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SolutionRelative4586 t1_j7fp5mm wrote

Reply to comment by baycycler in Tired of parking placard abuse? The DOT is holding a public hearing on some new rules that target parking placard abuse in loading zones on the 7th, and there aren't nearly enough comments. You can comment on the site, via email, or attend the hearing. by ThoolooExpress

We need to do projects big and small. It's important to do grand decades-long projects like GCM, upgrading tunnels under the Hudson, etc.

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baycycler t1_j7g1jkc wrote

no, a grand decades-long project would've been extending subway stations to east queens proper as well as connecting brooklyn to queens outside of literally just astoria. maybe even giving poor staten island a subway period and north bronx more love. Maybe putting walls and doors on stations so people don't accidentally fall into the tracks or fully updating a signal system that's so ancient that they literally raid their own museum for replacement parts.

GCM was a goddamn shitshow and waste of money. It went over budget by about $8 billion dollars and the pure interest on the amount of money that needed to be borrowed will be paid off by my grandkids' kids and onwards at this point. what's worse is that it could've been avoided entirely if metro north and mta played nice but they couldn't because they've got their heads up their asses high off their own shit

i do not believe that i will see a proper subway extension within my lifetime at this rate. probably not even in 100 years. yet people keep talking about how cars need to be reduced in the city. im a cyclist and i see no way cars can be reduced in manhattan properly if the poorest people who live in the outer borough literally do not have a choice in the matter because we have no goddamn subway

this isn't a ding at you, im just really pissed off at the sad state of our transit system

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