@criticalurban Like, New York Subway is so old that 85% of its track switches are still manual. That's not something you see in younger metro or light rail systems.
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VeteranNoob
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VeteranNoob
@VeteranNoob1
MA European History, degenerate
Katılım Eylül 2019
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@criticalurban The costs of the MTA aren't a product of density, but because the infrastructure is extremely old. Sunbelt and western US cities mostly just don't have to deal with this yet because most of their infrastructure and development is much younger.
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This is developer public relations to sell higher density development as having economies of scale. It is true to a point, except that the examination of any big city budget shows that the physical and social infrastructure costs of density exceed the economies of scale. ...
Matthew Chapman@fawfulfan
The urban core generates almost all of a typical U.S. city's tax revenue but most of it goes to fund roads, sewer lines, power lines et al in suburbs. If suburbs paid for themselves, rather than leaching off the city, I think a lot more people would be live and let live on this.
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@criticalurban Actually it's the opposite, the examination of any big city budget shows that the economies of scale of density better exceed their physical and social infrastructure costs than low-density.
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@problemochile Bed Stuy was almost entirely white at the time those brownstones were all built.
This complaint is based on the idea that every neighborhood achieved an ideal state at some point in time, such that all change before that point was good but all change after that point is bad.
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@MoodyMakar @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles A frequent BRT lane will typically carry more passengers than a car lane. That's why BRT lanes often actually reduce traffic despite reducing the number of car lanes.
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@InyoEnjoyer @VeteranNoob1 @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles It is obvious that you didn’t read or lying. It will take two lanes to be dedicated to BRT. Stop lying.
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burbank said no to a BRT line so @metrolosangeles said "you think you can say no to us? lol" and is suing them kshjagdkhsdg
get fucked, burbank 🥳
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@JerrBearr @LifeIsGr8M8 @lthlnkso @Le__Joo The issue isn't wages, its high housing costs b/c of decades of accumulated zoning overregulation on a local level. Since WW2 the US has been so dogmatically obsessed with suburbs they zone the majority of residential land for only 1 unit per lot and 5+k sqft minimum lot size
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@LifeIsGr8M8 @lthlnkso @Le__Joo 40 years ago, warehouse workers and delivery drivers could buy houses and had pensions.
Today they die of heat exhaustion in warehouses and have to pee in water bottles.
The executives being far richer than in the past certainly has nothing to do with that, right?
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We spend more on all those categories than we did when top marginal rates were much higher.
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
For decades, the top tax rate on the wealthiest Americans — like @JeffBezos — was much higher than it is today. What did we do with that money? We built roads and bridges, expanded healthcare, and invested in education. We grew the middle class. Care about economic growth? Tax billionaires.
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@MoodyMakar @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles Yet they hypocritically want to intrude on how other people develop their own private property.
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@VeteranNoob1 @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles No. They are upset that people like you make decisions that affect their lives. Get it? Now get lost.
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@MoodyMakar @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles So basically they’re upset because they’re afraid they won’t be able to oppress peoples property rights as much.
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Go back and read it “The divided City Council has been fighting for two mixed-flow lanes instead of dedicated bus lanes.
Residents rallied outside City Hall on Wednesday, expressing concern that the project will also trigger state Senate Bill 79, which would allow for the construction of 6- or 7-story apartment buildings all along the route.”
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@pavelow_pr @punished_casa Because people are lazy and often wont do something unless it’s handed to them. This isn’t about trying to baby people who don’t want to use a bath mat, it’s about reducing public spending by accounting for human irresponsibility.
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@punished_casa If it’s so cheap and effective, why aren’t the old people buying these mats themselves? You can get one from Amazon tomorrow.
Do you seriously think we need a government program to give $11 bath mats to old people? Or that our government would do so efficiently?
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Why is this getting hate? Obviously a good policy. Preventative health is how the Thais managed to get their health system in check at extremely low costs.
Senator Angus King@SenAngusKing
Prevention measures like an $11 bath mat could save Americans tens of thousands of dollars. If Medicare would send these out to every recipient in America, I’ll bet the investment would pay for itself in under a year.
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@MoodyMakar @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles Should a single household be able to veto any changes to the road it’s on? Would that be more “democratic” to you?
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@MoodyMakar @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles But the supermajority of the local county want it, so exactly what law is being violated here?
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@VeteranNoob1 @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles Hmm Taking a lane from the public to make it bus lane?? Local people don’t want that. Respect it!
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@MoodyMakar @InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles What minority right law is being violated exactly?
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@InyoEnjoyer @gatodejazz @metrolosangeles Supermajority doesn’t mean take minority rights out. Supermajority is not above the law and should abide to whatever the court says.
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@criticalurban There is no exploitation here, if this unit isn’t worth it then nobody has to rent it. It’s good for units like this to be able to exist so people can have the option to choose from a full range of different balances of cost and living space.
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Zoning and building codes are supposed to be protection against this sort of exploitation.
Degen CPA@DrewVento
You can get an apartment in manhattan for $1289. No idea why everyone says it’s so unaffordable.
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@Megmd514 @CB7Manhattan @GaleBrewerNYC @TransAlt >"Evidence that bike lanes are dangerous"
>*Look inside*
>Voluntary response survey of personal opinions
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Wait so bike lanes make life worse for businesses economically and cause a massive public safety disaster? @CB7Manhattan @GaleBrewerNYC if they continue to support such a scheme we all know they are totally bought and paid for by activists @TransAlt whose members are a fringe group of transportation extremists.
Preserve Our Brooklyn Neighborhoods@infopobn
COURT ST BIKE LANE -THE SCREW-UP Biz owners said they LOST BUSINESS FROM CUSTOMERS WHO PREVIOUSLY ARRIVED BY CAR. Many reported safety issues NEAR COLLISIONS OR NEAR-MISSES BETWEEN CYCLISTS & PEDESTRIANS thecarrollgardenstimes.substack.com/p/the-new-cour…
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@trippytrinyc @queens_parents "City proper" is the key term there, that's just the area within municipal boundaries. True Paris is one of the largest cities in the Western world.
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What is the point of NYC spending so much on something so underutilized? Has anyone followed the money on bike lanes?
Melanie@nycpix
Staten Island bike lane from Father Cap (seaside blvd where there’s a beach) to Mason Ave Not a single bicycle from the beach to hospital. Who is this intended for? @frankmorano SI is a driving boro. Will never be a bike bro enclave. This is nonsense
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@trippytrinyc @queens_parents There are a lot more people in Paris than your extended family
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@VeteranNoob1 @queens_parents Sorry meant to add I have family there when they go outside proper they use Metro not bikes.
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@trippytrinyc @queens_parents Paris' actual contiguous urban population is about the same as NYC's, Paris just hasn't expanded its municipal boundaries since the 1860s.
There's not much reason most of NYC couldn't have as good of bike infrastructure as Paris.
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@notchrisvolpe @gyaljules NYC doesn’t have clean data on fare enforcement costs because it’s split, but typically it’s around 1% of a transit agency’s operating budget while MTA buses have a farebox recovery ratio of 17%
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@VeteranNoob1 @gyaljules “That doesn’t happen most times”
I’ve been riding the subways and busses every day since high school, it happens 99% of the time.
Just say you want a jobs program for cops that costs more than it’ll ever recover and move on.
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Where are all the yimbys who spent 3 days telling us that paying workers doesn’t matter because only fast, efficient mass transit matters??
Gothamist@Gothamist
Halting buses to check if riders paid the fare threatens to undermine Mayor Mamdani's push to speed up service across the city: gothamist.visitlink.me/-pXt_0
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@notchrisvolpe @gyaljules That doesn’t happen most times, but if you want to fix the problem the solution is having a separate law enforcement department independent of the NYPD to handle fare enforcement and policing on transit like Philadelphia does, not abolishing fare checks.
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@VeteranNoob1 @gyaljules This has been answered for you too yet you keep pretending it hasn’t been.
There is no magic world where someone who is stressed out and wants to get home complies every time they’re told to get off the bus, if you’ve ever ridden one you’d know that.
quiet storm@gyaljules
@VeteranNoob1 @notchrisvolpe Yes. If they don’t get off they call NYPD and everybody’s day was fcked…
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