I thought the Bay Ridge and UWS C21s had bettter selections than downtown, probably because they weren’t catering to tourists.

False equivalency. Queens needs a lot of new train lines, but not this one at what will inevitably be a much higher price tag than estimated. $8 billion? Cute, try tripling it. Every bridge needs to be rebuilt because they’ve been abandoned for decades and aren’t structurally sound. And there are a LOT of bridges along this line. They’d have to eminent-domain the Home Depot at Metropolitan and Woodhaven, and probably a lot of private homes as well. These neighborhoods aren’t even transit deserts, but eastern Queens certainly is.

This ain’t it.

They also pave every single mile of road! And maintain every traffic signal. And replace every worn out sign. And maintain most of the bridges, and run the Staten Island Ferry…it’s a huge agency with a crapload on its plate.