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right? not even a bit of a rat, no, a full fucking cooked rat. sure. sure.

Japanese trains are a mix of a public/private and they’re stellar

For London that's mainly because of the way fares work and the reduced number of stations and hours even though there's slightly more track. The system is divided up into zones encircling central London and depending on between which zones you are traveling and whether you are traveling at a peak hour, the fare goes up.

It would be like if within the bottom half of Manhattan, and within each borough the fare was 2.75 but then if you crossed between them you'd get charged an extra two dollars. There are also daily and weekly caps that depend on zones and peak times. It's a pretty complicated fare system.

The weekly cap for the largest zone travel is like 90 dollars, way more than the 33 dollar cap the MTA has.

The buses in London also work differently and some are much cheaper than the London Underground (and MTA) and have daily caps of like 5 dollars while others are more expensive.

Buses in London are also subsidized, unlike the trains. Makes sense considering there are over 700 lines and like 20 thousand bus stops in London, double that of the MTA.

The Tokyo metro also has ticket price tiers that depend on distance traveled (they still use paper tickets where you get a source and destination station iirc). These actually cap out at like $2.50 USD. Again though, beyond the cost of operation being cheaper in Japan, there are reduced hours and fewer stations and daily ridership is actually higher than the NYC subway.

All this is to say, these self funded systems depend on pretty different conditions from the MTA. The MTA to self fund like this would have to do a combination of hour reductions and tiered distance and congestion pricing.

It would be very expensive just to to make the logistical changes to how swipes work for that, but imo is also just not socially worth it. I'd rather have a progressive percentage tax on all city residents and businesses (to hit the commuters out of city) and make the whole system free than do some chicanery of "well we'll target 50 percent self funded so raise fares x amount, spend this much to do cross-borough pricing, and reduce hours by y".

We should also transition the MTA to being fully state owned, not the current public benefit corporation model.

People underestimate how EASY it is to get an A grade. To get anything lower just means the restaurant owners either don't give a f or are extremely incompetent.

I also worked in food industry during high school and college.

A well to do couple from well off families I might add with prestigious careers. Ambulance chasers I think not. If you said thrill seekers that's more plausible but still highly doubtful. Plus wouldn't you sue if the risk to your life was insulted with a payoff? I think people are forgetting the health implications of this is literally deadly serious. Many people have died from leptospirosis from rats contaminating the lips of containers with pee or droppings (always wash soda cans or even any exposed lid). What more of a whole rat with the other things they carry inside their bodies like parasites. Those things are harder to kill with heat even. So yeah let that sink in and try not to treat it as a joke and see if you wouldn't go through the same thing when it does happen to you.

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I’m guessing the fact that they both have zoned fares helps. A flat rate at the same ridership level will bring in less revenue.

The couple isn't money hungry. They're pretty well to do from well off families. Money is the least of their worries. Health is. No amount of money can pay for the many things you can possibly get from rats. Death included. Let that sink in.

We complain but a flat fare is such a good thing for commuters.

Did you have a token holder? Those made tokens easier to manage.

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There aren't enough street spots for many residential areas even with permits. We don't have any really large self-park garages in the city for people to just pull in, pay, and not be circling around looking for a spot. And developers won't construct them as it's not profitable.

Could maybe ban street parking for out-of-state plates (permit them to park at garages + private property) or allow them to park at certain hours? Maybe take away the licenses + cars from drivers who have caused multiple accidents or have been caught driving recklessly a few times? Or have a more difficult requalifying exam for drivers who have had x years of experience and/or at certain age? Maybe have congestion pricing and have different rates for out-of-state plates vs. plates registered to a NYC address?

Could also do other things such as change the timing of shift changes. Example: nurses at all the hospitals (to my knowledge) do 12-hour shifts starting/ending at 7:00am/pm. Could have the hours at nearby hospitals staggered so one hospital does 8am/pm shift changes and the other one does 9am/pm?

Could also do a dedicated SI-lower BKLYN-QNS underground roadway that trucks get a dedicated lane or two where once you're in it, there's no way to get to Manhattan? It'll alleviate a lot of the traffic on the BQE.

There are many ways to address traffic, but it's going to require great ideas, the willingness to implement them, the money to do so, enforcement, etc. No one's going to be happy with all of it (see the Brooklyn Promenade right now), but it'll have to be done sooner or later.

If you read through it, they had food DELIVERED. You really wouldn't notice the rat unless you get some of the soup out, in which case the soup was split and some had been eaten and voila rat surprise. Also that soup isn't really the clearest of Korean soups with all the trimmings in it to boot. I've also read some comments that if it wasn't planted, the rat should have disintegrated in the cooking. That's assuming it was cooked from the start and had not fallen near the end of the cook. Also assuming rats have the same consistency of usual beef or pork meat. I'm not completely surprised that it could happen. The restaurant business is tough and standards are understandably difficult to maintain. So I would be harsher to judge a resto with plenty of health violations that should've been closed before would post as their defense in-store videos with no timestamps on orders picked up not by the couple but a delivery service. That does not exactly show anything against the claim - could've been somebody else's order. The mention of missing chopsticks and the disputed number of soups ordered seen in the video can readily be disputed by a "receipt" which I'm sure the couple could easily provide for their defense. If the receipt doesn't match the number of soups in the video then even the chopstick/soup counter claim of the reso falls apart. Yeah I highly doubt a well-to-do Asian couple would try to make a quick buck and file a lawsuit that could easily backfire if they and the lawyers weren't confident enough to prove otherwise. That and you would feel just as enraged if it were you in the couple's shoes. Eating a dead street rat is no joke. There's a crap ton of things you can get sick of from rats. Those are people's lives you're talking about, not just the couple, I'm sure they got soup from that same batch sent out with other orders as well without the "rat surprise". Just suck it up Gammeeok. You unknowingly made a bad order and should've handled it better.

This is one of the reasons they should improve transit on Staten Island to shorten commutes. Taking half an hour out of commute times everyday would go a long way to getting better sleep.

I mean yeah.. but 5k vs 500 million.

What's more work, cutting down 100,000 trees? Or painting a couple of miles of existing roads?

Huh interestingly that is a lot closer to true average price on london tube

if its expired within one year, you can just do that in the machine.

past that, you gonna have to send it in.

They’re so sensitive, you can dump your coke out of the baggie and test the bag itself. I don’t want to keep engaging with misinformation, fentanyl test strips aren’t new and the science supports us helping folks survive nightlife.

FTS can detect 10 nano grams of fentanyl per ml. Fact. So 2 mg - 2000 micrograms or 200000 nanogqms. The test can detect 10 nano grams per ml.

Welcome to NYC government pricing, where cutting down a tree costs $5k.

Wait 500 MILLION dollars for a couple of miles of bus lanes on already existing roads?

What in the flying fuck!?

Farebox recovery ratio

>The farebox recovery ratio (also called fare recovery ratio, fare recovery rate or other terms) of a passenger transportation system is the fraction of operating expenses which are met by the fares paid by passengers. It is computed by dividing the system's total fare revenue by its total operating expenses.

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This is not true. Both the London Underground and the Tokyo metro system have >100% Farebox recovery ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio There are reasonable discussions to be had about what the “ideal” ratio should be, but self funded is sometimes possible.

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