50% Less G Service Coming Our Way
During the Thursday meeting, The MTA is expected to: completely do away with the “W” line, which runs from Queens to Manhattan, and the “Z” line, which runs through Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Also on the chopping block: service will be cut in half on the “G” line, which runs from Queens to Brooklyn; and…
Makes me wish I lived in Hong Kong again, which has superior, up-to-date MTR service.
sam: awesome troll.
I don’t really agree with Sam’s observation that the car lifestyle is sustainable, but I do agree that the MTA is a dinosaur.
What’s frustrating is that there’s been high-profile and pretty rapid progress in auto development recently (at least in terms of getting off gas and having less of a carbon footprint), and virtually no progress in updating the MTA. So the L Train has new electronic information boards. Great. A hybrid bus here and there. Great. There are still B61 drivers that don’t even know the route they’re supposed to drive.
I lived in the UK 10 years ago and at least in terms of information being given to the passengers, the transit system *then* was ahead of what the MTA provides *now* – you have to figure the MTA is at least 20 years behind the curve, so there’s obvious room for vast improvements, but no motivation to actually accomplish anything.
People in London wouldn’t necessarily agree that they have great public transportation. Trains are more crowded, there are frequent service disruptions, and a single ride costs north of $5. Nobody wants to pay more, but the reality is that running a transit system costs a lot of money.
Sam – are you off your rocker? You’rte living in la la land.
And anyway – what is so bad about MTA – how many million people does it get to work each day? Trying doing that in cars and see what happens.
Sam, why is it that Paris, London, Tokyo, Seoul and many other world capitals have great public transportation and the US just can’t pull it off? Are we just lousy at it? Have we lost out edge?
Rational and original? Maybe you should read The Power Broker and then come back and read your opinion and see if you say the same thing.
Oh yeah, and all that tax payer money that the Big 3 Auto companies are now asking for is not about sustainability at all.
I think that I am being very rational and original. It is not the car that is unsustainable, it is the subways. Cars are getting better and cheaper, subways are horrible and ever more expensive. I am not approaching this on ideological grounds, just pragmatic grounds. The MTA is an insatiable monster. No matter how much money you throw at it, it wants more, more, more. It is a monopoly that has been allowed to get away with horrible service and minimal customer satisfaction. It is just horrible, crowded, awful, and antagonistic public utility. Such a dysfunctional, expensive, badly-run, anti-modern, dinosaur-era transit system deserves too go extinct. Either Obama decides to nationalize the dinosaur (the only chance it has) or it dies. I don’t see what is so controversial about those observations.
Sam, that is so whack that I’m going to take the high road and assume you were being sarcastic.