If it's a larger, busy bar it's pretty easy to just walk right in and use the bathroom (if you're old enough to get in at least).

Democrats in the House, Senate, and White House have not forgotten about NYC public transit at all. Aside from the typical Annual Federal Budget distributions, NYC received $2 Billion in the Infrastructure Bill and $6 billion in the COVID relief package.

https://bronx.news12.com/ny-public-transit-agencies-to-get-2-billion-from-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/01/12/mta-receives--6-billion-covid-recovery-grant-from-feds-

oh boy, can't wait for next year's budget shortfall for the city.

The MTA is a blackhole money pit. Throwing more federal money at it will only make the hole bigger.

It is funded properly. It needs to get its house in order.

Oh there’s substantial failures in both categories

I think you two are confusing 'funded' for 'managed'.

Montreal (STM) has the best run subway system in North America and it costs about 2 billion per year. So let’s use it as an example of value for money.

MTA is about 399km STM is about 70km

MTA has about 500 stations STM has about 60

MTA operates more types of trains, has longer service hours, and runs on older more expensive tracks.

MTA’s budget should be FAR larger.

23 billion for a system that large is fucking embarrassing. And that’s why the stations are embarrassing.

Everyone complains until math gets involved.

I remember being at a company where they sent me to help with a contract. I showed up to sit there with like 20 other people to watch 5 of them discuss the color of a binder for a month. They had to decide on this before we were able to start our work....I never got paid to do so much nothing for so long until the MTA...

23 billion isn’t enough? What are you smoking?

It definitely isn’t, there’s no way the stations would look the way they do if it was.

New York has the most disgusting stations of any metro I’ve ever been to. I’m sure there are worse out there, but I’ve never seen any worse with my own eyes.

Ironically, the MTA needs more middle management.

One of the top drivers of the cost overruns is they constantly hire expensive "consultants" to do everything at twice the cost of a normal 9-5 city worker.

It’s already funded properly…

It's messed up bc I understand. They mismanage...a lot...

Family ties (usually to city inspectors lol)

Expeditor is the term you want.

Look at this post for how to get the right NYPD animal cruelty department. Good luck.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogs/comments/nkdvm9/help_nyc_neighbor_abusing_his_dog/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Ye then you’ll you’ll be the guy in states island who keeps getting sent to jail for not having 300k to tear down illegal renovations lol

Just tell them you think it was an unarmed black man, they'll investigate the shit out of it

Good, fuck em. Spend less.

A sicko is born every minute. Once read a story in the UK where someone was torturing hedgehogs and duct taping their bruised corpses to light posts. Some really sick assholes out here

As a former Letter Carrier the worst bathrooms by far are small/medium-sized supermarkets. Not only are they located in the bowels of the Earth, but they may not have toilet tissue, despite selling it.

That’s what I was getting at in a comment here but you said it WAY better. Thank you

At a certain point "devaluing a building" is better than paying taxes on an empty building that no one can do anything profitable with.

Also at a certain point, doing a small amount of wall work and renting out as many huge residential units as there are bathrooms in the building is better than paying taxes on an empty building that no one else can do anything profitable with.

Like you're talking about the renovations being too expensive... Is that a reason to endlessly hold the property, pay taxes on it, and get nothing forever? No. It's a reason to lower your expectations. It's a reason for your asking price to go down until you're back on the demand curve.

Then if that’s true, shame on the GOP for not doing it, and shame on Schumer for not finding a solution. He’s one of two Senators who claim to be the best of all the millions of us here, THE qualified problem solver who can find creative solutions, fix the impossible, fight for our rights. Not today - today he gives up.

Makes me wonder if he ever intended to work for us