It’s an interstate extensions designated as such so yeah I would guess so

Building a highway straight into a downtown has never been regretted! Definitely something to eagerly anticipate.

Even though the rise in crime happened in states without bail reform too?

There’s still not evidence tying a rise in crime to bail reform and people’s opinions are almost exclusively influenced by the media they consume which has been on a non-stop campaign to reverse bail reform for years.

But yeah, let’s go back to the system that didn’t work for 40 years because you think this one didn’t work for what, 2?

Either developers are greedy money grabbers or they’re building money-losing empty buildings, which is it?

you don’t get why people would want to build housing?

Less than they would by not replacing a car, purchasing a less flashy model, or maybe not IDLING THEIR ENGINES 24/7(?!)!) lol. Their fleet is huge and part of the problem of why you never see cops actually walking a beat.

Nowhere did I mention that EVs are better than gas engines. Reddit loves a strawman!

Draining taxpayer money on toys.

Make them get the most boring uncool sedans imaginable. Make them wear goofy uniforms. Make them feel like the employees that they are, not some rogue army.

car people are so weird lol

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He was a progressive in the way a lot of New Yorkers like to think of themselves as progressive - I'm not racist, let's help out the less fortunate, sure it's ok to tax me more, wait there's someone who looks scary who just made eye contact with me, can we get a cop over here?

You can't just change the spelling of something because it doesn't fit lol

My first reaction to this photo was just astounded at the amount of vehicle litter lol. So depressing to live in the middle of a parking lot, but when every street is a parking lot….

“public transit brings crime” is one of the most classic racist dog whistles out there. so if you didn’t mean it that way, you should probably stop saying it.

so many better things this could go to that would benefit way more people than a train connecting a bunch of parking lots.

do the boulevard subway. or at least use the alignment for KOP rail that went along 202

Maybe they'll be assholes about it, but that's different than congestion pricing actually costing them more. It will save them money. Whether they pass that along at all has nothing to do with congestion pricing.

If it means less congestion getting in the way of delivery trucks it will probably make them cheaper.

oh man, the self-whooshing

you’ll pay for it with car payments and gasoline

historic preservation can be incredibly dumb.

glad you made it here! don't pull up the ladder behind you.

dude, catch up on the news, starting with the article this whole comment section is about.

We’re not “bringing them in”. They’re coming here or being shipped here. I’m arguing for building housing (a long term solution) and expanding shelters (a short term one.)

We don’t need to house these people indefinitely for free but it’s ridiculous to say we don’t have the resources to provide infrastructure to give them a landing place for a week or two while they figure out their final landing place. These people aren’t coming here expecting free room and board for life, they have a plan and then some asshole in Texas ships them here and they don’t know where they are or how to get where they wanted to go. We can give them a place to regroup and also work on having enough housing so that they can afford the rent if they want to stay, along with everyone else who wants to live here.

If you think that’s fantasyland then I’m not sure what kind of positive vision for the city you possibly have because it really isn’t that imaginative.

I completely understand how much housing we need. Which is why we should build it and should have been building it for decades. What are you arguing in favor of exactly?

most new yorkers didn’t start out their lives here.

building new housing as a general concept is explicitly about new people coming in. if no one were coming in, a housing shortage wouldn’t develop. building housing helps everyone. you can’t do it for some people without affecting others, i don’t even know how that would work.