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queensnyatty t1_iuz3tus wrote

I don’t want to lose the subways but how about the MTA learns to spend what they already get responsibly before getting more. How far over original budget is east side access? (And how many years late?)

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TeamMisha t1_iuzkb27 wrote

Zeldin has no idea how to run the MTA he'd sooner just cut more funding and hobble the agency then try to illicit more meaningful reforms. I mean Hochul probably has no idea either in how to reform it but at least she walks hand in hand with Janno Lieber lol

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Status_Fox_1474 t1_iv0ha5o wrote

Or, since the Governor has 4 seats to fill the MTA's board, he can absolutely fill it with people who want to destroy it.

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Grass8989 t1_iuzjf0y wrote

They just need a little more. They’re super serious that it’ll be spent efficiently this time!

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Gu_Ming t1_iuzqece wrote

To be fair, everywhere public transport projects run over budget and late on deadline. The more you add hoops to jump through for that budget, the more that delays the construction and inflate the budget further.

There is real conundrum between efficiency and monitoring.

After the projects are completed and people start enjoying them and they start generating revenues, the delays and overbudget get forgotten easily.

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queensnyatty t1_iv0jpt8 wrote

No transit project anywhere in the world in the last two decades has as bad a record as bad as east side access. The MTA is literally the worst.

The Elizabeth line, for example, had its problems but not even at the same order of magnitude as east side access. That was a much more ambitious project too.

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