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I don't understand your comment, the point of those article is to make more visible that roads are expensive and that some of it might be better used to improve

I don't understand your comment, the point of those article is to make more visible that roads are expensive and that some of it might be better used to improve transit or alternative transportation (it's in the subtitle). So all your complaints on NYC transit and bike lanes illustrate that money should be redirected to improve those ...

codekansas 3y ago
Well the article includes things like lost productivity due to sitting in traffic, so I think it's fair to point out that there's lost productivity due to train delays. The MTA creates a lot of its own issues though. The bare minimum for a public transit system, in my opinion, should be reliable estimates of how long it will take you to get somewhere, but for non-rush hour trips estimates on the MTA are pretty hit or miss. I've heard this is because the switch operators are all running on some ancient system which is impossible to computerize, but for a system that has tens of billions of dollars in funding I find it hard to buy that they've exhausted every possible option.