anonyuser415

anonyuser415 t1_jcnodxi wrote

You have the arrangement right, but the person you're replying to had it right too. It was a massive issue after post-WWI inflation. Reading the wording of the contracts I don't really get it. The contracts say the fare will be a nickle until 1966. But there it is:

> Well before [the price increased to a dime in 1948] the issue of whether to increase the fare had challenged many mayors, become the subject of campaign promises and provoked fierce clashes with powerful interest groups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/nyregion/mta-fare-hike.html

> Mayor John Hylan, who took office in 1918, made the nickel fare a linchpin of his administration and a cudgel he used against the IRT and BRT. The city’s insistence on retaining the nickel fare became a political hot potato that affected every mayor from Hylan to William O’Dwyer, who took office in 1946. During O’Dwyer’s first term, the historic nickel barrier was finally breached, but not before years of contentious, vociferous, and often bitter debates about the merits and problems of charging five cents for a ride that could be twenty miles long from Wakefield in the Bronx to East New York in Brooklyn.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780823261925-009/html

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anonyuser415 t1_j9adgbs wrote

Did y'all see the Atlanta incident where a guy was carrying 6 guns walking in a mall, and was seen loading them in a bathroom.

Prosecutors had nothing to charge him with. It's terrifying that the line between legal carry and massacre is about 5 seconds. I can't imagine officers wanting this...?

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anonyuser415 t1_j7h7lv4 wrote

> the charity’s leader made an odd request: He insisted that the store owner give him the proceeds in a check made out to his name, Anthony Devolder.

> The owner refused and made the check payable to the charity, Friends of Pets United. Days later, when he looked at his bank records, he noticed that the check had been altered: The charity’s name had been blotted out. “When it cashed, it was crossed out, and it had Anthony Devolder written on it,” the owner, Daniel Avissato, said.

More check fraud? I'm beginning to suspect George Santos is Frank Abagnale

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anonyuser415 t1_j5zingm wrote

That project was an enormous boondoggle and had so many issues that I would hope that there's a better takeaway than "no will care about the price eventually." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig#Problems

I guarantee you that the planning departments in Boston do not only see the positives of this project.

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anonyuser415 t1_j5zhulj wrote

> then completely ignore the fact that worst comes to worst, now they could shut them down

That's literally the entire point of that paragraph :) Here's the whole thing:

> East Side Access does accomplish one important goal, providing redundancy and some reliability improvements for the LIRR into Manhattan. Before ESA, the LIRR only had one track pairing and terminus in Manhattan at Penn Station. Those tunnels still haven’t been fully repaired from Hurricane Sandy damage because it would have been too disruptive to LIRR service. Redundancy and operational flexibility are important for a railroad that moves hundreds of thousands of people per weekday, especially as we look to a future of more frequent and severe storms due to climate change.

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anonyuser415 t1_j425vdw wrote

> Seems like he’s probably done some serious shit here.

The tacit implication of your comment is that it must be serious shit... if they're considering extradition.

No one has mentioned extradition. Brazil authorities are at a maximum seeking his response to this, not attempting to have him flown to Brazil.

> A spokeswoman for the Rio de Janeiro prosecutor’s office said that with Mr. Santos’s whereabouts identified, a formal request will be made to the U.S. Justice Department to notify him of the charges, a necessary step after which the case will proceed with or without him.

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anonyuser415 t1_j2airz2 wrote

The story in question: https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/endorsement-robert-zimmerman-for-us-congress-ny3

It's pretty thin on any details, and mostly focuses on the financial issues with his campaign. Unfortunately, I kind of assume almost all major politicians have financial skeletons in the closet; I doubt this would have even gone on my radar if I'd seen it at the time.

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