Forcing them to get their house in order. Then they can have more money to build stuff with less waste and graft.

We already have a problem. They'll just keep asking for more and barely give us anything for it.

Ban any additional funding to the MTA until they bring costs in line with comparable major cities.

The MTA doesn't need money, they need to get their house in order and stop lighting it on fire

Let me play the world's smallest violin for their fat pensions

The boomers made out like bandits. Younger generations are the ones getting fucked

Yeah the unions only care about boomers

I was recently in Singapore and the MRT made me want to cry.

> Not to mention inflation is causing issues with infrastructure costs across the country.

The city sold bonds against future tax revenue from Hudson Yards development to fund the 7 extension.

you need 3 union guys to watch the 1 doing the work.

Interest rates are way up. The MTA needs to fund construction with bonds, which are now much more expensive.

Bond interest rates

Same reason Adams brought back 4 day ASP. More money.

Make them elected then, not political appointees. It's still a bastion of NIMBY power though, and that power needs to be eroded.

It's also Polish

there's no "involvement" when the "representatives" are unelected. CBs are an overcorrection from Robert Moses and simply exist to empower NIMBYs.

Which you won't be if you aren't politically connected

CBs are unelected and should be abolished

I wrote in Garcia

All I'm saying is that they shouldn't reduce the number of existing lanes

Then you're at a train station in the suburbs with no car. Though by the time it would take to actually do that we'll have self driving cars.

Also, transit will never meet everybody's needs. It's a large country and most of it is car dependent.

What about Queens and Brooklyn residents traveling somewhere outside the city? The BQE leads to the Verrazano

A lot of the people on here are missing the fact that the BQE is a primary way to get to the Verrazano and on to NJ to get to a destination outside the city, where a car is a necessity. Simply expanding transit (which I support) instead wouldn't do anything for people leaving the city.

The cantilever section itself moves pretty well because it's after the bottleneck caused by the reduction. The backups are before the cantilever.