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Read the article it mentions that the retiree has a real estate business located near the precinct. You start to wonder.

What does a sidewalk shed have anything to do with this

> Come on, we're not talking about throwing them the keys and shouting "comebackinanhour"

I would want to be on that train.

There's a couple on Staten Island named Kingdom of Kush. Lol

Yeah, just because a lot of ops did dumb shit like that back then (and only got away with it because of no social media) doesn't mean we should continue said dumb shit today.

Any vehicle like this, you shouldn't be allowed to operate unless you've undergone training at first. That applies even if you have someone watching over them.

We wouldn't let someone operate a bus or plane for "just a few seconds" under the guise of "Eh, it's just for fun." Same should apply here.

Allowing unqualified people to operate trains literally helped lead to the deadliest accident in NYC subway history. Hard pass.

The cost will only keep going up. It's a valid question do we just plunge ahead anyways? The 2nd Ave did get opened after all, should we cease any expansions to the subway ever, or expand (at great cost)? I don't know the right answer, the costs are absurd and ideally work would be done now to reduce these costs through corruption investigations and reworking how the MTA does bidding and contracts. It also raises an interesting equity question, we spent all this money to connect the UES with the Second Ave Subway, plus largely white suburbanites with ESA, where's the billions to connect more minority neighborhoods like Harlem, and the future expansion to the Bronx?

> someone explain how congestion pricing helps the MTA money problem

The legislation passed by the New York State Legislature mandates that the CBD tolling (congestion pricing) raise $1 billion per year that must go to the MTA's Capital Budget. The Capital Budget is what funds projects and construction, such as this proposed extension.

> Other than the net positive of reducing emissions, which could be achieved in a 1000 other ways

I think you are vastly underestimating the solutions available. Do you believe the city has unlimited money to convert private resident's vehicles into electric vehicles to address emissions? Also, one of the two primary goals of CBD Tolling is reduce congestion, which cannot be done easily either. You need an incentive to get people to not want to drive into the city. Either you make it physically impossible or harder to drive in (which will receive complaining and bitching, of course), or you enact a real cost to reduce trips into the CBD. The multi-year long Environmental Assessment analyzing CBD tolling was based on several goals, I cannot remember the exact numbers but I think it was around a 10% to 15% reduction in vehicles and vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) inside the CBD cordon zone, which are arguably real, quantifiable, net positives for the CBD. Hope that helps a little.

There’s already like two of them lol

> talking about legal ones

Idk if it's fully legal then but there is one openly operating with a storefront in Astoria right now called Amsterdam City Lounge lol, nothing secret about it!

I'm gonna fit the trope of how NYers always complain, but I can't help it, why does it feel like we're waiting unnecessarily fucking long for updated cars? Between both the LIRR and MTA it seems never ending. Look at the M9s, Kawasaki had the contract in 2013, and it took seven years before M9s were actually able to be ridden lol, is that really normal?

My bad, I really thought the gauges were different. Does that mean you could technically send a number train down a letter line since they are smaller? Mind the gap, lol

Lmao I don’t know why everyone cares we gonna still have hard seats, filth and the homeless.

I'm modestly tempted to figure out how to do this with back lights under paper or cellophane in a physical format.

The design process for these cars began back in 2012. They were already in production by the time COVID hit. Redesigning them in 2021 was never going to be a feasible endeavor.

Only boomers with fat pensions are government employees. 401K became the norm right as I graduated college in 1986.

Corporate Lobbying = illegal cartels

I wasn't qualified as a kid either but they still let me push the lever for a few min.

Come on, we're not talking about throwing them the keys and shouting "comebackinanhour". I'm sure its perfectly safe with an engineer over their shoulder backseat driving for the duration of a photo op.

They had to get all the trains that run over the Queens Blvd. Line (E, F, M, and R) running modern rolling stock that operates with modern signaling (CBTC, if you wanna look it up) because that line has been having its signals upgraded. I ride the N and used to ride the Q, and both of those lines had to give up their newer equipment for that reason.

Wdym it doesn't matter? People were fired, a show was cancelled. Why are you posting "it doesn't matter" in this piece's comments section rather than in any other given news comment section? By "it doesn't matter" you mean "it happened" and somehow that's a dismissal of something?

I mean it does seem like unionbusting as described

Can someone give us a brief summary of the features of this new train

Um, no? They aren't qualified to do that.

Yup..As someone in the field that needs to tell people the pros and cons of selecting which, those being are getting screwed. They are limited to a network of doctors, many screening that used to be covered will now need a prior authorization that can take months sometimes, medications will need prior authorizations, limited on which pharmacy and hospitals will accept them and if they need chemo...Good luck.

I like seeing common sense responses in this thread . Is the same logic as why would you replace a perfectly working car after 4 or 5 years.