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134 sats \ 10 replies \ @Satosora 17 Jan \ on: New York State rejects MTA (NYC Transit) 653,599 BTC capital improvement plan Construction_and_Engineering

This is interesting. Didnt they just put in a lot of tolls to pay for something? Was that to pay for the streets, or to pay for the metro. I know that in Japan, the metro system owns the streets, so the tolls are used to pay for the maintenance of the streets and the metro system, which I think is very smart. How do you approve of a plan that is only funded 50%? Isnt that called poor planning?

20 sats \ 9 replies \ @BlokchainB OP 17 Jan

Yeah they need more fiat. Yeah I guess they wanted the state to pick up the tab.

74 sats \ 8 replies \ @Satosora 17 Jan

I know they started doing tolls in Manhattan. Is that for this project or for something else? NYC metro system has needed to be updated for years, its so unreliable.

20 sats \ 7 replies \ @BlokchainB OP 17 Jan

That was to solve two problems. Stop road congestion and to raise revenue for MTA but it’s only a tiny amount of what they need.

95 sats \ 6 replies \ @Satosora 17 Jan

It might be time to start putting an incentive to ride the metro system? Ease costs or tax people that drive their cars more? Most of the people in NYC dont actually need a car, but have one parked. Maybe it is time to do something about it? I know in Taiwan, it was cheaper just to have a scooter.

20 sats \ 5 replies \ @BlokchainB OP 17 Jan

But NYC needs to do a massive clean up effort get rid of the rats and piss smell in the elevators

77 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 17 Jan

They need to figure out what to do with the homeless. Modernizing the system would help, it would clean up a lot of it. Those are a lot of troubles they will keep facing unless they work towards a solution.

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