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public transit is good.

the MTA experience is so bad that ridership is already way down and trending downwards.

Bad compared to what? I take it four days a week and I would never trade it for having to drive a car myself.

The stations are filthy, have poor accessibility, the signage is tattered, the PA systems almost never work, the ETAs are often wrong if they’re even offered. That’s aside from the not uncommon sights and smells of piss in the cars themselves. The bus system is a different crapshoot altogether.

I find it interesting how often when people complain about how poor the experience is, there are those like you who seem to be quite content with maintaining a fairly low standard.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree on all counts and it really is decades behind other (non-US) cities – but again, I'd take it over driving a car myself and having to worry about traffic and parking any day, congestion charge or not.

I don't have a great idea for addressing all of these problems, but I strongly suspect that people who can afford it opting out of public transit in favor of cars would be even worse.

> I find it interesting how often when people complain about how poor the experience is, there are those like you who seem to be quite content with maintaining a fairly low standard.

Those of us from outside Manhattan envy what you have because it's better than what we have.

I was just in Manhattan last week and commenting to my friend how I didn't even need to look it up ahead of time -- I knew that I could get where I needed to go using the MTA. Can't say the same for pretty much any other city.

Two years before I moved out of NYC I swore off the subway entirely in favor of walking, busses and ubers.

Literally incorrect. Please do any at all research before you say things that are completely wrong because you simply don't give a damn about reality.

https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus...

Numbers are trending up incredibly quickly after Covid.

Compared to during covid sure. But the article itself says ridership is at 58% of 2019 level. And that's from 2022, subways have gotten worse since then.

This, exactly.

Ah yes, let me sit on a train for 1.5 hours to travel 10 miles

Taxing drivers is not improving public transit.

Hah, we all know the NYC experience is about bringing a personal automobile onto the island of Manhattan.

>public transit is good.

Is that with or without a concealed carry weapon?

Destructive devices license. Minimum artillery shell size: 150mm.

so out of touch

NYC has turned into Gotham City and Batman moved to Florida.

Apparently you don't even need to bring your own, you can just take it from the guy attacking you.

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