Re:How NYC’s subway got wireless in the tunnels
by JoeAltmaier on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:15AM
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An old lament. Why should rural (anywhere) fund the city folks' needs? E.g. Here in rural Iowa, we pay state taxes for schools like everybody else, and have a tiny underfunded school vs the nearby city's grand edifice with two theatres, enormous football facility, AP classes and full staff.
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Re:How NYC’s subway got wireless in the tunnels
by thescriptkiddie on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:47PM
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In most cases it's the city folks subsidizing the rural folks. It turns out that it costs a lot more money to build the roads, power lines, schools, etc than the small number of rural residents that benefit from them will ever pay in taxes [0]. And in the specific case of New York's MTA, revenue from subway fares has repeatedly been diverted to pay for things other than the subway [1].
[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/7/11/the-hills-are-...
[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2010/03/09/albany-didnt-cut-the-...
Re:How NYC’s subway got wireless in the tunnels
by JoeAltmaier on Friday February 23, 2018 @11:29AM
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Everybody benefits from farm access to markets. Rural roads are there for everybody. To say 'its more money per capita for rural folks' just means you're using a heatmap of population and putting it over infrastructure - shazam, it doesn't match!. But it says nothing about who's getting the utility out of the infrastructure.