Not to say there isn't tons of work to be done but "dingy looking" and ancient =/= unsafe and falling apart. Shit's still safer than driving a car, for example, and it's certainly falling apart less than the T in boston

[–] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Very true just giving my worthless outsider’s perspective I guess. Almost anything anyone does is safer than driving a car, isn’t it ?

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Theoretically, walking is more dangerous than driving per kilometer. But what this statistic ignores is that you do not walk the same distance that you drive. It also ignores the health benefits of exercise.

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now compare it to other countries not other US cities.

Lmao. Collapsing fucking empire with good PR.

[–] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's tons of work to be done to make it a modern system competitive with other nations in terms of technology, cleanliness, speed, etc., but it's not to the level of unsafe and falling apart. I'm just a little defensive because this is exactly how people who want to gut transit describe it, and its over-sensationalized.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Just because it's functional doesn't mean it's not a dilapidated shithole. There's so many trains and routes in the subway that are one bad day away from 6 months of shutdown for maintenance, including some critical bottlenecks between the outer boroughs and Manhattan, and the MTA would rather spend hundreds of millions on security theater.

I love living in a place where public transit is a legitimate option, but much like the bridge in Baltimore I'm just waiting to see the whole thing collapse under it's own weight while the rich fucks in charge just shrug their shoulders and inform us it'll be $20 billion into their pockets and 15 years to get 40% functionality back.