They may have an audit, but it's not always gonna show it's true colors. It's too many hands in the cookie jar and secret meetings behind closed doors gets the trash picked up and curbside.
The tons of mindless wanna be rich and the Actual rich who use the systems the long existed there. they only reason they dont all leave is because they would have to rebuild the stock market somewhere else. and they dont wanna fund that. Actually give them an alternative and they would leave in a heartbeat. of course is the cost of buisness starts getting to expensive due to theft and crime eventually not even that can keep them there so as long as the few main financial megaprojects stay in NYC the city will shamble on like a zombie
They keep voting for this and wonder why it doesn't change. Same reason the whole country is going down. Just wait til every house is at least a million dollars, maybe then people will fight back
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
@@BsBsBockActually the government started neglecting public transportation in favor of private personal vehicles, which of course was to benefit auto manufacturers. The government's job is to facilitate capitalism by removing any obstacles that obstruct private profits.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
@@marimercy14 "THEY" have no idea what they are doing , that is why is the city of N Y and the whole state is spinning around the drain hole like the last time you flushed your commode .?
@@davekinghorn9567 New York is a paradise I live here everyday no crime here Mayor Adams is doing a great job keeping everyone safe keep borders open vote blue Biden 2024!!
In Cali they are fining the stores for making too many calls to the police. 😮 I guess that helps the crime statistics. Blame the stores, they stop making calls, crime went down. 😢
How is the subway not getting sued for not being handicap accessible?? Having an elevator several stops away from where you want to go is not ADA compliant. WTF New York?!!
The stations came before ADA compliance so now they are slowly converting stations to be accessible but the fact that they have to subcontract with firms to survey their stations for renovation slows their progress by a lot(working with third party etc.,.)along with obvious mishandling of their budget. But I do give them credit because the MTA have converted quite a lot of stations over the years that I frequently used like the 8th avenue and 59th street stations in Brooklyn along the N line. In recent months they sealed off sections of my parents' local F stop at Briarwood to add elevators for accessibility as well. Cash Jordan is a republican shill and grifter that's sensationalizing everything to appear 100x worse than reality, his goal is simply to stoke fear and discontent towards NYC. Not that I am pro-democrat, I'm neither but seeing propaganda like this is infuriating to say the least.
I was. Born and raised in Brooklyn all my life of 59 years and worked for transit for 34 years and retired from it and I can tell you that what ever cash they say would help fix the subway is a lie😮MTA squanders what ever cash they get and nothing will get done.
I'm 24, was born in Harlem, raised in the Bronx and it's crazy how bad everything's gotten in just a few years too. When I was in high school, the subway was bearable (I had to commute downtown), but now it just sounds like a hot mess. I rarely use the subway anymore, and this just makes me want to avoid it altogether. It's truly worrying for everyone who needs public transport daily and one can only hope something will change for the better
Politicians that run the states are millionaires but the states are getting poorer.... Maybe need to fight to stop politicians from giving themselves big pay rises and make them put money into things the states need ??
@@birdsmokoYou should have seen the difference between before computers, internet, cell phones and social media and NOW. We used to trust one another to say "pump gas and THEN pay ". Neither of my two best friends of 30 years I carpooled to college with are white. Look what we have now. I lettered on the r¡fle team in high school before mass x'ings became a thing too. Maybe it's time to start asking WHAT HAPPENED? I remember most businesses closing on Sunday. Yea, maybe us Christians spent our day with God but we also spent time with family, friends, events where people socialized. Everyone took a break at the same time on the same day. We certainly didn't make it 250 years like we are NOW! So again, I ask; WHAT HAPPENED?
Except the system as it is currently was originally built and designed in the 1940"s. How many public or private pieces of infrastructure do you know that is that old doesn't need massive modernization as you put or just outright completely rebuilt. The problem with the NYC mass transit system is decades old and is primarily the fault of the residents of NYC who refused to pay to keep the system up to date or refused to accept the inconvenience that would be necessary to completely transform the system. To see what NYC needs to do just look at London. Its residents bit the bullet paid for the system to be revamp and dealt with the delays and now have one of the most efficient mass transit systems in the world. Is it perfect no it was made by humans, but it is far superior to what NYC has today.
@@dominican200 New York is a paradise I live here everyday no crime here Mayor Adams is doing a great job keeping everyone safe keep borders open vote blue Biden 2024!!
I live in Atlanta but visit NYC 2-3 times per year. The last time I used the subway in 2016, a visibly ill homeless man who had crapped in his pants, was sleeping in the subway car. The entire car smelled like a sewer - people walked in, took one sniff, and walked out. Since that day, my wife and I just use Uber. NYC used to be a beacon to the US; now, it exists as a warning. Local elections matter - be careful who you put into power.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
We are being gaslit! The MTA is withholding services and blaming it on financial woes. It's draconian and the MTA should be investigated and held accountable. To blame the reduction of services on the congestion pricing pullback is obscene. Subway and train fares are through the roof and they never fix infrastructure. NYC has the most expensive subway system in the world and the MTA suits cry poor while summering in the Hamptons. Pathetic.
Yes that is a ploy. Forced coercion. They have misappropriated revenue in past. There were employees of MTA that were indicted years ago on fraudulent actions.
Nope. You clearly never use mta. I bus to work and some days - not trips, DAYS - NO ONE PAYS. The entire route of kings highway. That's just one bus, one way. How much is that going on throughout the hundreds of bus lines that travel every hour of every day? That is a ton of losses
@@jamesneese7663 I’ve noticed the same thing! And when you do pay the fare, you have to stand up the entire time because people who didn’t pay the fare got to the seats before you did because you bothered paying the fare! So many people not paying, it has to add up at some point! I still believe the MTA should be investigated!
Cameltoee Harris, just the other day was saying "This administration has spent a Trillion US dollars on infrastructure in the last year". Vote for liers get lies.
The Seoul transportation budget (including every type of transportation) is about 1.7b dollar. The entire city 2024 budget is 29b dollar. I can't even begin to understand what is going on in NYC.
The 19.8B operating cost is the entire MTA, which runs the buses, several railroads, and the tunnels and bridges. It also ignores operating revenue. The net operating flow is about $8B cost. That's roughly equal to the amount actually contributed by the governments. Considering NYC has 4x the population, it seems pretty reasonable at a glance.
@@MauveAlerts Well with that context and the fact that labor is more expensive it actually makes some sense that it might take 20b dollars for a well functioning transport system, but for what it seems here it is nothing close to one. I've never been to NY so I can't really tell for my self.
Union labor = american citizen worker ! how is that not a Win or you prefer a mexican guy do it price 50% off and pay no tax you complaine over the wrong stuf
I refuse to regularly use subways in NYC. Its not that I hate public transit, I use public transport in europe all the time. Its just that NYC transit is broken, scarry, smelly, and slow.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
As in any democratic system, one only gets the political competence the majority of voters vote for. You could make the excuse that the politicians (in this case, and many, many other cases across the United States, Democrat politicians) broke their promises, but if you keep voting the same party in again and again, having been given promises (often the same promises), you only have yourselves to blame
@@kasumimori1798 I think you forgot the human factor here. Don't matter Red or Blue it will happen. lol. Would you leave your wallet on a park bench for 10 mins ? Everything I own I worked for and bought myself. Didn't no politician have one thing to do with it. Come save me biden. Come save me trumpy. lolol
Like so many other things this issue isn't a funding problem, its a spending problem. After all, we're all paying EVEN MORE taxes since everything is so expensive! And yet the problems stay the same? Where's that money going then? Spot on!
Man, I love your channel and the way you cover everything. You are the best! It’s so informational and I learned so much. If only the lawmakers and governors and other people would take the time to watch your channels, they would be able to figure things out or come up with better plans. Please don’t ever stop. You’re the best journalist New York has ever had. I look forward to your videos daily thank you again for all your time and effort that you put into making these videos. I appreciate you.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
@@halogeek6 Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
I live in Tehran-Iran if theres one thing i love about Tehran is the metro system many of my profs have studied in US or Canada and they all tell horror stories about north american transit
After 12 years, I’ve been out of the city for three weeks and I already feel renewed. If you’re thinking that if I just hang on, NYC will become better for working people, you’re dreaming.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
They’re squandering the money. Even on weekends when they shut down lines for repairs or track maintenance, I rarely see the contractors doing any work.
isn't it amazing how there is enough tax money to give migrants free housing and free visa cards with money on it, but then their also isn't enough money for the subway infrastructure. NYC has their own brand of math, that fails at basic multiplication.
Typical New Yorkers, can’t build a fair city where people actually want to live and work because they coddle the upper classs balls so much, so they just blame the criminals just trying to survive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Typical New Yorkers, can’t build a fair city where people actually want to live and work because they coddle the upper classs balls so much, so they just blame the criminals just trying to survive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I came for the interesting real estate videos but I’m staying for the only honest look at the rapid decline of a once beloved city. Thanks for letting people see what is really going on.
Up until 4 years ago I came to NYC as a tourist once or twice a year. Paid lots of money for hotels, restaurants, shows, museums, etc. After witnessing two muggings and increased trash on the sidewalks, I decided that I would discontinue my visits. Probably will never go back. Too bad.
Nearly two decades ago I made a Amtrak connection at Penn Station and didn't feel safe walking around Madison Square Garden. I shall never make a connection in New York City again...
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Fun Fact: The Subways used to work fine long before congestion pricing was even an idea because people paid the fare and fare evaders got arrested. And crime prevention policies like "Stop and Frisk" kept the subways safer!
It's striking to see how New York City's tax dollars are being utilized, alongside the recurring pattern of releasing repeat offenders. I wonder if NYC residents share the same concerns about this issue, or if it's a perspective more readily apparent to international observers like myself.
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Yes. He paints. That's a perfect word for it. A great deal of this is fear mongering. This is entertainment for all you small town folks who want someone to blame that the empire is falling.
here in Chile the Santiago Metro system is a triumph for a country with the limitations that we have (it's constantly cited as one of the best in the world), yet it was the first thing to be vandalize by the mob when protests took place 🤦 and you may ask, did the protests achieved their purpose at least? NOPE, we got elections for a new constitution that wasn't approved at the end TWICE (that costs money), the Metro system had to be repaired (more money), and ultimately the same politicians that supported the protests were put in charge of the government (now almost everyone wants them out, which means we wasted more money on them). Absolutely embarrasing.
'Everyone who doesnt use the subway has to pay a tax to provide the subway for everyone who refuses to pay their fare.' New York sounds like a Monty Python skit sometimes.
Unfortunately, there are transit simps that think otherwise. The MTA gets $20 billion and it goes to waste. Projects such as Grand Central Madison, which was to bring the LIRR to Grand Central was $7 Billion overbudget alone. The money would've gone to waste.
When congestion pricing was catching wind, they said this thing is supposed to cause less cars into Manhattan. However, they also projected that it will make them so much money, so which means they use the projection as if cars still come in so they never really truly intended for cars not to come in anymore just so they can get the money.
I live in NYC, he massively exaggerates some of what's going on for doomer clicks, but I won't deny it's addicting to watch lol. City's a shithole, but outside of Manhattan is generally pretty alright
You should make the trip. You'll find out these videos are mostly B.S. with a political incentive. There are about 20 other posters walking around NYC day and night that show a completely different safe prospective. Check them out.
@@Commenter839I went in 2018 for my 50th birthday. I’m so glad I got to experience NYC pre-2020. I’d never been before and absolutely fell in love with it and the people. So it’s really not as bad as we’re told?
@@juliecleveland1837 I mean, I've been living in NYC over a decade and counting (not in Manhattan though) and while I've seen plenty of sketchy people, I've never been the victim of a violent crime there. And I'm not a scary-looking person either; I'm a relatively scrawny woman. I used to work in Manhattan too (commuted 1.5 hrs via subway and bus) and still go there pretty often just to hang out and explore restaurants. That's easily the borough where I run into the most nutjobs in the wild, but none of them have done anything to me (let's hope I didn't jinx myself) and they're usually easy to avoid. Manhattan is also the only borough where I've had the lovely fortune of spotting fresh hot turds in the middle of subway walkways. But despite all that it's not total anarchy, the vast majority of people in NYC are genuinely just trying to live a normal life. I think something I do consistently agree with in these videos is that the justice system is way too lenient on violent and repeat offenders, and punishes people who don't deserve it. That, and the migrant situation and congestion pricing situation is a joke. In fact, the leadership here in general is a joke, and before you get any ideas, no I'm not someone who blindly votes Democrat. Or Republican, for that matter
The financial reports are available on the MTA website. You might start with "MTA Final Consolidated Financial Statements" which seems like a nice 148 page summary. Fun fact: the 19.8B operating amount encompasses the whole MTA (buses, LIRR, Metro North, SI Railway, the tunnels and bridges, etc.). The net operating cost last year was $8B
Wait - they promote using public transportation over private vehicles but won't invest and maintain them properly? What a scam. The whole reason people use their own vehicles in most places is because public transportation is so bad. When I took the bus to work on days my car was in the shop, it took 30 minutes to go to work and 60 minutes to get home, the latter due to all the LA traffic the bus had to get thru b4 getting to my stop. Driving, it took 15 to 20 minutes both ways on surface streets alone. And the bus stop near my work was always dark and not in the best part of town. The bus only ran once every hour as well. Buses in my area used to run every 20 minutes when they weren't being promoted. WTH?!
I live in NYC and every 2yrs they raise the cost of buses/trains saying they need the money to upgrade transit system for better travel, but I’ve yet to see any improvements and the travel prices keeps going up. The buses/trains are worse than ever, nothing works, filth is outrageous and now crime on trains/buses are up substantially. So where has our billions gone from the raises they keep getting?? NYC is a ponze scheme at this point🤦🏽♀️
I knew a third world immigrant who was an engineer for the subway. He made like $150k and I'm pretty sure he didn't have a real college degree. USA will go as NYC goes. RIP.
Transportation; "we need more money". Education; "we need more money". Crime; "we need more money". Beautification; "we need more money". Infrastructure; "we need more money". Pollution; "we need more money". Homelessness; "we need more money". And it goes on & on & on generation after generation.😮
The more money equals better education seems the most absurd to me. It's like claiming you get fitter if your gym is more expensive, without any reference to the will of the person to be fit/educated.
and never happens, its in their pockets while we are suffering/illegals are free while we suffer and be afraid of their groceries, healthcare., everything/rapes/looting/assaults/murder/ thanks Biden] did you get your votes at our expexpences/ mayayorkas
@@spencerhardy8667 Agreed. When it comes to budgets, both for private and public firms and institutions, there seems to be a tipping point, were efficiency in the use of the budget, turns into bloat and then an inefficiency in the use of the budget, to the point were the budget starts to run out of control. You see this in almost every government project and service. Everything become far more expensive, more studies are conducted for each process that is applied, and waste become endemic within the system, from a management perspective all the way down. Everything takes far longer to carry out, which costs more money, and has more waste, which then need more money to fund the next years budget, which is already behind schedule, which takes longer, costs more, and need more tax to prop-up, which is even more behind. It's a systemic death rattle that can only be stopped by saying no, and cutting budgets with direct oversight by people who actually know what they are doing.
@chemcorps272 Life here is just fine. I took the subway today and got to my destination without issue. Life in this city isn't terrible. Are there issues? Of course, as is the case in any town or city in this country, but life goes on, and people live their lives here without a problem. This city is not cooked
@@beigefox6579 You seem to be the leader of the ignorant comment section... Elaborate on your comment as you are pretty vague... I am listening... Cheers
The NYPD budget is $6 billion, with pensions totaling $55 billion. When was the last time you observed an NYPD officer focused on their duties rather than on their phones? The last time I sought to file a police report after a hit-and-run, the officer was annoyed I asked for one, and told me to go to the precinct.
This is crazy... NYC and London were the two major cities that other cities relied on when designing their own public transit system... How does this happen? NYC has a tourist revenue that exceeds most other huge cities... Where is all this money going? Why is there not a forensic audit done on this city to determine where all the taxpayers, tourists and other sources of revenue going? I have so many questions... UGH
because so much money goes missing , due to laundering, politicians, big business evading taxes, shell companies Politian's run that are paid to do these upgrades and maintenance, the mob. Its a whole like system of insanity. Thats why trump said you have to pay people to get anything done. Building a new building you need so many permits and only allows you a certain time to work and before you get t he permits you need to work, the previous ones run out, so you have to pay the city more money and time to come out and give you new permits and so the cycle continues, until you pay someone off.
This is making the Skytrain in Vancouver look better. I haven't been in NY since 2001 (right before 9/11), and seeing NYC fall apart makes me so sad, but also glad I live in Vancouver BC.
Cash, your videos are the absolute best. After I left my home town of Memphis when I was 37 and New Orleans when I was 50 and moved deep into the Manchac Swamps on 2 acres, this behavior is now so foreign to me. Never lock the house nor the truck and sleep peacefully at night. Greg, Springfield, Louisiana.
I used to do public and private facade renovations in NYC and NJ for a non union company. The reason our public projects cost more than double than private in NJ is for the following reasons: 1. NYC sets the hourly wages per task on public jobs. Lets say you are working on pointer cleaner caulker work and bricklaying. In a non public job you could pay $35-40 an hour for a skilled worker. When I was there, in public work you need to pay about $75 an hour for PCC and $90 for bricklayer. 2: The New York government is very slow to approve change orders. Lets say your job is to replace brick and then you find rusty steel behind it. In private work you put together a quote and you will be working on the change order usually by the end of the week. On public jobs you need to stop for weeks or sometimes months while being forced to maintain your scaffolding, sidewalk shed, employ a site safety manager or coordinator who get paid $150,000 to $350,000 a year, and keep a foreman there with an occasional small crew to deal with small issues. In NJ you don't have a law for site safety manager/coordinator. 3. Permit approvals. In NJ you just need to bring the plans and maybe an additional 2 forms. They ask a small permit fee and it's approved within a week. Anyone can go in and apply for a permit in NJ. In NYC you need to hire an expeditor who is someone legally allowed to apply for permits. They ask you to fill out dozens of forms including noise mitigation, dust mitigation, site safety plan, evacuation map, etc etc. It typically takes 6 weeks to 3 months to get a permit because the expeditors are so backed up with all this paperwork. 4: Trainings: in NJ workers need 10 hour Osha training and supervisors need 30 hours osha training and you are good to go. These cards never expire. In NYC you needed 96 hours of training for scaffold workers. All of these trainings needed renewal after 3,4,5 years or else you get hit by huge fines. And you needed a printed record and employees carrying their training cards at all times. Its a task to manage all of that and to pay for all of the trainings. Maybe 2-3k ust to train up a new hire. And the only useful information came from the scaffolding class. 5: Insurance: I don't know insurance costs in NJ but in NY they passed a recent law which effectively meant our subcontractors and us needed to pay $200,000 a year for insurance for their crew. It didnt matter if you had only a small crew on 1 job or many men on many jobs, that is the additional cost. My undertanding is this law was lobbied under the guise of protecting workers but was just pushed by unions and big contractors to knock out the small companies who were competing against them. 6: injuries/insurance costs. In NYC it is the only place I'm aware of where the employer is 100% liable for any injury and where the payouts are that high. Meaning your worker can show up high to work and then swan dive off the roof and the employer needs to pay all the salary and raises they would have earned for the rest of the life to the family. In most states if an employee is being negligent then the cost of an injury is usually split. This makes insurance crazy expensive in NYC but it does help workers.
The truck drivers in Newark are already saying they won't be delivering to Manhattan if they have to pay an extra $60 per day to deliver on top of the $25 for the turnpike to get to a bridge or tunnel into the city for $38 per trip. The varrazano bridge makes 1.6 million dollars per day!! That's not including all of the other bridges and tunnels around NYC that make almost as much. The MTA is so mismanaged that they need to look at how much is being spent on unnecessary projects and problems. The MTA needs to stop fair evasion and fix itself before asking everyone else to pay more.
6:17 Government services are very specifically NOT businesses. Saying they aren’t self sustaining and thus would be shut down if it was a business is a ludicrous statement. Militaries, post offices, libraries, paramedics, schools, and countless other services would cease to exist with this logic. NYC has issues and one can debate the value of various services but this is not how you do it.
Maintenance in NY costs more than anywhere else in the USA. NY transit has never been profitable, unless you’re talking about the corruption. Also the people that use these services like to pee on nice things
@@phann860 Most people pay. I'd say 90% of people riding the subway. Getting that to 99% will cost more than the revenue we'd get from that, so it's just not worth it.
@@onehouraday It is worth it, when you fine these 9% who dont pay. 2 People checking for valid tickets and fine for like 50$ when they dont have it. Lets say you need additional 3 emplyees to process the fine. Now you just have to fine at least 5 people per hour and you have payed for all 5 emplyees. Everything else "free" money and can go back into maintaining the trains.
yeah thats nuts the trains and tunnels etc. look like they are from world war 2... the maintenance of the buildings looks horrible, its a joke... Amtrak apparently had 5.4 billion operating expenses in 2023 with 150 active trains per day...
My guess is that there is a lot of overlap between people who receive inflated contracts from the government, and people who donate to politicians. It's also part of why the other coast is paying well above market value to build fancy apartments for homeless people.
The 20B operating cost is for the MTA (including busses, Metro North, LIRR, SI railway, bridges, tunnels) and ignores operating revenue. The net operating cost (for the whole MTA) is 8B
Wow, this vid was so comprehensive. As a fellow New Yorker, your opinion was valid bro. The MTA is so mismanaged and corrupt. Any extra money is literally being thrown into a burning fire.
Yeah yeah yeah. Compare the cost of subway maintenance to road maintenance, divide that by the number of passenger miles traveled, and tell me which one is the bad deal. You know what else doesn’t generate enough tax revenue to pay for its own infrastructure maintenance? Single family homes development. So really, who is subsidizing who here? Which way is that wealth redistribution really going?
or heaven forbid they actually get out and walk! hey, get used to the cold, people are waging war in ukraine and they don't complain about it when it's cold. right now it's like 45 deg c... upwards of 104 degrees f
2-3 years ago, the city I live in, stopped cash on buses because of the 'Wu Flu'. Instead, the bus drivers were told "just let people on". Cash never came back and the swipe cards people use, often run out of 'credit'. At the same time, the government was/is building a light rail system. At least 2-4 people will get on a bus pretending "I didn't know I ran out of credit". 18 months ago, the government slashed bus routes and times due to financial losses. I can't even imagine how much money they lost in fare evasion but it's a hell of a lot. And now we have a transport system that even the 3rd World would be laughing at.
Thank you again for covering this, Cash. You are helping bring awareness to a major problem and we commend you for it. I'm not even American (Canadian). The world is in chaos.
The pure energy and exuberance that you project in your reporting,.... is TOTALLY PURE NYC....It actually sings an element of pure HOPE behind the story you are compelled to herald. ☘️
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier. He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC. LoL! Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be. What happend with 'voting with your feet'? LoL! If you hate NYC just leave already! LoL!
Hey Cash, love your channel. I was born and raised in NYC. This is what people forget. Before the pandemic, there was a very high concentration of super high net worth people living in NYC. After the pandemic many of them left forever. Those were the people actually paying for all of the programs, transit, etc, in NYC. They paid so much in taxes that you will never be able to cover things otherwise. There will never be enough normal people living in NYC to make up this shortfall. This is why NYC is failing.
I don't live in NYC, but I HATE driving in the inner city. I worked driving in my local inner city as support/delivery for 5 years and hated every minute of it.
The insane amount of money they already have isn't being used in the right places to maintain and improve services! Why should they deserve more money if they can't utilize the money they already have effectively! Glad New Yorkers are finally saying no more wasting our money figure it out with what you got👏
What I don’t understand is this in other countries of the world the trains are clean cheep and well maintained and well guarded why is this damned train expensive dirty and unreliable
I had a buddy of mine in the fbi in the early 2010s reviewing a case where the mta were complaining they were losing money at the same time they spent over 500k on renovated bathroom. The bathroom wasn’t even in the subway. I know the mtA needs modernization but they’re corrupt. Go figure.
You should look into the contractors and the heads of the MTA and how much money they make and how incompetent they are when it comes to getting work done. But not when it comes to saying they need more money. Corruption is at the top.
Everyone in the NYC area pays for the subways. I live in the suburbs but my utility bills have an MTA (the state agency that runs the subways) surcharge. The MTA owns the bridges in NYC and the most of the bridge tolls go subsidize the subways. More toll money goes to the subways then to operate and maintain the bridges. It's crazy.
@@Lydia-Frostwhat dose reparations have to do with this? Honestly how bumfucked does your life have to be to think of reparations every living moment? Smh
Typical New Yorkers, can’t build a fair city where people actually want to live and work because they coddle the upper classs balls so much, so they just blame the criminals just trying to survive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Aside from politics, there are two factors that make people mad about this new tax: (1) How exactly is a 5% budget increase end all of the public transit problems? (2) Show us how effectively and purposely every dollar of the $20 billion budget is being used and then we can talk. Your video nicely points this out and raises tons of other good arguments.
The governor made a tactical error sending in the national guard. At that point I believe Eric yelled "Checkmate" subway safety is the governor's responsibility.
Almost at a Millie! Well deserved, I really enjoy watching your content. I'm living in downtown Toronto, Canada, but we are dealing with very similar issues as NYC right now.
I know what you mean, Toronto was such a lovely city back in the day, but things have changed so much and mostly for the worse… just really sad to see.
I took a trip to New York City for the first time a month ago, and can say with a certainty that I wont be going back, It wasn't worth it, pretty sure I got pickpocketed 5 times, Luckily I wasn't carrying anything important. Subway was confusing and impossible to navigate without prior notion of were to go. Most if not all of the landmark's were uninteresting and the noise pollution was horrific.
By knowing you’re part of a community, and a greater overall community. Plenty of childless people, or old people with or without kids pay taxes into schools. Just because you don’t use it, doesn’t mean much of anything. You don’t use the tanks the govt. purchases. You don’t use some road in some random town in the state you live in. We can name a lot of stuff you don’t use, and yet, they need you to be taxed for it to exist. Why are people so strange about taxes? You realize that this is just how power works, right? Biggest caveman is the chief, he gets the most meat and the women, the food/women tax. Knights fought in the army of the king, gave food and protection, taxed to keep the land you call home safe from the neighbors that want it. And now, you have to pay for other people to use the subway you don’t use. Who may frequent the store you work at, because they were able to keep their job by using the subway. I don’t really get the problem, when we can name thousands of things you don’t use that your taxes pay for.
@@larrycampbell6133 Taxes are primarily the reason why the economy is so rough for the lower class. Not only is it Taxation without representation but the a blatant misappropriation of the amount we are getting taxed in the first place. they money is not going to where its needed. If it actually did we would not care about it. When a Bus Sign(Glorified one in San Fran) costs 2million to install then obviously something is wrong. that should not have cost more then 1 grand at the worst. with most of the price being Material Cost
@@QQ-qz5ft You misunderstood me. The tax I'm talking about specifically targets people who do NOT use the service. It's not just a tax you pay EVEN IF you don't use the service. It's a tax you pay IF AND ONLY IF you don't use the service. Do you get the difference and how it can raise eyebrows? People who take the subway can evade fare and seemingly nobody cares, but people who drive in the streets will likely have to pay for the subway they chose not to take. How is that fair?
@@luciengrondin5802Cause cars on the road are actually incredibly taxing on the infrastructure itself. In addition to additional revenue for infrastructure, congestion pricing was meant to discourage people from driving unless necessary. Walk around in midtown and it is gridlock for cars during peak hours. I can't count how many cars almost ran me over blasting through a red light cause of road rage. They add stress to the roads (adding to how often we need to replace roads), makes buses slower, prevents emergency vehicles from moving, etc. I didn't read the whole plan in full, and they should have made some peak v non-peak times and such, but all this discourse about what is fair and what isn't fair do not seem to consider the picture in full. Public transit must be funded at least in part by people who do not use it. If it is completely paid by the people who use it, then we would be paying $20 a ride if not more. And cause it is so expensive, service is reduced. And if service is reduced, less people take it cause it isn't convenient. And everyone gets a car and no one goes anywhere.
$20 billion in operating alone? Many entire states don't have a budget that big. They need an audit.
They may have an audit, but it's not always gonna show it's true colors. It's too many hands in the cookie jar and secret meetings behind closed doors gets the trash picked up and curbside.
How much money has NY given to migrants.
The genius mayor spent 4 million dollars to figure out that trash goes in trash cans
@@Mrdad3255 Too many backdoor deals, like the show Boardwalk Empire!
But they’re so busy see, trying to stop Donald Trump and all.
The amount of corruption in running this city makes me wonder how this city is still holding itself together so far ?!
Remember when christie created congestion for the same reasons
Sounds like NYC isn't holding itself together.
The tons of mindless wanna be rich and the Actual rich who use the systems the long existed there. they only reason they dont all leave is because they would have to rebuild the stock market somewhere else. and they dont wanna fund that.
Actually give them an alternative and they would leave in a heartbeat. of course is the cost of buisness starts getting to expensive due to theft and crime eventually not even that can keep them there so as long as the few main financial megaprojects stay in NYC the city will shamble on like a zombie
While food and rent prices go so high youre on a survive mode, what do we need?
City: More taxes, dear citizen, more taxes
They keep voting for this and wonder why it doesn't change. Same reason the whole country is going down. Just wait til every house is at least a million dollars, maybe then people will fight back
Rural towns in Japan have more consistent public transportation than an entire American city.
I have often wished I could emigrate to Japan.
I can smell piss in that elevator from watching from the comfort of my computer miles away.
Yes thas it’s very terrible yes you are right and also a lot people are living out the street 😮
Maybe they should learn that Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
You might want to check your pants bro.😂
I'm watching it from mediterranean Europe and I can just feel the grime and piss, been in enough bar toilets to know
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
Whoever said subway delays are proof that we are not paying enough taxes needs to look into how the MTA squandered $1 billion for cameras
Most of the money for the system is spent on salaries!! A train conductor makes $120K a year!!
@@guyfawkesuThe1no reason he shouldn’t. They waste so much money he could probably be making $250.
@@guyfawkesuThe1 You are completely right , it's labour intensive . Track workers , signal and equipment maintainers , gobs of managers .
@@lanceeverhard6951 There is one reason , the subway doesant make the money .
@@guyfawkesuThe1good luck living off of anything less than 120k
Its still hilarious to me that the moment NYC bought the subway from private hands in the 1930s/40s improvements pretty much stopped
The government can’t handle things
@@BsBsBockActually the government started neglecting public transportation in favor of private personal vehicles, which of course was to benefit auto manufacturers. The government's job is to facilitate capitalism by removing any obstacles that obstruct private profits.
@@BsBsBock*the us government
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
Vote for incompetence... get incompetency
They know what they are doing
@@marimercy14 "THEY" have no idea what they are doing ,
that is why is the city of N Y and the whole state is spinning around the drain hole like the last time you flushed your commode .?
I didn’t vote for Hochul!! You don’t always get what you vote for!
@CycloidalHeadache
Vote for a pitted F-16 viper.
@@davekinghorn9567 New York is a paradise I live here everyday no crime here Mayor Adams is doing a great job keeping everyone safe keep borders open vote blue Biden 2024!!
Wants felony statistics to improve? STOP FUKIN RELEASING THEM!??
In Cali they are fining the stores for making too many calls to the police. 😮
I guess that helps the crime statistics. Blame the stores, they stop making calls, crime went down. 😢
I read this as "stop releasing the statistics" and sadly that is where we are going
💯
@@sbielec30 Wow that's ridiculous
but this is how they are lowering it on paper :D
How is the subway not getting sued for not being handicap accessible?? Having an elevator several stops away from where you want to go is not ADA compliant. WTF New York?!!
Governments are never held to the standards they impose on private citizens and businesses.
They get away with it because the system is so old. Some of those steps going down date to the turn of the century and are scarry!
When the Elevator is the ONLY way a handicapped person can access public transit, there needs to be some WTFs thrown
The stations came before ADA compliance so now they are slowly converting stations to be accessible but the fact that they have to subcontract with firms to survey their stations for renovation slows their progress by a lot(working with third party etc.,.)along with obvious mishandling of their budget. But I do give them credit because the MTA have converted quite a lot of stations over the years that I frequently used like the 8th avenue and 59th street stations in Brooklyn along the N line. In recent months they sealed off sections of my parents' local F stop at Briarwood to add elevators for accessibility as well. Cash Jordan is a republican shill and grifter that's sensationalizing everything to appear 100x worse than reality, his goal is simply to stoke fear and discontent towards NYC. Not that I am pro-democrat, I'm neither but seeing propaganda like this is infuriating to say the least.
@@Br3ttM*small to medium businesses.
I was. Born and raised in Brooklyn all my life of 59 years and worked for transit for 34 years and retired from it and I can tell you that what ever cash they say would help fix the subway is a lie😮MTA squanders what ever cash they get and nothing will get done.
I'm 24, was born in Harlem, raised in the Bronx and it's crazy how bad everything's gotten in just a few years too. When I was in high school, the subway was bearable (I had to commute downtown), but now it just sounds like a hot mess. I rarely use the subway anymore, and this just makes me want to avoid it altogether. It's truly worrying for everyone who needs public transport daily and one can only hope something will change for the better
Politicians that run the states are millionaires but the states are getting poorer....
Maybe need to fight to stop politicians from giving themselves big pay rises and make them put money into things the states need ??
That's the same story with every govt project. Collect the tax money and use it to maintain their way of life.
@@birdsmokoYou should have seen the difference between before computers, internet, cell phones and social media and NOW. We used to trust one another to say "pump gas and THEN pay ". Neither of my two best friends of 30 years I carpooled to college with are white. Look what we have now. I lettered on the r¡fle team in high school before mass x'ings became a thing too. Maybe it's time to start asking WHAT HAPPENED? I remember most businesses closing on Sunday. Yea, maybe us Christians spent our day with God but we also spent time with family, friends, events where people socialized. Everyone took a break at the same time on the same day. We certainly didn't make it 250 years like we are NOW!
So again, I ask; WHAT HAPPENED?
Do u like living there ??
We dont need modernization projects when you cant even maintain the system, we currently have
YES!!
So right. Why do we need TV screens in subway stations with ads. And beautiful meoralls that we don't need.
Except the system as it is currently was originally built and designed in the 1940"s. How many public or private pieces of infrastructure do you know that is that old doesn't need massive modernization as you put or just outright completely rebuilt. The problem with the NYC mass transit system is decades old and is primarily the fault of the residents of NYC who refused to pay to keep the system up to date or refused to accept the inconvenience that would be necessary to completely transform the system. To see what NYC needs to do just look at London. Its residents bit the bullet paid for the system to be revamp and dealt with the delays and now have one of the most efficient mass transit systems in the world. Is it perfect no it was made by humans, but it is far superior to what NYC has today.
@@dominican200 New York is a paradise I live here everyday no crime here Mayor Adams is doing a great job keeping everyone safe keep borders open vote blue Biden 2024!!
@@rhmrr01 brace the blue team Biden 2024!
I live in Atlanta but visit NYC 2-3 times per year. The last time I used the subway in 2016, a visibly ill homeless man who had crapped in his pants, was sleeping in the subway car. The entire car smelled like a sewer - people walked in, took one sniff, and walked out. Since that day, my wife and I just use Uber. NYC used to be a beacon to the US; now, it exists as a warning. Local elections matter - be careful who you put into power.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
We are being gaslit! The MTA is withholding services and blaming it on financial woes. It's draconian and the MTA should be investigated and held accountable. To blame the reduction of services on the congestion pricing pullback is obscene. Subway and train fares are through the roof and they never fix infrastructure. NYC has the most expensive subway system in the world and the MTA suits cry poor while summering in the Hamptons. Pathetic.
Yes that is a ploy. Forced coercion. They have misappropriated revenue in past. There were employees of MTA that were indicted years ago on fraudulent actions.
Nope. You clearly never use mta. I bus to work and some days - not trips, DAYS - NO ONE PAYS. The entire route of kings highway. That's just one bus, one way. How much is that going on throughout the hundreds of bus lines that travel every hour of every day? That is a ton of losses
@@jamesneese7663 I’ve noticed the same thing! And when you do pay the fare, you have to stand up the entire time because people who didn’t pay the fare got to the seats before you did because you bothered paying the fare! So many people not paying, it has to add up at some point! I still believe the MTA should be investigated!
Facts !
Cameltoee Harris, just the other day was saying "This administration has spent a Trillion US dollars on infrastructure in the last year". Vote for liers get lies.
Nothing in NY is going to get better
Not if people keep "voting blue no matter who" it won't.
avg sanctuary city
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
@@incurableromantic4006 Can't fix stupid.
@@incurableromantic4006I'm more of a 'vote red, unless I'm dead" kinda guy 😂
The Seoul transportation budget (including every type of transportation) is about 1.7b dollar.
The entire city 2024 budget is 29b dollar.
I can't even begin to understand what is going on in NYC.
Corruption.
@@mattd5240100%
Democrats! Quit voting for these people!
The 19.8B operating cost is the entire MTA, which runs the buses, several railroads, and the tunnels and bridges. It also ignores operating revenue. The net operating flow is about $8B cost. That's roughly equal to the amount actually contributed by the governments. Considering NYC has 4x the population, it seems pretty reasonable at a glance.
@@MauveAlerts Well with that context and the fact that labor is more expensive it actually makes some sense that it might take 20b dollars for a well functioning transport system, but for what it seems here it is nothing close to one. I've never been to NY so I can't really tell for my self.
NYC crossed the point of no return. I feel bad for all the good people trapped there due to their incompetent bureaucrats.
I was born there and moved away yrs ago. Couldn’t pay me enough to live there again!
Good people ? 😂
I don’t, they consistently voted these incompetents in. It’s their own undoing.
They have legs. Walk to another state and pick your life up even if it's from the rock bottom.
17 million for an elevator? Ya sure and 50,000 for a light bulb. O and a hundred grand for a door nob. I promise I'm not ripping you off. 🤪😅
Union labor is costly.
How many officers could have been added for $17 million???
@@DarkbutNotsinister In NYC? About 3, and 15 skittle haired diversity hires to "supervise" them.
Union labor = american citizen worker ! how is that not a Win or you prefer a mexican guy do it price 50% off and pay no tax
you complaine over the wrong stuf
@@DarkbutNotsinister About 2.
I refuse to regularly use subways in NYC. Its not that I hate public transit, I use public transport in europe all the time. Its just that NYC transit is broken, scarry, smelly, and slow.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
I love how the politicians are blaming everything else for NYC’s problems and not admitting they are reason the city is in such bad shape.
That’s what narcissists do
Alcoholics never take blame for drinking alcohol they blame their parents for being mean when they were kids
EXACTLY.
As in any democratic system, one only gets the political competence the majority of voters vote for. You could make the excuse that the politicians (in this case, and many, many other cases across the United States, Democrat politicians) broke their promises, but if you keep voting the same party in again and again, having been given promises (often the same promises), you only have yourselves to blame
@@kasumimori1798 I think you forgot the human factor here. Don't matter Red or Blue it will happen. lol. Would you leave your wallet on a park bench for 10 mins ? Everything I own I worked for and bought myself. Didn't no politician have one thing to do with it. Come save me biden. Come save me trumpy. lolol
5% tax, isn't going to make a 'dent' in the budget. Just more money for the politicians to squander.
Like so many other things this issue isn't a funding problem, its a spending problem. After all, we're all paying EVEN MORE taxes since everything is so expensive! And yet the problems stay the same? Where's that money going then? Spot on!
Government employees are just as incompetent as DEI(Didn’t Earn It) hires.
Man, I love your channel and the way you cover everything. You are the best! It’s so informational and I learned so much. If only the lawmakers and governors and other people would take the time to watch your channels, they would be able to figure things out or come up with better plans. Please don’t ever stop. You’re the best journalist New York has ever had. I look forward to your videos daily thank you again for all your time and effort that you put into making these videos. I appreciate you.
oh you sweet summer child.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
@@halogeek6 Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
NYC is an embarrassment.
You spelled toilet wrong!
1974 it was fun to live there.. now its scarey
NYC is USA 😂😂😂
yeah fuck new yack city, it is just one massive open sewer/homeless camp/crack shack/meth lab/grow house/socialist dystopia!
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
It's really sad to see the current Administration in NYC's City Hall is destroying that city.
The State is complicit too
And the one before that and....
What do you expect? they are all Democrats, working for the WEF
After big bird they decided to continue with chocolate 😂
look at their bank accounts/ off shore accounts
I live in China. Never saw a train delay in my life. Never say graffiti in subway stations. Never saw person not paying for the tickets.
I live in Tehran-Iran
if theres one thing i love about Tehran is the metro system
many of my profs have studied in US or Canada and they all tell horror stories about north american transit
Yeah but you got that weird social credit score system which can seriously hamper your life if you don’t do what the government wants you to do
Polish person here, that stuff happens in my country but VERY RARELY. Probably a combination of cultural factors and corruption.
After 12 years, I’ve been out of the city for three weeks and I already feel renewed. If you’re thinking that if I just hang on, NYC will become better for working people, you’re dreaming.
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
A perfect example of how important who you vote for on the local level is.
lolol money makes the world go round. Like that would make things better. Maybe the next person in office don't need it. lol
They’re squandering the money. Even on weekends when they shut down lines for repairs or track maintenance, I rarely see the contractors doing any work.
isn't it amazing how there is enough tax money to give migrants free housing and free visa cards with money on it, but then their also isn't enough money for the subway infrastructure. NYC has their own brand of math, that fails at basic multiplication.
Joe Biden sold out the American people for the World Economic Forum
Typical New Yorkers, can’t build a fair city where people actually want to live and work because they coddle the upper classs balls so much, so they just blame the criminals just trying to survive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Typical New Yorkers, can’t build a fair city where people actually want to live and work because they coddle the upper classs balls so much, so they just blame the criminals just trying to survive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
who voted for that
We might as well give them Xmas debit cards for presents!
Descending into a dystopian nightmare faster than I thought.
"Escape From New York" is sounding less like a Kurt Russell movie, and more like a genuine piece of advice.
Saw this coming 15 years ago, they said I was crazy.
I moved out of NY 20 years ago and never looked back. I am spending my retirement down in North Carolina.
In declining USA, boomer collect high dollar urban salary only to abandon cities for slave class to rot in. RIP USA
I came for the interesting real estate videos but I’m staying for the only honest look at the rapid decline of a once beloved city. Thanks for letting people see what is really going on.
Up until 4 years ago I came to NYC as a tourist once or twice a year. Paid lots of money for hotels, restaurants, shows, museums, etc. After witnessing two muggings and increased trash on the sidewalks, I decided that I would discontinue my visits. Probably will never go back. Too bad.
Nearly two decades ago I made a Amtrak connection at Penn Station and didn't feel safe walking around Madison Square Garden. I shall never make a connection in New York City again...
Vote republican and get a democrat.
Same!
I live 20 miles from the City. Don't remember when was the last time I went 😂
The money was pocketed by officials. That money is gone.
What else is new-???🤔. Corruption has been going on since (1784)
New York used to be a symbol of the prowess of the USA. Now it's a symbol for a much different, far worse reason.
Your videos are real and demonstrate a full understandings of your topics. Keep it up, my friend.
Fun Fact: The Subways used to work fine long before congestion pricing was even an idea because people paid the fare and fare evaders got arrested. And crime prevention policies like "Stop and Frisk" kept the subways safer!
What's your point?
Exactly. We need to bring back stop and frisk and get rid of no bail reform.
Stop and frisk isn't legal.
Stop and frisk is blatantly unconstitutional but otherwise I agree with you.
Stop and frisk actually encourages cops to rob you but hey.
It's striking to see how New York City's tax dollars are being utilized, alongside the recurring pattern of releasing repeat offenders. I wonder if NYC residents share the same concerns about this issue, or if it's a perspective more readily apparent to international observers like myself.
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They got brand new elevators and people are already trashing them. No respect.
No class
just wait
Demons are getting out of hand.
Class? Have you seen the populations? RIP USA
Why not trash something that's not yours-???🤔
Man, Cash paints an "Escape From NY" kinda reality.
Yes. He paints. That's a perfect word for it. A great deal of this is fear mongering. This is entertainment for all you small town folks who want someone to blame that the empire is falling.
@@JustPutt201 cap, Babylon always falls
@@UltraContra711 Providence says otherwise little guy
@@ryanparker4996one of the 4 cardinal virtues
@@UltraContra711 Ah, I see you know your place! Youre not so bad little guy. I'll put a word in with the Boss for you
This is embarrassing, not even in my third world country we have something like this
here in Chile the Santiago Metro system is a triumph for a country with the limitations that we have (it's constantly cited as one of the best in the world), yet it was the first thing to be vandalize by the mob when protests took place 🤦 and you may ask, did the protests achieved their purpose at least? NOPE, we got elections for a new constitution that wasn't approved at the end TWICE (that costs money), the Metro system had to be repaired (more money), and ultimately the same politicians that supported the protests were put in charge of the government (now almost everyone wants them out, which means we wasted more money on them). Absolutely embarrasing.
@@hectorlagos8937 Soy Chileno po dhlsfj 🤣
@@eduardovargas7366 wena ql 😂
'Everyone who doesnt use the subway has to pay a tax to provide the subway for everyone who refuses to pay their fare.'
New York sounds like a Monty Python skit sometimes.
They can’t wait to use other ppls money.
lol Wish I'd said that!
Trash city
Businesses have to pay it as well. Goes for the bridges too, bud.
@@johndough4289 everyone but the users then, bud. Outcome is still the same, bud.
This stupid state should never have made congestion pricing a law in the first place
It's all about the 15 minute city - keeping you plebs tightly confined.
Bribes, blackmail.
Mustang SUV's as City vehicles?
Unfortunately, there are transit simps that think otherwise. The MTA gets $20 billion and it goes to waste. Projects such as Grand Central Madison, which was to bring the LIRR to Grand Central was $7 Billion overbudget alone. The money would've gone to waste.
@tocooh6838 The mustang mach e is a commonly used city vehicle.
When congestion pricing was catching wind, they said this thing is supposed to cause less cars into Manhattan. However, they also projected that it will make them so much money, so which means they use the projection as if cars still come in so they never really truly intended for cars not to come in anymore just so they can get the money.
Congestion pricing money was never going to make to the subway
Of course not. They have to pay for all the illegals. That is where the money would go.
It would have gone to “migrants”(Laundering)
Maybe if New York weren't spending so much on illegal immigrants, they could afford a better subway.
Bingo!
But then the politicans wouldnt get their private jets and 5 star cuisine from michilline star restuarants
The MTA is a state agency.
Exactly
How much are they spending?
Politicians wasting money and breaking promises?!? Nooo....say it ain't so!
Never been to NYC but I cant stop watching these videos 😅
I live in NYC, he massively exaggerates some of what's going on for doomer clicks, but I won't deny it's addicting to watch lol. City's a shithole, but outside of Manhattan is generally pretty alright
You should make the trip. You'll find out these videos are mostly B.S. with a political incentive. There are about 20 other posters walking around NYC day and night that show a completely different safe prospective. Check them out.
i have not been there since the 70's, and i can
stop watching these videos either!
@@Commenter839I went in 2018 for my 50th birthday. I’m so glad I got to experience NYC pre-2020. I’d never been before and absolutely fell in love with it and the people. So it’s really not as bad as we’re told?
@@juliecleveland1837 I mean, I've been living in NYC over a decade and counting (not in Manhattan though) and while I've seen plenty of sketchy people, I've never been the victim of a violent crime there. And I'm not a scary-looking person either; I'm a relatively scrawny woman. I used to work in Manhattan too (commuted 1.5 hrs via subway and bus) and still go there pretty often just to hang out and explore restaurants. That's easily the borough where I run into the most nutjobs in the wild, but none of them have done anything to me (let's hope I didn't jinx myself) and they're usually easy to avoid. Manhattan is also the only borough where I've had the lovely fortune of spotting fresh hot turds in the middle of subway walkways. But despite all that it's not total anarchy, the vast majority of people in NYC are genuinely just trying to live a normal life.
I think something I do consistently agree with in these videos is that the justice system is way too lenient on violent and repeat offenders, and punishes people who don't deserve it. That, and the migrant situation and congestion pricing situation is a joke. In fact, the leadership here in general is a joke, and before you get any ideas, no I'm not someone who blindly votes Democrat. Or Republican, for that matter
I'd like to see the receipts on that 20 billion a year spent on the subway.
The financial reports are available on the MTA website. You might start with "MTA Final Consolidated Financial Statements" which seems like a nice 148 page summary. Fun fact: the 19.8B operating amount encompasses the whole MTA (buses, LIRR, Metro North, SI Railway, the tunnels and bridges, etc.). The net operating cost last year was $8B
Once again, Cash, unlike the MTA, you're right on the money. How can one expect a bucket to remain topped off if the holes aren't plugged up first?
Wait - they promote using public transportation over private vehicles but won't invest and maintain them properly? What a scam. The whole reason people use their own vehicles in most places is because public transportation is so bad. When I took the bus to work on days my car was in the shop, it took 30 minutes to go to work and 60 minutes to get home, the latter due to all the LA traffic the bus had to get thru b4 getting to my stop. Driving, it took 15 to 20 minutes both ways on surface streets alone. And the bus stop near my work was always dark and not in the best part of town. The bus only ran once every hour as well. Buses in my area used to run every 20 minutes when they weren't being promoted. WTH?!
I live in NYC and every 2yrs they raise the cost of buses/trains saying they need the money to upgrade transit system for better travel, but I’ve yet to see any improvements and the travel prices keeps going up. The buses/trains are worse than ever, nothing works, filth is outrageous and now crime on trains/buses are up substantially. So where has our billions gone from the raises they keep getting?? NYC is a ponze scheme at this point🤦🏽♀️
66 billion dollars a year goes to care for illegal aliens.
I knew a third world immigrant who was an engineer for the subway. He made like $150k and I'm pretty sure he didn't have a real college degree. USA will go as NYC goes. RIP.
Transportation; "we need more money". Education; "we need more money". Crime; "we need more money". Beautification; "we need more money". Infrastructure; "we need more money". Pollution; "we need more money". Homelessness; "we need more money". And it goes on & on & on generation after generation.😮
Dependent Nation
The more money equals better education seems the most absurd to me. It's like claiming you get fitter if your gym is more expensive, without any reference to the will of the person to be fit/educated.
Because the suits are stuffing their pockets more each year
and never happens, its in their pockets while we are suffering/illegals are free while we suffer and be afraid of their groceries, healthcare., everything/rapes/looting/assaults/murder/ thanks Biden] did you get your votes at our expexpences/ mayayorkas
@@spencerhardy8667 Agreed. When it comes to budgets, both for private and public firms and institutions, there seems to be a tipping point, were efficiency in the use of the budget, turns into bloat and then an inefficiency in the use of the budget, to the point were the budget starts to run out of control. You see this in almost every government project and service. Everything become far more expensive, more studies are conducted for each process that is applied, and waste become endemic within the system, from a management perspective all the way down. Everything takes far longer to carry out, which costs more money, and has more waste, which then need more money to fund the next years budget, which is already behind schedule, which takes longer, costs more, and need more tax to prop-up, which is even more behind. It's a systemic death rattle that can only be stopped by saying no, and cutting budgets with direct oversight by people who actually know what they are doing.
This city is so cooked
Yeah cooked, because a random TH-camr tells you. Your life must be amazing !!!
There are so many ignorant people in the comments section. 🤦🏾♂
@@beigefox6579 Alright... So how is NYC doing?
@@chemcorps272FUN. S31TTY😮
@chemcorps272 Life here is just fine. I took the subway today and got to my destination without issue. Life in this city isn't terrible. Are there issues? Of course, as is the case in any town or city in this country, but life goes on, and people live their lives here without a problem.
This city is not cooked
@@beigefox6579 You seem to be the leader of the ignorant comment section... Elaborate on your comment as you are pretty vague... I am listening... Cheers
The NYPD budget is $6 billion, with pensions totaling $55 billion. When was the last time you observed an NYPD officer focused on their duties rather than on their phones? The last time I sought to file a police report after a hit-and-run, the officer was annoyed I asked for one, and told me to go to the precinct.
At least he suggested going to the precinct-!!!🤗
If you wanted to come to NYC, turn around and go back where you came. That's coming from New Yorker herself.
Yes and as a New Yorker you only have yourselves to blame because you keep voting in corrupt and lawlessness politicians👍👍
I agree
This is crazy... NYC and London were the two major cities that other cities relied on when designing their own public transit system... How does this happen? NYC has a tourist revenue that exceeds most other huge cities... Where is all this money going? Why is there not a forensic audit done on this city to determine where all the taxpayers, tourists and other sources of revenue going? I have so many questions... UGH
The demorats definitely don't want any audits! All the massive grafts would be revealed!
because so much money goes missing , due to laundering, politicians, big business evading taxes, shell companies Politian's run that are paid to do these upgrades and maintenance, the mob. Its a whole like system of insanity. Thats why trump said you have to pay people to get anything done. Building a new building you need so many permits and only allows you a certain time to work and before you get t he permits you need to work, the previous ones run out, so you have to pay the city more money and time to come out and give you new permits and so the cycle continues, until you pay someone off.
Great questions. I have asked this and many other questions as well.
Remember being with my partner this guy and girl jumped the barriers full of face piercings I said to her "I wish I had a super magnet" xD
blue model = black hole
This is making the Skytrain in Vancouver look better. I haven't been in NY since 2001 (right before 9/11), and seeing NYC fall apart makes me so sad, but also glad I live in Vancouver BC.
The "REAL NEWS VOICE " of New York!
Cash, your videos are the absolute best. After I left my home town of Memphis when I was 37 and New Orleans when I was 50 and moved deep into the Manchac Swamps on 2 acres, this behavior is now so foreign to me. Never lock the house nor the truck and sleep peacefully at night. Greg, Springfield, Louisiana.
I've seen so much stuff riding the subway that my eyes can't unsee.
I used to do public and private facade renovations in NYC and NJ for a non union company. The reason our public projects cost more than double than private in NJ is for the following reasons:
1. NYC sets the hourly wages per task on public jobs. Lets say you are working on pointer cleaner caulker work and bricklaying. In a non public job you could pay $35-40 an hour for a skilled worker. When I was there, in public work you need to pay about $75 an hour for PCC and $90 for bricklayer.
2: The New York government is very slow to approve change orders. Lets say your job is to replace brick and then you find rusty steel behind it. In private work you put together a quote and you will be working on the change order usually by the end of the week. On public jobs you need to stop for weeks or sometimes months while being forced to maintain your scaffolding, sidewalk shed, employ a site safety manager or coordinator who get paid $150,000 to $350,000 a year, and keep a foreman there with an occasional small crew to deal with small issues. In NJ you don't have a law for site safety manager/coordinator.
3. Permit approvals. In NJ you just need to bring the plans and maybe an additional 2 forms. They ask a small permit fee and it's approved within a week. Anyone can go in and apply for a permit in NJ.
In NYC you need to hire an expeditor who is someone legally allowed to apply for permits. They ask you to fill out dozens of forms including noise mitigation, dust mitigation, site safety plan, evacuation map, etc etc. It typically takes 6 weeks to 3 months to get a permit because the expeditors are so backed up with all this paperwork.
4: Trainings: in NJ workers need 10 hour Osha training and supervisors need 30 hours osha training and you are good to go. These cards never expire. In NYC you needed 96 hours of training for scaffold workers. All of these trainings needed renewal after 3,4,5 years or else you get hit by huge fines. And you needed a printed record and employees carrying their training cards at all times. Its a task to manage all of that and to pay for all of the trainings. Maybe 2-3k ust to train up a new hire. And the only useful information came from the scaffolding class.
5: Insurance:
I don't know insurance costs in NJ but in NY they passed a recent law which effectively meant our subcontractors and us needed to pay $200,000 a year for insurance for their crew. It didnt matter if you had only a small crew on 1 job or many men on many jobs, that is the additional cost. My undertanding is this law was lobbied under the guise of protecting workers but was just pushed by unions and big contractors to knock out the small companies who were competing against them.
6: injuries/insurance costs. In NYC it is the only place I'm aware of where the employer is 100% liable for any injury and where the payouts are that high. Meaning your worker can show up high to work and then swan dive off the roof and the employer needs to pay all the salary and raises they would have earned for the rest of the life to the family. In most states if an employee is being negligent then the cost of an injury is usually split. This makes insurance crazy expensive in NYC but it does help workers.
Sounds like a money grab for corrupted city officials and their cronies!
I had no idea how bad things truly had gotten. Thanks for a cogent post.
In other words, excess bureaucracy and regulation, driven by corruption.
Basically, NJ > NY
Problem is the unions. They and soros backed these politicians so that the politicians are all yes men to them.
The truck drivers in Newark are already saying they won't be delivering to Manhattan if they have to pay an extra $60 per day to deliver on top of the $25 for the turnpike to get to a bridge or tunnel into the city for $38 per trip.
The varrazano bridge makes 1.6 million dollars per day!! That's not including all of the other bridges and tunnels around NYC that make almost as much. The MTA is so mismanaged that they need to look at how much is being spent on unnecessary projects and problems.
The MTA needs to stop fair evasion and fix itself before asking everyone else to pay more.
6:17 Government services are very specifically NOT businesses. Saying they aren’t self sustaining and thus would be shut down if it was a business is a ludicrous statement. Militaries, post offices, libraries, paramedics, schools, and countless other services would cease to exist with this logic.
NYC has issues and one can debate the value of various services but this is not how you do it.
Public services are not supposed to be making money. Tax payers already paid for them their services should be available and affordable for everyone.
Maintenance in NY costs more than anywhere else in the USA. NY transit has never been profitable, unless you’re talking about the corruption. Also the people that use these services like to pee on nice things
Except they should pay to travel on them, which it seems like it is not happening.
@@phann860 Most people pay. I'd say 90% of people riding the subway. Getting that to 99% will cost more than the revenue we'd get from that, so it's just not worth it.
@@onehouraday It is worth it, when you fine these 9% who dont pay.
2 People checking for valid tickets and fine for like 50$ when they dont have it.
Lets say you need additional 3 emplyees to process the fine.
Now you just have to fine at least 5 people per hour and you have payed for all 5 emplyees.
Everything else "free" money and can go back into maintaining the trains.
No train system in the world is profitable, they are all subsidized.
$20 Billion per year? They are using the subway expense as a slush fund. A whole bunch of stuff is being written off as subway expenses.
yeah thats nuts the trains and tunnels etc. look like they are from world war 2... the maintenance of the buildings looks horrible, its a joke... Amtrak apparently had 5.4 billion operating expenses in 2023 with 150 active trains per day...
They spend 66 billion a year to care for illegals
thank you, someone gets it
My guess is that there is a lot of overlap between people who receive inflated contracts from the government, and people who donate to politicians. It's also part of why the other coast is paying well above market value to build fancy apartments for homeless people.
The 20B operating cost is for the MTA (including busses, Metro North, LIRR, SI railway, bridges, tunnels) and ignores operating revenue. The net operating cost (for the whole MTA) is 8B
0:03 that guy carrying two full bags very close to the running trains is making me extremely anxious!
Wow, this vid was so comprehensive. As a fellow New Yorker, your opinion was valid bro. The MTA is so mismanaged and corrupt. Any extra money is literally being thrown into a burning fire.
Don’t respect it cause they don’t pay for it. Couldn’t have said it any better. You’re spot on
Yeah yeah yeah. Compare the cost of subway maintenance to road maintenance, divide that by the number of passenger miles traveled, and tell me which one is the bad deal. You know what else doesn’t generate enough tax revenue to pay for its own infrastructure maintenance? Single family homes development. So really, who is subsidizing who here? Which way is that wealth redistribution really going?
We left in early 2021. Saw the writing on the wall. Don’t miss it.
The driving tax is just crazy.. people can't afford living as it is. now you gotta pay too use the road
And we have to pay for tolls, have street cleaning and you get a ticket for anything in nyc
Right. They pay taxes already . That would be double taxing. Their paychecks to insurance to parking & tolls. NY gets more than enough revenue& taxes
We already pay taxes to build and repair roads.
Dont want anyone to travel, stay at home in your pods being surveilled in your smart city
or heaven forbid they actually get out and walk! hey, get used to the cold, people are waging war in ukraine and they don't complain about it when it's cold. right now it's like 45 deg c... upwards of 104 degrees f
London going the same way, over taxing leads to people not visiitng the city and that mean places will close until there is nothing left.
Over taxation never leads to good outcomes
Similar demographic change cause the same social outcomes.
It must be by design.
Karma for over taxation and greed
2-3 years ago, the city I live in, stopped cash on buses because of the 'Wu Flu'. Instead, the bus drivers were told "just let people on". Cash never came back and the swipe cards people use, often run out of 'credit'. At the same time, the government was/is building a light rail system.
At least 2-4 people will get on a bus pretending "I didn't know I ran out of credit". 18 months ago, the government slashed bus routes and times due to financial losses.
I can't even imagine how much money they lost in fare evasion but it's a hell of a lot. And now we have a transport system that even the 3rd World would be laughing at.
LA's light rail is a rolling RV for homeless and addicts
But the government can spend more than 66 billion dollars a year to care for illegals
What city?
Thank you again for covering this, Cash. You are helping bring awareness to a major problem and we commend you for it. I'm not even American (Canadian). The world is in chaos.
Maybe if they stop paying for foreigners
The social contract has been irretrievably broken.
The pure energy and exuberance that you project in your reporting,.... is TOTALLY PURE NYC....It actually sings an element of pure HOPE behind the story you are compelled to herald. ☘️
Cash jordan the prototypical douchy NYC gentrifier.
He failed at being a real estate agent in NYC, made a promise he would leave NYC forever but he failed at whatever he was doing back at mommies basement came back to NYC to complain about living in NYC.
LoL!
Prototypical douch bag gentrifier wanna be.
What happend with 'voting with your feet'?
LoL!
If you hate NYC just leave already!
LoL!
Here’s an idea - PAY YOUR FARE.
Pay for me cuz I aint gonna pay n shittt das rite cry white boi
You are Racist (sarcasm).
@@someoneinclass1500sheeeeeet
A "requirement" without enforcement is not a requirement. A law without enforcement is effectively not law. I'm not doing it : )
I'm pretty sure that kind of thinking is considered racist by our overlords.
Hey Cash, love your channel. I was born and raised in NYC. This is what people forget. Before the pandemic, there was a very high concentration of super high net worth people living in NYC. After the pandemic many of them left forever. Those were the people actually paying for all of the programs, transit, etc, in NYC. They paid so much in taxes that you will never be able to cover things otherwise. There will never be enough normal people living in NYC to make up this shortfall. This is why NYC is failing.
I don't live in NYC, but I HATE driving in the inner city. I worked driving in my local inner city as support/delivery for 5 years and hated every minute of it.
The insane amount of money they already have isn't being used in the right places to maintain and improve services! Why should they deserve more money if they can't utilize the money they already have effectively! Glad New Yorkers are finally saying no more wasting our money figure it out with what you got👏
What I don’t understand is this in other countries of the world the trains are clean cheep and well maintained and well guarded why is this damned train expensive dirty and unreliable
Government corruption & failure to enforce laws
Because the MTA & NY Politicians are crooks
Because you got morons that don't know how to run a country
Graft and corruption.
Demographics
Honestly, THE BEST JOURNALIST I have the pleasure of watching!!
Big Rotten Apple
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Amazing!
So sad... yet so true... unfortunately when you have one bad apple in the bag (city) the whole bag rots quicker...
@@sandra4395 I know!
I had a buddy of mine in the fbi in the early 2010s reviewing a case where the mta were complaining they were losing money at the same time they spent over 500k on renovated bathroom. The bathroom wasn’t even in the subway. I know the mtA needs modernization but they’re corrupt. Go figure.
Must have been for the mayors summer beach house
I’ve lived in NYC for 40yrs. The MTA does not need more money, they need accountability and oversight.
You should look into the contractors and the heads of the MTA and how much money they make and how incompetent they are when it comes to getting work done. But not when it comes to saying they need more money. Corruption is at the top.
I'd like to see those contractors compared to lists of political donors. I'd bet there's a lot of overlap.
Tax the people who don't use a service to fund the service. How stupid.
Taxation without representation. What revolution started because of that?
Just like reparations. Seems like they love using that method for everything.
Everyone in the NYC area pays for the subways. I live in the suburbs but my utility bills have an MTA (the state agency that runs the subways) surcharge. The MTA owns the bridges in NYC and the most of the bridge tolls go subsidize the subways. More toll money goes to the subways then to operate and maintain the bridges. It's crazy.
They have no money here, but plenty for their "projects" in Europe ... 😅
@@Lydia-Frostwhat dose reparations have to do with this? Honestly how bumfucked does your life have to be to think of reparations every living moment? Smh
AWESOME CHANEL ! GREAT NEWS REPORTING!!!😊
You easily make some of the best youtube videos on my feed
Cash -- as always, thanks for keeping us informed as the city I left decades ago appears to be descending into chaos. And, as always, STAY SAFE!
I like your presentation Cash. Keep it up! From Toronto
there wouldn't be so many homeless in the train system if we gave shelter to homeless citizens instead of illegals
I totally agree
Don't let this stop you from voting blue😂
@@Bart-dg6qv ??? You crazyy? Voting blue created this mess
That's what I just said!
Typical New Yorkers, can’t build a fair city where people actually want to live and work because they coddle the upper classs balls so much, so they just blame the criminals just trying to survive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You get what you vote for
The uniparty 😂
I voted for Trump.
I didn't vote, despite being a New Yorker
@@devinsauls9137I hope you do this time around. I don’t care who you vote for, but please vote 🗳️.
@@devinsauls9137 Your part of the problem
Aside from politics, there are two factors that make people mad about this new tax: (1) How exactly is a 5% budget increase end all of the public transit problems? (2) Show us how effectively and purposely every dollar of the $20 billion budget is being used and then we can talk. Your video nicely points this out and raises tons of other good arguments.
The governor made a tactical error sending in the national guard. At that point I believe Eric yelled "Checkmate" subway safety is the governor's responsibility.
Almost at a Millie! Well deserved, I really enjoy watching your content. I'm living in downtown Toronto, Canada, but we are dealing with very similar issues as NYC right now.
I know what you mean, Toronto was such a lovely city back in the day, but things have changed so much and mostly for the worse… just really sad to see.
I took a trip to New York City for the first time a month ago, and can say with a certainty that I wont be going back, It wasn't worth it, pretty sure I got pickpocketed 5 times, Luckily I wasn't carrying anything important. Subway was confusing and impossible to navigate without prior notion of were to go. Most if not all of the landmark's were uninteresting and the noise pollution was horrific.
Funding a service by taxing the very people who don't use that service... how does one justify that?
By knowing you’re part of a community, and a greater overall community.
Plenty of childless people, or old people with or without kids pay taxes into schools.
Just because you don’t use it, doesn’t mean much of anything.
You don’t use the tanks the govt. purchases. You don’t use some road in some random town in the state you live in. We can name a lot of stuff you don’t use, and yet, they need you to be taxed for it to exist.
Why are people so strange about taxes? You realize that this is just how power works, right? Biggest caveman is the chief, he gets the most meat and the women, the food/women tax. Knights fought in the army of the king, gave food and protection, taxed to keep the land you call home safe from the neighbors that want it. And now, you have to pay for other people to use the subway you don’t use. Who may frequent the store you work at, because they were able to keep their job by using the subway.
I don’t really get the problem, when we can name thousands of things you don’t use that your taxes pay for.
@@QQ-qz5ftTaxation without representation was exactly the reason this country was founded and established!
@@larrycampbell6133 Taxes are primarily the reason why the economy is so rough for the lower class. Not only is it Taxation without representation but the a blatant misappropriation of the amount we are getting taxed in the first place. they money is not going to where its needed.
If it actually did we would not care about it. When a Bus Sign(Glorified one in San Fran) costs 2million to install then obviously something is wrong. that should not have cost more then 1 grand at the worst. with most of the price being Material Cost
@@QQ-qz5ft You misunderstood me. The tax I'm talking about specifically targets people who do NOT use the service. It's not just a tax you pay EVEN IF you don't use the service. It's a tax you pay IF AND ONLY IF you don't use the service. Do you get the difference and how it can raise eyebrows?
People who take the subway can evade fare and seemingly nobody cares, but people who drive in the streets will likely have to pay for the subway they chose not to take. How is that fair?
@@luciengrondin5802Cause cars on the road are actually incredibly taxing on the infrastructure itself. In addition to additional revenue for infrastructure, congestion pricing was meant to discourage people from driving unless necessary. Walk around in midtown and it is gridlock for cars during peak hours. I can't count how many cars almost ran me over blasting through a red light cause of road rage. They add stress to the roads (adding to how often we need to replace roads), makes buses slower, prevents emergency vehicles from moving, etc. I didn't read the whole plan in full, and they should have made some peak v non-peak times and such, but all this discourse about what is fair and what isn't fair do not seem to consider the picture in full. Public transit must be funded at least in part by people who do not use it. If it is completely paid by the people who use it, then we would be paying $20 a ride if not more. And cause it is so expensive, service is reduced. And if service is reduced, less people take it cause it isn't convenient. And everyone gets a car and no one goes anywhere.