The "kerning" is so terrible, this wouldn't be an issue for a skilled Graphic Designer.

how do you propose we do that? cuomo already hired a bunch of police officers in 2020 for this exact reason and clearly that hasn’t helped. go into the average station and the officers are standing around on their phones or harassing unhoused people. the goal should be moving away from reliance of ticket revenue to keep the mta afloat. public transportation is a public service and should ultimately be free. there are much more effective ways for the mta to address its budgeting problems.

I've always felt that getting a major roadway named after you in the NYC area is such a dishonor. Your name is just going to get associated with a dangerous, congested, aging piece of infrastructure that is generally hated by the public.

It's a double edge sword. People in the agencies abuse their position and create inefficient bureaucracies. Being on the consultant side for public projects, they start and restart a hundred times over. A normal project that should take a year to build out last for 5 years. For this reason you have to bake in triple your fee because you are going to need to support a project for a signicantly long duration. Not seeing work completed can be draining.

And the gigantic irony is, where do you think the consulting firms get their consultants? What kind of planners, engineers, designers in the tri-state region are going to have expert knowledge on building and maintaining large-scale subway and light rail systems? MTA employees! So many of these consulting firms are just hiring ex-MTA employees who end up doing the exact same thing they were doing last year except now it costs the MTA three times as much as it used to.

Astoria here - Took me about four minutes to shovel my steps, walk and the walk in front of the neighbour’s place. I would guesstimate less than 2”

Jakie Robinson from State Farm

Wow, I’ve heard of guys having storage spots to charge up their bike batteries.

Ultimately the gig economy is exploitative so this is why drivers use these bikes. Should go back to the days of delivery zones. If you’re beyond a certain distance order from a place closer to you. I see people ordering food from restaurants over a mile away on the apps. Yet they pay the same or a little worse than they would if they were dining in.

Negligible compared to the MTA waste and corruption

Apologies on the misattribution.

However, "having an in-house team" really elides the fact that the in-house team that is under 8% of what it used to be, staffing wise. And before you say "that's not the same team," it doesn't actually matter if that team is the specific team in question or not - it is indicative of a general and deliberate trend of downsizing knowledgable government bureaucrats that leaves public service with serious brain drain and manpower issues. It is not incompetence to have to hire consultants to manage consultants when there is no one left. It's making the best of what you have when given an otherwise impossible task. That is how government is forced to work these days. It doesn't matter how competent your people are if you don't actually have people.

It is borderline tautological that if you want functioning government agencies you have to actually have those government agencies instead of... no one.

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>Jacob T. Robinson (March 27, 1920 - April 5, 2013) was a professional baseball third baseman in the Negro leagues. He played with the Chicago American Giants in 1947.

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That was my thought too. Of course, it could have and should have been addressed before it was installed!

Maybe they meant this guy

This was a hoax. This never happened.

Color me shocked.

Have you tried giving the MTA even less money to see if it makes the stations cleaner? You should try that next

This sign must have been made by a consultant 🙄🙄

Yes, the famously powerful republican party of new york city is consistently defunding the civil service, thank you for speaking about this.

Cleanliness is the main issue. Requiring supervision and cleaning. No getting around it.

Ok, just making a suggestion.

>Has anyone come across an apartment listing of a recently converted office space? I'd be curious to see the final product.

You end up with stuff like this:

https://streeteasy.com/building/downtown-by-philippe-starck/2312

Yup, that's a 1,300 sqft studio; not legally a one bedroom because the "bedroom" doesn't have a window.

Nice pun.

I wonder if that’s intentional because it looks like adding the “c” would push Robinson down to the next line, unless they decreased the font size.

For STM it’s 1.7B CAD or 1.25B USD. So NYC has 20x the budget.

Are you on the MTAs payroll or something? How are you defending a higher budget? People like you are why taxes are so fucked in this city. You probably don’t even pay income taxes which would explain why you’re not mad about this.