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134 sats \ 10 replies \ @Satosora 17 Jan \ on: New York State rejects MTA (NYC Transit) 653,599 BTC capital improvement plan Construction_and_Engineering
This is interesting.
Didnt they just put in a lot of tolls to pay for something?
Was that to pay for the streets, or to pay for the metro.
I know that in Japan, the metro system owns the streets, so the tolls are used to pay for the maintenance of the streets and the metro system, which I think is very smart.
How do you approve of a plan that is only funded 50%?
Isnt that called poor planning?
Yeah they need more fiat. Yeah I guess they wanted the state to pick up the tab.
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That was to solve two problems. Stop road congestion and to raise revenue for MTA but it’s only a tiny amount of what they need.
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It might be time to start putting an incentive to ride the metro system?
Ease costs or tax people that drive their cars more?
Most of the people in NYC dont actually need a car, but have one parked.
Maybe it is time to do something about it?
I know in Taiwan, it was cheaper just to have a scooter.
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But NYC needs to do a massive clean up effort get rid of the rats and piss smell in the elevators
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Yeah but it also is a culture and morality issue as well. Toyko has many more people than NYC and yet their metro system is so clean. No one trying to steal fares and it’s not looked down upon if you take it both rich and poor use it. Here in the USA people treat it like garbage
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Right, so mindset and the culture needs to change.
Japan and Taiwan have better metro systems, and they respect that it is open for use all the time.
It makes it so practical.
When I was living in Taiwan, my mrt card was kept full so I could go anywhere.
Most of the time, it was faster to take the mrt than it was to drive or take an uber.