Public transit systems already get like 80+% of their funding from .gov anyway.
What’s another 20%?
Cities. LOL
“Public transportation is rarely profitable but is essential to the success of major cities, Anderson said, comparing slashing government transport spending to “killing the golden goose.”
The golden goose is dead and liberal shithole cities with it.
Everyone in the burbs and the country are tired of paying for pubic transportation that they haven’t ever used, and have no intention ever starting.
With the advent of 5G and telecommunications, cities are becoming obsolete. Wall street can become a computer bank somewhere in Florida or Texas, as an example.
That’s the 49th Street station at 7th Ave. ironically that’s where I used to get off for work at a previous place of employment. It was never that dead even on the quietest days.
Here in the DC area they whine about how Metro doesn't get "dedicated" funding from the federal government. But they got a giant bailout last spring to keep running. More importantly the federal government pays for transit for all federal workers. Not only that, but the subsidy is far more than most workers use in a month, so they get to spend the rest on leisure rides or sell the credits on the black market.
“Passenger numbers on New York’s MTA and London’s Underground metro system initially crashed by around 95 percent, and have since recovered to only about one-third of last year’s levels.” Why would this happen in New York? Didn’t the governor or the mayor tell people early on that it was safe to ride the subway? ;)
Oh boo hoo. The government put tens of thousands of small businesses out of business. Cry me a river.
This is bad news for subway muggers.
The covid mortality rate is .23......POINT TWO THREE.
More than wuflu....
Robotaxis.
Telecommuting.
The Boring Company.
Starlink internet.
Subways will cease and the tunnels will be used for robotaxis.
The carless urbanites will move to the suburbs and use robotaxis.
The urban underclass will move to the suburbs and get free use of robotaxis.
The upper middle class and above will move to the country and use satellite Internet to telecommute.
etc. etc. etc.
bump
The Death Spiral is now a Rocket Sled on Rails thanks to Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo.
Their COVID response has lubed the rails with super slick grease.
Work from home will become permanent now that employers have learned that they can cut the need to rent office space that their employees can get for free at home.
Fewer people traveling to the cities to work, fewer people eating in the city because they stayed home.
People working from home won’t be paying income taxes to the city, people won’t be buying things in the city so no sales taxes will they pay in the city.
Some of the big earners kept apartments in the city so they wouldn’t have to commute during the week. Rents will be dropping when these apartments become available.
Property values will be falling in the city because of the excess of office space and apartments, which equals lower property tax revenues to the state and city governments.
The mayor and governor started to kill restaurants in the city by limiting seating or forcing them to close but driving people out of the city surely isn’t helping.
These New World Socialist wanted to force us all to live in cities to minimize human impact on the environment but their COVID dictatorships are driving everyone out of the cities. And as the article says they are killing public transportation in the process and public transportation is another of those keystones of the Green Edifice they put on their Green Plan to save the environment.
Nice work you idiots.
In Raleigh area public transports are always empty basically. Maybe 1 or 2 people on board these huge buses. Waste of money. Either cut it out or just invest in smaller vans ya know!
Left to itself it rusts and "drys up"
If mechanics are not constantly doing PM for instance, the fleet will die ....
Mayor’s will simply raise taxes to support it.
How will the muggers survive if there are no riders on the subway? Who will see the taggers’ magnificent “works of art” if there are no riders?
A few years ago, Hillsborough County voters voted for a sales tax increase, for more routes to the rural areas, but they used it to buy buses - not routes. One Hillsborough County commissioner is fighting the tax increase, because it is not helping the rural areas.(1 route to the southern part of the county - every 90 minutes ).
Another pipe dream of liberals here is the Hyperloop from here to Orlando and Hi Speed Rail to Orlando, Miami and Jacksonville and commuter rail. They have a plan to expand the ferry from Tampa to St. Pete to include stops in Apollo Beach and near McDill Air Force Base and they just got funding to expand the street car line.
No problem. Soon, under SsloJoe, all public transportation will only cost 5 kopeks.
In the age of work-from-home, transportation infrastructure
could become drastically different.
Add it to gun control, big city padded finances, illegal immigration, offshoring of our manufacturing and a host of Leftist goals.