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> It's about motivation. NYC already has a subway and while it desperately needs upgrades, fixes, and expansion, doing anything is unbelievably complex. You've
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> It's about motivation. NYC already has a subway and while it desperately needs upgrades, fixes, and expansion, doing anything is unbelievably complex. You've got to be really, really motivated to cut through all that.
It's not that it's "complex"; it's that you would literally have to take on the entire political machine of both political parties in New York, along with the TWU itself[0], in order to push for the meaningful investments that the transit system needs.
[0] The MTA and TWU literally spent the last several months actively campaigning for politicians who would block the plans for upgrading the transit infrastructure. Welcome to New York!
- astrodust 8y ago> ...it's that you would literally have to take on the entire political machine of both political parties in New York... That sounds pretty complex to me. There's a considerable number of moving parts there all of which inter-relate in intractably complicated ways.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> There's a considerable number of moving parts there all of which inter-relate in intractably complicated ways. I guess by that view, all (stable) corruption is inherently complex. Which I guess isn't wrong, but I'd prefer to call a spade a spade: the problem is rampant corruption that is essentially impossible to address.
- astrodust 8y agoI'm just saying if it was easy to address it'd have been addressed, but it isn't, so that's why the situation is what it is.