• irotsoma@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    As long as that money is spent on public transit improvements, I think it’s a great idea for many large cities.

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      18 hours ago

      is spent on pubic transit

      Hahahahahaha

      Oh sorry, I thought you were joking. Of course they won’t

      • bloup@lemmy.sdf.org
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        17 hours ago

        is there any particular reason you’re saying that besides cynicism? I am having trouble finding specifics, but there’s a lot of reporting that the MTA is expecting to raise $15 billion from congestion tolling to fund public transportation repairs and improvements and pretty much all of the proposals for this in the past required all of the revenues to be earmarked for use by the MTA

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          Mostly because tolls have always been a promise to improve infrastructure and then sometimes end up going to other things nobody wanted. A big one I hear about is my understanding that the NJ parkway toll promised that once the toll money made enough to pay for the highway it would be removed. Well, we all know how well that went… it’s just hard to hear anything they say and not go I’ll believe it when I see it.

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          16 hours ago

          People are so used to how bad things are they don’t trust improvement, even when it’s real.

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            59 minutes ago

            don’t trust improvement

            *By a corrupt government which has proven itself to mismanage funds as a default.

            Can’t really speak to NYC local but time will tell. Although to give them credit, most NYers I’ve met enjoy their public transportation. But the admonishment of general government expenditure distrust is completely valid imo

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              42 minutes ago

              NYC as an institution has many hard-working people at all levels dedicated to their communities.

              The mayor, however, is a worthless self-serving piece of shit that sold out to foreign nationals, and a good chunk of the city elite are corrupt one way or another.

              It’s a very, very mixed bag.

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        17 hours ago

        I certainly hope it won’t be spent on pubic transit, at least.