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And this is why we pirate movies and tv shows

Sooooooo being that I've lived in all three places, I can speak from a place of actual knowledge and not blind loyalty to an underperforming city. This isn't what I think or feel or hope to be true. This is what I've actually lived.

> Shanghai and Hong Kong do not have flat fares, they have fare zones. Shanghai’s is probably cheaper on average than New York’s, but I doubt if Hong Kong’s is.

Distance based fare is a knock on the MTA and not Shanghai Metro. The Shanghai Metro system is larger in distance than the MTA system and the most you'd pay is $2.18 for a trip. That's ONLY if you're going from the extreme ends on the system, which is generally unlikely because most destinations you'd go to are in the metro area, versus the outskirts and villages of the Shanghai Region. A short trip within the 4 Train circle will cost you about $0.45. An average one, probably $0.80 - $1.00. Add that to the fact that you do not have to leave the system to access any train within the network.

HK Metro is also cheaper than the MTA, in exchange for for much better service. Mind you, the MTA is not even the busiest service in the world. It's not even in the top 5.

https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-articles/118931/10-busiest-metro-systems/

> Shanghai receives huge subsidies to operate and both HK’s and SH’s are not open 24/7.

As far as subsidies, the MTA is also being subsidized. To the tune of nearly $8 Billion annually. As is the nature of all public infrastructure. It's not supposed to be wholly self sufficient. That would defeat its purpose of being for the general public. So other metro systems being "subsidized" is another weak argument. We're just really bad. And we shouldn't be. Not with the amount of money we spend.

That being said, the MTA is wildly inefficient, overpriced, and subpar. It's embarrassing.

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Yeah I really don't believe this at all. Picture also shows another bowl. So they dumped it from the to-go container into the bowl then saw it? Just seems very off.

Edit: Welp nevermind. https://a816-health.nyc.gov/ABCEatsRestaurants/#!/Search/50040296

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Try working with your grandpa's insurer or the original doctor's office to get recommendations on providers that should be accepting new patients? Member services should be a pretty good place to start.

It’s the only thing good de Blasio did. I’m not sure where you live or you’re just angry, but my daughter was in 3k and is now in 4K, it has been absolutely great for her and the family.

City council has to blame someone. That’s what they’re paid for.

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Yes. I was by the chase bank when he approached me. He seemed to be in a good mood and was making jokes with everyone. He told me I need to retire cuz I’m 36, he told the guy before me to retire his car from 2003 and he told the woman to retire her 5 year old dog. Is Kerlin outgoing and a jokester?

I got there around 4:30 so probably 4:30-4:45

The New York Times writes:

> The estimated $500 million in capital spending would also go toward creating dedicated bus lanes along 31st Street and 19th Avenue in Queens and making the Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. station on the N and W lines accessible to people with disabilities, the Port Authority said. Some of that money could also be spent to create a mile-long lane exclusive to buses on the northbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway between Northern Boulevard and Astoria Boulevard, the Port Authority said.

Alon responds:

> To be very clear, it does not cost $500 million to make a station wheelchair-accessible. In New York, the average cost is around $70 million in 2021 dollars, with extensive contingency, planned by people who’d rather promise 70 and deliver 65 than promise 10 and deliver 12. In Madrid, the cost is around 10 million euros per station, with four elevators (the required minimum is three), and in Milan, shallow three-elevator station retrofits are around 2 million per station. Transfer stations cost more, proportionately to the number of lines served, but Astoria-Ditmars is not a transfer station and has no such excuse. So where is the other $430 million going?

> The answer cannot just be bus lanes on 31st Street (on which the Astoria Line runs) or 19th Avenue (the industrial road the indicated extension on the map would run on). Bus lanes do not cost $430 million at this scale. They don’t normally cost anything – red paint and “bus only” markings are a rounding error, and bus shelter is $80,000 per stop with Californian cost control (to put things in perspective, I heard a $10,000-15,000 quote, in 2020 dollars, from a smaller American city).

And on the exhorbitant estimates used to dismiss a subway line extension:

> The panel realized that the best option is an extension of the subway. Such an extension would be about 4.7 km long and around one third underground, or potentially around 5 km and entirely above-ground if for some reason tunneling under airport grounds were cost-prohibitive. This does not cost $7 billion, not even in New York. We know this, because Second Avenue Subway phase 1 was, in today’s money, around $2.2 billion per km, and phase 2 is perhaps a little more. There are standard subway : elevated cost ratios out there; the ones that emerge from our database tend to be toward the higher end perhaps, but still consistent with a ratio of about 2.5.

> Overall, this is in theory pretty close to $7 billion for a one-third underground extension from Astoria to the airport. But in practice, the tunneling environment in question is massively easier than both phases of Second Avenue Subway – there’s plenty of space for cut-and-cover boxes in front of the terminal, a more controllable utilities environment, and not much development in the way of the elevated sections, which are mostly in an industrial zone to be redeveloped.

Damn, I'm really sorry. I'll take extra care to look at everyone around me when I'm commuting home later in case there's a chance to spot him. Good luck with the search, hopefully he's found safe and sound soon.

Well shit. That's something you don't see every day.

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Is this the right train station? https://www.google.com/search?q=scarsdale+station+photos&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS853US853&oq=scarsdale+train+station&aqs=chrome.0.0i355i512j46i175i199i512j0i512l2j46i175i199i512j0i512l2j46i175i199i512.6830j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&si=AEcPFx7fVJyGBm9XMHCy9NNw2q6pIfE_1CBOT7oNR-h_-FUeIOVV-4RGuWe7FNDJceCeb5g2D9nd0OBNniPqHyjlsRPNaQhD2Beea4peTHRjzj3tUiWfs2mMCVyWoqy-T7IrQRB7it0M7UV4wk_EqtbHKLp9nOD0ig%3D%3D&ictx=1&ved=2ahUKEwjtouOcj-P9AhUGjokEHWZ3DwsQyNoBKAF6BAgNEAg#lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D

Do you remember what time when you saw him? 🙏

Fifteen billion dollars.
That’s how much money the state legislature mandated the MTA must raise through congestion pricing — by leveraging annual revenue to borrow $15 billion for the transit agency’s current five-year capital program.

THAT strict revenue target. You're ignoring patterns where they are.

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Not an outreach problem. As a parent with 2 small children. Your schools are garbage and your 3k programs are even worse. I gladly pay for private school and private 3k.

If "you" are a persistent felon. "You" should get bail. My point is, bail reform protects "you.". Please stop describing the law in terms of anyone else.

"You" have the right to the presumption of innocence. "You" have the right to due process. Bail is not punishment.

That said, if "you" demonstrate a persistence in criminal activity, "you" should be held until trial.

I agree completely with bail reform.

> If "you" are not an imminent threat to "your" community, the court "must" forgo bail.

You must be thinking of another state, because that sweeping statement doesn’t apply to New York.

Courts in NY cannot consider public safety or threat to the public when deciding bail.

In general, NY courts are required to apply the “least restrictive measure” to ensure the appearance in court.

The exception is when the defendant is a threat to a specific and identified person (like in a domestic violence case).

But if it’s just a stupid person (say playing the knockout game targeting random victims), there’s nothing that the NY judicial system can legally do in practice to stop that person from reoffending as many times as they want.

high rent and high income used to be two big ways they would become unregulated, which is no longer a possibility after the changes in 2019. 421-A abatements would have to expire, or owners would have to combine units to deregulate them. I believe they can also put a lot of money into renovations and then raise the rent a % of the money they put into the reno