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Re:The NYC's MTA 20 Year Needs Assessment Reminds Us They Ca... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:49PM (#37814273)
> problem is that NYC doesn't control the MTA

New York voters are increasingly anti development. The only thing that protects it from going San Francisco is (a) Manhattan is joint to the other boroughs and (b) developers existing as a voting and lobbying constituency to counterbalance NIMBY homeowners and misguided tenants. Much of e.g. the Second Avenue subway’s delays were due to community roadblocks, not Albany.

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Re:The NYC's MTA 20 Year Needs Assessment Reminds Us They Ca... by mancerayder on Sunday October 08, 2023 @08:27PM (#37815662)
There's a lot of Community Board BS, where in my opinion it's just another symptom of how Small Government can not work well at scale (i.e. many small governments behaving as elected or appointed officials that only very narrow interests pay attention to).

I took the opportunity to rant broadly, but I want to ask how that impacted the 2nd Ave Subway project?

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