cities are anachronisms today. The more subways, the more taller buildings, the higher the infrastructure costs and the more revenue a city has to generate to justify it own existence
no need to concentrate, capital, material and human resources on rail lines, waterways, harbors or interstates any longer in the 21st century
they are sources of voter fraud and voter disenfranchisement
The Muni-Bond Market of the last 40 years tells you al you need to know about the viability and utility of metro areas today
“The more subways, the more taller buildings, the higher the infrastructure costs”
I’ve felt for a long time that the cost of maintaining this infrastructure was not understood or was ignored.