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The causality is circular, though. Without the MTA, NYC wouldn't be nearly as dense. Construction followed the lines, not the other way around. It does help t
by jacques_chester 8y ago
The causality is circular, though.
Without the MTA, NYC wouldn't be nearly as dense. Construction followed the lines, not the other way around.
It does help that NYC is a unified polity. If the 5 boroughs had remained independent it would be as messy as the Bay Area. The exclusion of Westchester, Suffolk, nearer Long Island and the parts of NJ out to say Seacaucus have a noticeable distortionary effect on the architecture of mass transit in the tri-state area.
- dehrmann 8y ago> The causality is circular, though. Maybe more reinforcing than circular, but I take your point. > It does help that NYC is a unified polity. It's comically bad in the Bay Area with so many local transit agencies jockeying for power. It's a miracle they were able to get a unified payment system built-out. Something that I hate about NYC is taking a taxi from Newark to NYC. Newark taxis can't pick up in NYC, so they have to drive back to Jersey.