I'm going to state clearly on this, but this is entirely incorrect conspiracist horseshit.
If I was not having a shit night, I'd go into actually responding to this in detail over the misleading nature of it, but its just all horseshit.
What transit experts generally tell you is: the highest use of scarce resources is making transit service more *frequent & reliable*. That's what actually boosts ridership.
Everything else -- free point-of-use fare, electric buses, fancy new trolleys, architecturally fancy stations -- matters less.
Unserious, particularly amid a fuel crisis. We need:
- A design standards initiative to control first-order system costs (tunnels, grade seps, stations)
- Generous support for projects that comply (80/20)
- Steady and increased planning funding to develop proposals under these criteria
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David Roberts
Nolan Hicks
If I'm reading this right, it not only bans future conversion to OPTO, it would make the MTA put conductors on the G train and the Times Sq shuttle
Nolan Hicks
Someone should put a price tag on the Indian Point fiasco.
Summer of Hell levels of meshugas from the PATH. The Port Authority clearly isn’t interested in running it — and never has been.
It’s time to move it to NYCT as the third subway division. Put it in an organization that thinks in headways.
