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I’m not an anti-car person but I think you have a few misconceptions: - A lot of well off people who could flag a taxi or Uber still take the NYC subway becaus

by jrpt 3y ago

I’m not an anti-car person but I think you have a few misconceptions: - A lot of well off people who could flag a taxi or Uber still take the NYC subway because it is very convenient and has incredible coverage. All sorts of New Yorkers use it. Also, you can get from the airport to Manhattan just as fast if not faster on the LIRR, and at a fraction of the cost. (In the SF Bay Area on the other hand, the trains are pretty bad for getting to the airport!) - Public transit is almost never intended to operate at a profit. They intentionally subsidize it, both for people with low income, and to make routes to suburbs where the route might not have the ridership to really justify it, but the planners think it is still important for political reasons (like if a district is paying for some transit service, everyone in the district should get some stations).

koolba 3y ago
> Public transit is almost never intended to operate at a profit. Fiscally sustainable does not have to mean turning a profit or refusing to take any external tax dollars for funding. But it also can't be $3 billion over budget (on a $20 billion budget) every year with a fiscal timebomb about to go off when their COVID bailout expires: https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics [1] [1]: Same link from wayback machine from Dec 2023 in case the MTA changes it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231203043132/https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics https://web.archive.org/web/20231203043132/https://new.mta.i...