And now we fund large, tax-break dependent business and entertainment districts on train yards rather than solve existing capacity and commuting issues within the current system. There are great economic effects in improving the commute of 100,000 people by ten to fifteen minutes, but that's not easy for a property developer to capture, so it's not a good project.

In fact, the 7 Line extension serving the Hudson Yards development in New York also involved a bait-and-switch in which a intermediate subway station was promised, the neighborhood was developed, and then the subway station was cancelled due to cost concerns.