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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by ekianjo on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:11PM (#16853313)
> The government should be concerned with the long term benefit to the city overall.

The government should first be concerned by not crushing individuals' rights. That is what Rule of Law is for. Many societies have been utterly destroyed by putting "the general good" as a pretext for policies.

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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by rayiner on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:13PM (#16853329)
What “rights” do individual property owners have to public streets adjacent to their property?
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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by fwn on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:47AM (#16856343)
Contingency.

That's just a standard good governance principle.

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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways by thegayngler on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:29PM (#16854659)
Doesn't the government subsidize these businesses while construction goes on? I guess I was under the impression they would be subsidized.
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