Yup, could you imagine the costs if they were digging all of these tunnels fresh?

I remember reading one mile of subway tunnel in NYC costs 20x the amount it costs to install one mile in London.

The WNYC leadership is toxic AF and I wouldn't take their side of things at face value.

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Never even heard of the show until I saw this article. Maybe that's why it was canceled. Or someone thought themselves more important than they were and management deciding enough is enough. There's a little tell in her telling them she was stepping down when her demands were not met. But basically begging for her job back when told they were canceling the show. Her bluff was called.

Funny way to stab at joe biden huh. I get that it's known as a hundred year line but that's quite a reach.

They’ll pass it on to the drivers by paying them less or just charge the customers more

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Deliver my overpriced juice for meager base pay and $2 tip

Would you build a train station for 15 bucks an hour?

If you do some back of the envelope math, you’ll see the numbers don’t square. Don’t forget that if you’re including fare revenues, you should also add operating costs including maintenance, which may consume all or most of the revenues on their own.

In any case, these construction costs seem laughably astronomical.

The federal government just printed 60% of all the money that’s ever been in circulation in like 2 years

Nothing is fiscally impossible. Nothing ever has been

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Thanks for posting, ignore the redditors who never leave their house and are upset at the thought of people socializing and enjoying life

This promotion seems sort of misguided, and is going to blow up in your face if you keep posting, but I wish you guys well.

Yeah well your small business is subject to the rules of the subreddit like everyone else. You posted this and it was removed and you posted it again. That's spamming.

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That's what elections are for - we vote for people to make and enact policies, we shouldn't need to get "involved" beyond that to help counterbalance the miniscule number of people who make it onto a Community Board.

Stop spamming this

"Signal." "Likely." If they are gonna feed us Bread & Circuses, at least make it a fucking entertaining show. Tired of this rerun.

George Santos is 3 kids in a trench coat.

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It should not cost this much. Although it seems like it’s that 125th St Station under the 4:5/6 that is pushing up the estimate.

I dunno I’ve never looked into the issue that much, but it’s not too hard in most big ticket items, like stadium deals, affordable housing construction, public housing repairs etc, to find ways to do things cheaper and more efficiently without jeopardizing pay or safety standards.

I’m sure there’s a competent bureaucrat somewhere that no one is listening to grumbling about different ways to do things better around MTA construction and expansion.

> The new price tag includes interest payments on debt the MTA expects to take out to build the subway extension.

I’m sorry, we give rich folks loan forgiveness via the PPP loan program. We give billionaires tax cuts and almost 0% interest loans.

But forgiving student loan debt or financial infrastructure projects? Nah they gotta pull themselves by the bootstrap.

I wonder if Hudson yards would have been viable if they got the same treatment as the MTA.

No one seems to be coming up with a way it could be done more cost effectively, and with unions and regulations (which are important as these stations need to be made safely), I doubt they could cut much of the costs.

Edit: if anyone downvoting would like to tell me an actual plan that can reduce costs associated with building new subway stations feel free.