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Inevitable_Celery510 t1_je2gq9m wrote

Reply to comment by TeamMisha in MTA Doubles Down on Construction Costs by michaelmvm

Worked on that job, 2nd Ave, (design companies)someone walked away with a lot of money and no one was accountable.

Workers loved me, (MTA) but corrupt company (Design Firms) management replaced me with an incompetent, figured they had an excuse to get rid of me, laid me off after my mom died! Someone really disliked good accountability and compliant behavior.

My manager was let go some years later, he was also a great engineer.

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thisisntmineIfoundit t1_je2gi3k wrote

Reply to People are smoking on the train and the MTA does not give a shit by Topher1999

This is one of those issues where I say we all band together and go full Karen as a community. It is so against the norms we've all agreed upon to live in this crowded city together we just cannot keep sliding downwards like this. I've been here 11 years and 100% of the "smoking a cig or other substance in a train car" incidents I've witnessed have all occurred within the last year and a half or so.

Say something in person if you deem it safe to do so (big judgement call here, do your best) or alert the conductor.

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Particular-Wedding t1_je2ghx3 wrote

Reply to People are smoking on the train and the MTA does not give a shit by Topher1999

The MTA employee who told you no doesn't seem to understand that THEY too will be inhaling that smoke b/c it is all recycled air. There are a lot of junkies on the trains who will smoke far more than weed - I have seen people light up crude pipes made out of a bic pen. It smells like a combination of burning plastic and a strong industrial chemical odor. My guess is that is not weed but something far harsher like meth or fentanyl.

Edit - in fact, the MTA employees will actually be in a far worse position than the commuters long term b/c we at least have a destination to get off while they are inside the same train for hours at a time while the recycled air from different passengers is turned over and over again.

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Inevitable_Celery510 t1_je2g2z1 wrote

Reply to comment by P0stNutClarity in MTA Doubles Down on Construction Costs by michaelmvm

Money set aside for work in the federal level has been spent without anyone checking the books to see what really happened.

Those of us who cares were let go, racial profiling was a part of being let go, but more so it was those who no longer wanted to be part of the corrupt system just burning tax dollars.

If you all only knew the deep dark truth, you’d really be cursing!

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Treehaus_user t1_je2fxrx wrote

Reply to People are smoking on the train and the MTA does not give a shit by Topher1999

The MTA are not law enforcement. You report crimes to law enforcement. Sadly LE is non existent. But don't blame the MTA. The NYPD transit division - yes blame them. If someone walked into your office and was smiking are your going to arrest them? Oh becuase you would call security, who would call the NYPD. Think things through smooth brain.

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Inevitable_Celery510 t1_je2ffh3 wrote

Reply to comment by CactusBoyScout in MTA Doubles Down on Construction Costs by michaelmvm

France, Japan even Canada have sophisticated cost plans that make their subway projects way more cost worth your money.

Attended Cuomos so-called genius program. Met some intelligent engineers from Japan.

New York transit is managed by a cesspool of wasteful public transit managers with workers who are not even close up to any American standard of industry we once had.

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