ok so have you or any of the consultants you've worked with EVER taken a fee contingent upon results? And if so, how long did you wait to get paid? Months? Years??

> It's not fiscally sound over the long term

Then they shouldn't have offered it to people who spent their lives working for the city to get that benefit.

He made no claim that NYC costs should resemble Mumbai costs. Are all comparisons now disallowed because of a false colloquialism about fruit?

Absurd. The MTA needs to be abolished and rebuilt from the ground-up. The blatant fraud, waste, and abuse is simply depressing.

Waiting 20-30 minutes for a $3 train 3AM that can travel 3 boroughs on a service that has multiple apps you can see where the train is currently at is unusable? Your choice of words I find untruthful.

Amazing!!!!!!

Taco Bell brought back the Bacon Club Chalupa and it's over $6 for just one of them lol

Must be all of those extra consultants.

I meant unusable. Getting anywhere in the middle of the night on the NYC subway these days means waiting 20-30 minutes for a train to _maybe_ show up if it's running at all on the weekends. And that's assuming you don't have to transfer?

George Santos invented grunge

It sounds like the union presidents of the uft and dc37 have complete control over the MLC considering they get 1 vote per 250 members and those 2 unions have way more members then any other union. That would suck to be in another union and to have your healthcare controlled by another union boss.

You’re right, we do need to do something about the police union.

Again I ask, what does this have to do with this story about a cop being let off the hook by other cops despite illegal activity?

Mediocrity is being nice. We are stuck accepting utter incompetence.

I have actually worked in consulting. I don't see how any of your points prevent what I'm suggesting from being possible.

>a box of expired bandaids thrown in a puddle

"Our healthcare is a bottle of Malort?" -Chicago natives

What does unable mean? Shit is 24/7. When I’m in Paris I’m getting a cab at night.

>Make the contract only pay out if they do and it is shown to work in practice.

That's not how consulting works though. What tangible metric would you use for 'works in practice?' Consulting isn't some low-skill endeavor you can have a bunch of interns doing. Plus the longer you wait on a project the more the price rises. Also 'get rid of the corruption' is a fun easy solution but almost impossible to implement in the scope of any NY construction project.

Saying that the NYC subway runs "24/7" is questionable when it's basically unusable between the hours of midnight and 6am.

The difference is that other cities have competent people running them who manage to get things on a tight schedule. We need to stop accepting mediocrity and trying to accept the MTA's ineptitude and ask why we can't build anything efficiently in this country.

>fun

I think you misspelled "Apples and oranges."

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I did note that it was a possibility since the 20s originally you are the one not really adding anything more than a speed read of wikipedia.

Nope, source and educate yourself better next time.