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NJTransit and Subways failing at the same time makes it really hard for commuters especially ones with families and kids who need to be picked up and dropped at
by perseusprime11 9y ago
NJTransit and Subways failing at the same time makes it really hard for commuters especially ones with families and kids who need to be picked up and dropped at day care and schools. The lack of leadership and vision are making Big Apple into a third world country. What good is it for customers to have free wifi on Streets but failing subways.
- vonmoltke 9y agoI commute in from Jersey and I have booked a few hotel stays since the derailments because I would have to leave the house well before 7 to guarantee making it in by 9.
- perseusprime11 9y agoIs your company paying?
- zanny 9y agoPoliticians do not operate on the principal of what is good for customers. They operate on whether or not doing something increases their odds of reelection, or in the case of term limits whether an action will make themselves or their successor look good. In the cases you described, putting a wifi mesh net topside is something that can be done in weeks. Revamping a hundred year old subway that woefully needs tens of billions of dollars of renovations that would probably take a decade to complete raise taxes while you are in office while your successor 2 terms later reaps the rewards. If they even get that far - the tragedy of ignorant voters is how long term vision doesn't get anyone votes. If you raise taxes now, you probably won't be in office tomorrow, even if that tax raise would make every constituent you have a millionaire 5 years from now, and they would elect a replacement whose entire platform is to undo what you did, because the immediate pain is much more meaningful to them in the voting booth than the long term promise.