[fsargent]

Shocked you’d say that. Where did you live? Brooklyn and queens are underserved and car brained, but manhattan’s train service is a dream. Yes the MTA needs more budget for infrastructure and renovations but could you imagine if every person who took transit were driving, and needed a place to park in Manhattan? The upcoming congestion charge is a great way to make private the public costs of cars, and I hope that we manage to fully internalize driving’s externalities with tolls taxes and congestion charges, which can provide enough general funds for robust public transportation.

[codekansas]

MTA's issues aren't really funding issues, it's just not done very well in comparison to other large cities. For example, for legacy reasons MTA cars can't be automated like the cars in subways in most other places that have them, so you end up with a lot more humans being in the loop, which results in more delays due to human fallibility. It's a very old system that has been largely reluctant to upgrade and is falling behind the rest of the world in many ways (admittedly no where else in the US though).