Never said there wasn’t waste (tons of it ) are you saying there is none in Paris

Should we count all of the MTA system? Counting Long Island and Westchester county ? Sounds like that’s what you are doing. Subway is just one part of the whole system. Since you want to compare.
Let’s do miles of track just in the city 140 vs 250 (800 miles if you count double used tracks )just in NYC not including the rest of the system I’ll use your metric the greater nyc area is 6720 square miles. Let’s take off 60% because some of that is NJ. That’s still 2600 sq miles. Paris system is dwarfed by NYC MTA. If you compare apples to apples and even when you compare JUST NYC vs Paris city only system (not outside ) still a big difference. Nobody is shitting on the Paris one it’s just comparing the NYC one to Paris is not really relevant

Why? The NYC system covers the entire NYC not just one Borough. Paris is around 140 miles vs 7-800 miles for NYC. For the sheer size of the NYC system it’s pretty damn efficient.

 If the systems we’re self contained by borough I’m sure the Manahattan one would be pristine and the other ones would get so little funding that they would be horrible 

 I agree they shouldn’t be compared but then you say you think the Paris one is as wide or wider than the NYC one ?  That part is confusing. You can’t be saying the Paris one is bigger ?

I think you can’t really compare them. The sheer size and coverage of the NYC subway system dwarfs the Parisian one. Different types of cities ( I would assume ) have different needs (Zone systems so if you have a short commute it may be cheaper Vs the one price for all no matter the difference. Either way it’s not horrible that you can get to anywhere (I assume Paris one covers the whole city also ) in the city for a few bucks

“Measure twice,cut once “.

How about nice big golf umbrella for the spring