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Re:NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', ... by ricardoreis on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:02PM (#18499045)
except start-up cost

Which is, well, hugely significant when you think about it.

Re:NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', ... by bradleyjg on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:38PM (#18499791)
Even if you could afford to run enough ferries to make a dent, which you can’t, they simply don’t have the bandwidth.

Some people tried to make the math work for the L shutdown and even if you had a line of ferries just following each other as close as safely possible it wouldn’t be nearly enough. Subways are incredibly efficient at moving large numbers of people.

Re:NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', ... by CydeWeys on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:11PM (#18499407)
Cities should have a planning timeframe for infrastructure improvements with a horizon longer than a couple years.
Re:NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', ... by ricardoreis on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:02AM (#18501435)
Well, yeah. And they should probably be having discussions based on something beside snarky retorts and popcorn-throwing too, I guess.

But I guess those discussions will need to happen elsewhere.