FlamingoOutrageous15 t1_iwrub0p wrote on November 17, 2022 at 9:42 PM

All our roads and some of our bridges rely entirely on tax revenue to function. Why is that infrastructure different from supporting the MTA with tax revenue, especially since way more people can be moved with an upgraded train system versus a highway? NYC is also a part of NY State, over half of the states population lives in the NYC metro area, of course there should be state support.

TeamMisha t1_iws5xau wrote on November 17, 2022 at 11:05 PM

Agreed, it's a public service, it should not "have" to be 100% profitable and yes it should be kept in a good position via state revenue. It is a state agency, it's the governor's and senate's responsibility to keep it in good working order and to hold bad actors (i.e. inefficiency) accountable. Highways purely from a budget perspective lose billions, we toll few of our highways and still have unpaid bridges all around the city. The subway could lose billions too, but without it the city would crumble since you could not move the millions of workers around.