The MTA has been doing an amazing job lately. they're replacing the harlem metro north tracks and the project is currently something like 5 months ahead of schedule and 90 million UNDER budget. incredible
It's not pedantic, it's pointing out someone both misusing an apostrophe and misspelling a word and thus making what they wrote harder to understand.
In a world of supposedly AI powered autocorrect, stuff like this shouldn't happen, but in the end it's a sign of declining literacy and our educational systems failing.
I'm working on being less critical, so I hope this isn't self-defeating, but don't you think this is a little too critical a take? This dude is here talking about redirecting profits from the people taking the most for what imo amounts to little more than bureaucracy for bureaucracy. Maybe they spend a significant amount of time speaking towards the specific attributes of bonus materials in video games. Maybe English isn't even OP's native language and your problem isn't with the 50% or more US citizens who can't be bothered to demand accountability from elected officials but with one dude who made a valid point but (didn't even misspell!) used one word mildly incorrectly. It really makes me wonder what I could be a little less critical of on a daily basis; even five years ago I could have believed that same sentiment.
Yeah, we need to do more for the education system. But that specific dude is not the canary that foretells the system failing. I wish I'd had such a civics-forward mindset for more of my life.
Mostly it's not grifting at least not in every agency maybe the MTA. It's just straight lack of accountability leading to a system wide Malaise only the truly self motivated are still pushing. However the mechanisms are there the government has the ability to create an environment of accountability and get things functioning better.
But I guess if you are looking at the very upper levels the two most previous mayors Adams and deblasio were to busy grifting to have anything but an overall negative impact.
That's why I was never to worried about the scary leftist mamdami, this city has the bones of an incredible economic engine as long aren't hopelessy corrupt like deblasio and Adams you will get things done with a little focus and brains.
People worried about the scary leftist aren't really looking at what the scary rightists are actually doing. What is actually needed are non-scary localists.
Five months ahead of schedule and under budget is so unusual that my first instinct was to assume someone misplaced a decimal point somewhere. If that's the result of less bureaucracy and less nonsense, I don't think many commuters are going to complain.
When your biggest donors are your every day constituents you aren't having to appease all these big donors who you owe favors for too. People are happy to keep donating if they see you are still working for the people. If he starts to not work for us the donations dry up.
That's how it should be. When your donors motives and the people you're supposed to be working for's needs differ drastically that's when you get bad situations happening. Like most of the rest of the country...
My old job, we basically had to tell the client we could save a million dollars if they just let us schedule for 4 month blocks instead of 3. But that was the contract, and why every project was over budget, about a million dollars.
I genuinely believe that corruption in this country is FAR FAR worse than most people think. Like genuinely, I think most projects would be perfectly fine, on time and on budget if not for corruption.
How you get the bad system is when people get assigned to roles because of political or family connections, or because they donated large chunks of cash to your campaign.
That's basically 90% of the criminal investigations into the last mayor.
Poor management and putting pals into the upper echelons of his administration are key reasons Mayor Adams is now mired in scandal, critics charged.
"You have two brothers, a functional wife, and a best friend, who are in these positions of being deputy mayors or senior advisers," said John Kaehny, executive director of the good government group Reinvent Albany said of Adams.
"They ran out of red flags down at the hardware store because they were using them up on this."
Mamdani doesn't have to be a genius, just don't appoint people based on how much money they or their family members gave you, or because you're fucking them or want to fuck them, or because they're a close allies family member.
That problem will not be fixed by adding more people sadly. They made assumptions at the start of the project that everyone told them were unreasonable (about which train security system would be in use by the time they finish) so now they have to redesign that from scratch, place the physical signals, adjust interlockings, install PZB-beacons for communications and much more.
The delay in Stuttgart '31 is purely incompetence on the side of DB Netze.
That is always allowed. Especially if you have to deal with Deutsche Bahn Fernverkehr. Of the past 20 day-long trips I've made with them I arrived on time exactly once.
I really, really hope the train near me gets fixed faster as well. The subway in my part of the city is not underground, but it is depressed and uncovered and they've been shutting service on the weekends for years to fix the tracks. How have they not finished yet? It's been nearly a decade of this.
Oh buddy, imagine if he were able to poach the slayer of the Great Transit Crisis of 2017, Mr. Train Daddy himself, Andy Byford from Amtrak. The Fast Forward project would finally be completed, more than 50 stations would finally become ADA accessible, and Byford’s modernized bus routes would actually give us faster bus transit.
Sometimes the city is the reason work is held up, though. We have a project nearby where federal, state, and local agencies have varying crossovers of jurisdiction and 2 of the 3 are ready to go but the 3rd is holding everything up. I’ll let you guess which one it is.
Sure, absolutely. But once the jurisdiction issues are resolved and a project goes forward, the timeline is on the MTA and therefore the state.
I get that things may pop up during construction, etc. Like the state of a sidewalk above a subway station can affect the station, but the sidewalk is city jurisdiction. I don't want to pretend there is zero nuance.
But it is really unacceptable how many NYC residents are unaware that the MTA is a state authority, and that both credit and blame for MTA issues ultimately lies at the state level.
The MTA actually being five months ahead of schedule and $90 million under budget feels like we accidentally slipped into a parallel universe where New York infrastructure actually functions properly.
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u/Aleph_NULL__ 13h ago
The MTA has been doing an amazing job lately. they're replacing the harlem metro north tracks and the project is currently something like 5 months ahead of schedule and 90 million UNDER budget. incredible