Submitted by flightwaves t3_10ofpd1 in nyc
kolt54321 t1_j6mz6s8 wrote
Reply to comment by manateefourmation in MTA cuts free Wi-Fi from NYC buses by flightwaves
You mention most of NYC lines being built in 1904 as if that's a positive.
It's not. There are areas of NYC that have never seen a train station (southeast Brooklyn, swathes of east Queens) and have been waiting for over a century.
Improvements could have been made in the last 119 years, but no. That's where the MTA has failed.
Wake me up when I can get from Brooklyn to Queens in less than 2.5 hours.
manateefourmation t1_j6nqzgs wrote
I didn’t point to the age of the system as a positive, just the opposite. It’s old infrastructure running 24/7 and my point was to give the people running it credit for making it work at all. Just recently did signaling options advance out of the early 1900s.
I grew up in southeast Brooklyn and not a subway in sight. I had to take the bus to D for my early job in the city. So I feel you. The issue is the absolute ridiculous cost of building new lines - just look at the 2.5 billion per mile to build the 2 on UES. Building subways in NYC is more than twice as expensive as building subways in other places in the world. Labor unions, environmental impact and guess like everything NYC - just expensive.
As I think I said earlier, the money used to build this LIRR GCT station, tunnels and track, should have been used to the long planned light rail line between Brooklyn and Queens.
If this gets done, it will help. Still a bus from southeast Brooklyn to the light rail but cut the time dramatically.
kolt54321 t1_j6p10sa wrote
I see your point now - agree with your take. Thanks for taking the time to explain!
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