That makes total sense.

Right now, today he is negotiating the rights to his life story, the proceeds of which will go directly into Bitcoin, then to Russia along with every secret sensitive document he can lay his hands on.

Think about it? Where did George Santos money come from? You might think he sold his soul to the devil? No such thing as the devil. Russian spy?

Give the majority to Republicans? Ah ha! Hollywood script? Ah ha!

Top that with the FBI counterintelligence chief arrested for taking bribes?

In 1945, George Santos would disappear. That may still happen.

Obviously it would be ideal to create a ton of new subway stations and make public transportation more accessible, but it’s very obviously fiscally impossible.

Step counter says my average is a bit over 3.5.

Considering how I run around a lot at work, makes sense.

George Santos is the Lindbergh baby

This is just stupid. Just plain stupid. Buy a bunch of blimps and float them across town. More scenic, just as ridiculous.

Disaster movies in NYC I can recall (Cloverfield and The Day After Tomorrow), but I can't think of too many horror films.

Scream is the latest, and I can think of one Friday the 13th.

I don't think Candyman or Tales from the Hood were in NYC.

> “To land that grant once and for all, US DOT is requiring us to demonstrate that we're going to have financial stability in our operating budget so that we can pay for the operation of a new train line in addition to everything else,” Lieber said. “Not for nothing, we've been promising East Harlem and central Harlem, the Second Avenue Subway since Joe Biden was like 10 years old.”

Lmao

“We used a computer to be able to download the information on the pieces. We also used an external hard drive to save the filming, because the skimmer took the information from the card, and the camera took the password,” he wrote.

“It didn’t work out so well, because I was arrested,” he admitted.

^hahahaha

I mean, I think most of us know why.. but we aren’t prepared to tackle that kind of shit at the moment. Same reason the military budget is so hyper-inflated. Government contracts tend to disperse the money in a “particular way” unlike private sector contracts.

Fun fact: the existing extension cost $4.45B for 1.8miles of track. The Q cruises at about 20mph through that section of track.

So when you’re going uptown from 63rd St on the Q you’re traveling at about $50B/hr or about $14MM/second.

Always a fun way to think about it while on the train 😊.

So 15.4 Billion, got it

Park on the street like everyone else?

I wonder how much something like this would cost in, say, London. Infrastructure costs so much fucking money here and nobody seems to know why.

Pull the plug already.

And large sections of tunnel have already been built- wtf is up with these costs

AND the kid, too.

Bond interest rates

George Santos ate Azaria Chamberlain.

I mean, just because we do it poorly now doesn't mean we shouldn't still try and build more and improve the process.

That being said if I am reading the subtext of your comment properly, it's laughable when the fuck cars folks just say "just ride a bike" or "just improve infrastructure" as if those things are always easy or accessible to everyone.

And I wonder how long it’s going to take?! It took MTA more than 3 years to install a single elevator, god knows how much money!