Posted on 05/23/2018 10:41:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
New York has a major opportunity to lead the nation in reducing emissions and to strike a blow against inequality by making significant and bold investments in public transit across the state.
Transportation is now the top climate culprit in New York state, responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than power plants. While our state is ramping up investments in renewable energy, moving people cleanly and efficiently is absolutely critical too. We must address this need by expanding public transit in ways that will also create family-sustaining employment options, improved public health, safety and mobility.
The climate crisis and the transportation sector are inextricably linked. We cannot reduce our carbon footprint in the transportation sector if we don't give people reliable, efficient and affordable alternatives to cars. For too long we have been playing catch-up when it comes to investing in our public transit system and it is taking a toll on our environment, the economies of New York City and state, our health and our quality of life. Investing and expanding public transit has never been more urgent. The future of our region depends on it.
(Excerpt) Read more at crainsnewyork.com ...
John Samuelsen is president of Transport Workers International (TWU), which represents nearly 140,000 members across the airline, railroad, transit, universities, utilities and services sectors. Samuelsen is former president of TWU Local 100 in New York City, the TWU’s largest local.
Looks like a mobster.
Everyone in cattle cars to restrict and control the masses for the good of the collective.
“...reliable, efficient and affordable alternatives to cars...”
Right
They left out ‘safe’. Let’s see some young girl (any girl or woman)standing around in the dark, alone ... waiting for a bus.
Sheesh.
These people are f&^%ing morons!
It’s the key to controlling where people can go and taking more money from everyone.
What hackneyed writing from this choo choo train driver (hint: the rails mean you can't steer).
What is a 'minor opportunity' one wonders?
Hasn't New York led the nation in too many areas - all of them ending in misery and disaster?
New York is a small dot on a very large map. How will reducing emissions in very small area affect the rest of the map, to say nothing of the globe?
What does inequality have to do with it?
New York is, like the rest of Yankeeland, already facing huge budget shortfalls thanks to socialism which causes brain drain. Where will the money for these so-called investments come from?
Improved public transit decreases urban congestion, which encourages ever more people to move into an already overly-large urban area,k which further magnifying the “island of heat” effect.
Therefore public transit exacerbates MMGW.
Ping.
Or when one of these union dwebs fall asleep at the controls or is too busy sexting his homo lover...
Public transit is anything but safe.
crime, incompetent employees from maintenance to conductors/operators, plus environmental dangers like germs, chemicals, exhaust, etc.
Screw public transit, public transit is for the poor. I don’t see Obama taking the subway, do you?
What happened to Goebbels?
Yep!
Science of any kind totally eludes mere journalists. That’s amply demonstrated in their lack of logic and intellect displayed on each and every NYT article.
Hopefully, they will remain in their soon to be sh*thole (believe me, it’s coming) and leave those of us with adequate technical training and the brains to use it out here where we can continue to produce things.
This knucklehead doesn't know that the electricity for mass transit comes from (wait for it) power plants.
The Winos and Muggers Union is behind him 100%.
Beam me up, Scotty.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
>>We must address this need by expanding public transit in ways that will also create family-sustaining employment options, improved public health, safety and mobility.
And there’s the problem. We are a nation of people who use hand sanitizer after shaking hands with a relative. We get mad if there are two people in line in front of us as Wal-Mart. We sit in the parking lot for minutes waiting for someone to load a minivan to get a space that is 50 feet closer to the door.
We are not a nation of people who want to wait for a smelly bus that will pick us up after walking a mile to the trash-strewn bus stop and then will drop us off a mile from our destination.
To give us the bus and rail system that we demand would cost more money and create more carbon than our incredibly efficient modern ICEs deliver today. Euro solutions are not American solutions. Commie TWU solutions are not American solutions.
Transit only works in densely populated areas such as NYC and Philly. Passenger rail only works when such areas are close together, such as the NE corridor. Otherwise, it simply cannot work effectively and economically.
More people use public transit in New York than anywhere else. And the air there is pretty bad.
Look at the public transit system around Dallas Texas and what do you see? Thousands of apartments and zero lot line houses. Massive public transportation expansion is part of Agenda 2030 which replaced the old Agenda 21 which plans to move the proletariat out of the rural areas and into living complexes around public transportation portals so the rabbits, squirrels and mice can live in peace.
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