Posted on 04/05/2017 4:39:51 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Frank Fleming, New Jersey feels your pain, and shares your fury.
You may not know him, but Fleming this week became the voice of New Jersey after a simple derailment at Penn Station knocked our fragile rail system on its butt for the entire week.
Fleming was heading to Citi Field for the Mets' opening game on Monday, when he fell into a pit of hell at Secaucus Junction, along with many thousands of others. The trip from his home in Belleville took five hours. Five more to get home.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Those 1 trillion 0bama bucks took care of all that, chief, we’re good
Small govt is not big mommy and daddy govt.
Take uber or buy a cheap car. Lot more freedom.
It is not virtuous for govt to raise people to want to live like hamsters in cages.
Not ever.
Where did all that money go? Studies, Administrative fees....more studies......
Large government collects too much taxes putting businesses out of business and surviving businesses not only can’t run their own business but can not get maintenance done.
Public transportation is good sometimes. They have to have the right leadership at these transportation agencies.
Article’s verdict: “Other people don’t give us enough of their money.”
Heck, New Jersey has a National Guard. Just send them across the borders to take the money for public transit.
If everyone in the New York metropolitan area commuted by car, it would take everyone five hours to get home (probably longer). The New York City subway alone (not counting the commuter railroads) has more than 5,650,000 riders each weekday.
Sometimes. But they breed govt workers and umions and kickback deals.
The more flexible a systemm is the better. Fixed rail crap on streets is the worst. Notmto mention archaic. Stuff on wheels is better but public transpo is a disease spreader too.
Cab and uber services serve the public as well.
Charge the fair price for it and do your own capital projects and maintenance. You’ll get just as much good pub transit as you need.
It is underground and not competing with street level trafic. Not what i am refering to.
NYC’s impressive subway system was built by a competitive free market.
Since it became a government monopoly it has become schlerotic and expensive.
Guys like Edwin Hawley either don't show up in government agencies in the first place, or they go native.
Mr. niteowl77
Extorting money from people who don’t use mass transit to subsidize systems for those who do is just another form of wealth redistribution.
Another way big government unfairly picks winners and losers.
Put mass transit back in the hands of private industry and stop the subsidies.
That's almost one trillion for each year of the Obama regime. Congress never passed a budget, just used baseline budgeting which means adding a certain % increase each year. That initial stimulous was increased along with everything else. What did it buy. Congress is complicit in this.
Offer all those folks $1,500 per year tax break in lieu of public transportation and see how many takers they have:)
What “small” government are they talking about?
New Jersey has not had “small government” for 70 years, at least.
It is big government that is usually incompetent.
Big government works when it can steal money from someone else. That is the Author’s prescription. Have people in other states (federal money) bail out New Jersey.
You want mass transit ... pay for it. There is always more people in CA, NY, NJ, Ma, CT, etc. that demand mass transit ... so raise taxes on those citizens.
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