How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways

Re:How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways by Arnt on Monday November 20, 2017 @03:30AM (#15738604)

TfL is. Everyone does that. It's part of the taxes that employers pay on top of salaries.

That's part of the reason why the cost of an employee is so much higher than the salary, and it's one of the costs you save by having nominally independent contractors instead of employees.

TfL does have good planning, though, and is largely able to fix things before they grow too expensive.

https://pedestrianobservations.com/category/new-york/ BTW.

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Re:How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways by inferiorhuman on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:32AM (#15747002)

> TfL is. Everyone does that. It's part of the taxes that employers pay on top of salaries.

Right, but TfL is paying into a system that every working Briton pays into. What the New York MTA pays into (mostly) is a scheme that benefits a much smaller group.

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