oreosfly

oreosfly t1_je5vk6t wrote

As someone who knows nothing about repairing roads.. why do they mill the street and then leave it in that condition for weeks before repaving? Milled roads are terrible for cars, terrible for bikes, and terrible for air quality in the surrounding neighborhood.

Is there an engineering reason as to why they cannot mill on night 1 and replace on night 2? Or is it just a logistical thing?

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oreosfly t1_je5bspc wrote

  • They do not perform any MetroCard transactions anymore.

  • The stroller issue could be solved by installing an OMNY and MetroCard reader at the gate, or by installing ADA compliant turnstiles like every other sane country has done.

  • The blue MTA help points can be used for directions.

I’m not attacking you or saying you’re wrong or anything, but every conceivable function that station agents perform can be replaced by more efficient, usable, and cheaper alternatives.

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oreosfly t1_je3j6y9 wrote

LIRR conductors are worse. The agency spends an average of $200k per conductor on salary and benefits, and the job literally involves you walking up and down the train and scanning fucking QR codes. A local moron off the street can do that job.

The MTA should install fare gates on commuter railroads, downsize the conductor workforce, and use the remaining conductors to spot check... even with the fare beating increase it'll save money over paying people to do the same work.

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oreosfly t1_jdvzwco wrote

> Those people get a lot of their cost information from the Internet.”

Do you know why researchers have to go to the ends of Earth to find cost information about the MTA? Because the MTA refuses to fucking disclose how they spend money, even though that money comes from taxpayers.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/11/15/why-doesnt-the-mta-actually-tell-us-what-its-paying-for/

> “In New York, there are itemized costs prepared by independent cost estimators to inform the MTA when evaluating fixed-price bids, but … those costs are considered a trade secret of the agency, not to be publicized or else it would interfere with the bidding process,” researchers Eric Goldwyn, Alon Levy, Elif Ensari and Marco Chitti wrote in an upcoming report from the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management.

I can go on Google for a random road construction project and find its itemized cost. How do I know? Because I just fucking did it - here’s an itemized invoice from Florida DOT for a road repaving and widening project in the middle of god damn nowhere

https://fdotwww.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity/docs/default-source/programmanagement/estimates/documents/cost-per-mile-model-reports/rural/rural-23.pdf?sfvrsn=bd45a5ec_4

How much did it cost taxpayers to remove litter on the roadside for this project? $102. How is the MTA spending $120 million dollars for elevators at the Hunter College station? Who the fuck knows

This smug fuck Janno Lieber cautions that researchers do not have any first party sources when it comes to MTA costs yet his agency refuses to make those costs public.

I refuse to support another penny going to the MTA until they are fully transparent on how they spend their money.

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oreosfly t1_jczljjb wrote

Like any other job, there’s also an unquantifiable morale cost when it comes to forced OT. If you are actively looking for OT then it must be great to get paid time and a half for all this extra time. If you don’t want to revolve your life around work so much, you may be inclined to quit, and it can cost quite a bit to hire and train new people.

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oreosfly t1_jcnsvzw wrote

SI has some of the longest average commutes in the country.

> https://www.silive.com/news/2015/09/staten_island_keeps_spot_among.html

The average one way commute in the United States is 27.6 minutes. Obnoxiously long commutes are pretty common NY metro area but Staten Island and the Bronx are absolute monstrosities compared to the rest of the country.

> https://www.silive.com/data/2022/05/new-york-counties-with-the-longest-commutes-where-does-staten-island-rank.html

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oreosfly t1_jcluph3 wrote

> Some of you bitter racist people need to stop with the racist comments

Unfortunately some terrible people never let a crisis go to waste…

Nonetheless, the fact that a) this restaurant has a history of questionable food safety practices, and b) DOH’s follow up inspection found evidence of live rodents in the restaurant, it’s better to be safe than sorry and shutting the place down was the right move.

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oreosfly t1_jc4oh0d wrote

That's the shittiest part of this situation. We have so much to lose. Sure, we could deck one of those teenagers and knock them the fuck out and in defense of another kid, but if we are arrested or our names are dragged through the mud by a bunch of Twitter warriors, our paychecks, housing, careers, and livelihoods might be toast. These bum teenagers along with the bum adults who breed them have nothing to lose by acting like a bunch of zoo animals in public. Unless the government holds them accountable for their actions, we're powerless against them.

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oreosfly t1_jb6wyh6 wrote

ABC7 updated their article with the following info:

> When McIver was initially arrested in 2019, bail was set at $250,000. But he was released on his own recognizance in March 2020 after prosecutors failed to act in time under the speedy trial law.

> He was given a second chance and offered a no jail plea if he completed two years of treatment. He accepted, knowing that if he failed, he would be sent to prison the full five years.

A no prison plea for an attempted kiddie rapist? This city is run by fucking morons. Sentence him to treatment all you want but he can receive that treatment in prison.

God I fucking hate this place sometimes

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oreosfly t1_j9yvyxb wrote

The point is to route traffic around the CBD, though. If you make all roads cost the same, then people will say "well, I'm paying the same shit anyways so I might as well continue cutting through Manhattan". The entire purpose of congestion pricing is to route people around Manhattan rather than through it.

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