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.
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.
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Nolan Hicks
This guy gets it..
—Validators for PAYGO/electronic ticketing
—Proof-of-payment
—Eliminate assistant conductors/collectors
—Lower fares
The game plan is not that new or complicated. MTA is too inept to make it happen. Easier to keep raising fares & beg Albany for another tax when that doesn't work.
Less than 5 hours after service was suspended for 17 hours to fix a switch problem, PATH now reports a track condition near Hoboken.
PATH service was operating normally for two (2) minutes this morning.
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
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
In case you still haven't caught on. The explosions are intentional but not in the way you think. They're getting huge government contracts, spending one tenth of it making a trash firework, then they'll go back to the well end take more taxpayer money. This is not a new scam. Space X does this too
Someone should put a price tag on the Indian Point fiasco.
Nolan Hicks
I have to admit, I'm shocked this passed the legislature after last year.
It is the equivalent of requiring elevator operators. It's a policy that exists nowhere else in the world.
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.
Relying basically only on commute data for planning for a century was an enormous mistake.
