The issue is always no accountability. Tax revenue is essentially unlimited.....

>So it has racist, classist origins

Of course it does. End of day charging people just keeps the "poors" away from the beaches.

As we all should be doing (if you have the opportunity, then do it and get yourself a raise).

Cuomo may have won the battle by forcing out Byford, but Byford has destroyed Cuomo in the war. Ironically Byford left at almost the perfect time as well, right before the scandal started.

Self fulfilling prophecy when politicians (and people) dont give a shit about public transit.

I am in similar situation (actually almost exact same) and I file both state taxes. I pay NYS tax and get rebate credits on my NJ taxes. You will not pay NYC tax however, since youre not resident of NYC.

Damn thats nasty. Worst part is I think ive been there before couple of years ago.

Honestly Im curious too. Is it just really cheap and unsafe batteries from China causing these explosions or what?

Aside from living in Jersey City or Hoboken, you WILL need a car in majority of other places. If not for commuting but for doing regular things like going to grocery store and what not.

Im going to be honest here and say America. Ironically I am an immigrant who came here as a kid, but I do feel more American than even my original ethnicity. But it also depends where Im at, and in the US i feel less American in a way. Obviously traveling the US I will identify with NJ more, but if youve been to other parts of the world, youll see how homogenous the US really is. Its pretty much all suburbs everywhere whether its NJ, Florida, or Arizona, it feels VERY similar (compared to other countries obviously). But I will admit when I do travel I always only tell people I am from NYC/NJ (code word for "I work in city but live in NJ") so theres that.

I would say in our case we need at the bare minimum a interstate agency solely dedicated to transit in our metropolitan area. We have like 5 agencies now serving NJ and NY and all act in their own self interests, instead of the interest of commuters and citizens. As others mentioned a federal agency isnt really ideal here.

As someone who has to travel thru Penn, I am very jealous. GCT is like 1000x better than Penn.....

>Transit options are nice and this one sure is pretty cool but not so cool when it is at a ridiculous cost.

Completely agree with everything you said, but I will say that in a decade no one will care about these cost overruns.

End of day we should absolutely do what you said, but getting overly expensive infrastructure built is better than saving money and not building anything. Its sad that we're in the a state were its either or.....

They completely stopped giving a fuck after the blm riots.

Might as well convert them to yield signs at this point...

Damn I still remember watching some live streams of shitload of police following and barricading the protesters marching up 8th ave while at the exact same time Soho was getting looted all over the place. Like someone surely gave them the order just let all that shit go right?

Lol i thought I was looking at r/nyc and was about to ask where you found the pork roll. I tell all my friends in ny they gotta try pork roll.

Lmfao how are people genuinely that stupid...

I mean even if you say traffic deaths equal gun shooting deaths, its still a pretty damning statistic Id say.

Maybe the other parts of country should do more to keep smart people there? Maybe think about why everyone is moving to coastal cities.....

Honestly overall that sounds pretty good. We need housing asap and things like environmental reviews are really not that important right now especially for smaller housing.

No i didnt honestly. Do you have a quick summary of what he said about that?

I know he has appeared on some talk shows and distanced himself from Trump lately, but maybe that was just my interpretation.

Thats why he won re-election.

But its a shame that later Christie threw away a lot of the that earned "respect" by trying to bow down to Trump to get into his administration. Maybe it wasnt as bad as the Ted "your wife is ugly Cruz" situation, but still I lost respect for him. I will also never forgive him for cancelling the Gateway project....even if NJ would have been screwed financially, setting it off by decade still screwed us even more.

Yep i meant to say she is now* getting famous so it might work out for her. Of course doesnt excuse throwing beer on stage

She handled the situation well and is now getting famous of it. Ironic that a dumbass maga guy throwing a beer led to that.