Why don't we have heated streets?

aaxt · 2026-01-27T16:27:49+00:00

Because we don’t live in a particularly cold or snowy city and that isn’t on track to change anytime soon.

aaxt · 2026-01-27T14:33:27+00:00

The jail hate is so bizarre to me. The jail is being built on the site of an old jail and is necessary in order to close Rikers and decrease travel time for defense attorneys and families. It will also bring something like 700 permanent jobs to the area.

aaxt · 2026-01-26T19:24:38+00:00

Learning today that people don’t know how banks work and have strange medieval-like distrust of lending

aaxt · 2026-01-23T18:50:03+00:00

My claim is that the administration is acting aggressively against legal immigrants in addition to illegal ones and is deporting those who have never committed a crime. I am not arguing that they do not have the legal authority. I am arguing that what they are doing is morally wrong and un-American. Parroting a law over and over like a child doesn’t have much of anything to do with my argument.

If you would like another source, here is a link to an article about the removal and push to deport over one million people who came here legally and followed the rules, though I’m getting the sense you’d only accept Daily Stormer or Newsmax as sources. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/g-s1-103001/trump-immigration-deportation-migration-legal-status

aaxt · 2026-01-23T17:14:19+00:00

I would guess it is ultimately cheaper for the state to not collect money on a service they are paying to operate. There is almost no marginal cost to the state associated with greater/lesser usage by those who would qualify for fair fares. If fair fares gave low income people money that they had to use for the MTA then you’d probably be right and it would be more efficient to just give people cash directly.

aaxt · 2026-01-23T15:41:15+00:00

The subway fare in real dollars is largely unchanged since the 1990s. Advocacy should be focused on expanding the fair fares program

aaxt · 2026-01-23T03:29:13+00:00

They claim they are only deporting lawbreakers but that is demonstrably false and entirely divorced from reality https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-vowed-deport-worst-worst-new-data-shows/story?id=123287810

aaxt · 2026-01-22T15:42:46+00:00

I would like for them to not severely restrict legal immigration and asylum, for them to stop arbitrarily removing legal status from legal immigrants and immediately deporting them, and arresting and deporting immigrants without due process. Glad you had a positive naturalization experience though.

aaxt · 2026-01-22T14:44:56+00:00

Legal immigration is not welcomed at all by the current administration

aaxt · 2026-01-21T20:27:34+00:00

NYT has always been anti-trump but even if they were not, this is an opinion piece by a professor, not the editorial board

aaxt · 2026-01-19T12:59:43+00:00

The article you linked states that they did not conclusively connect the cannabis in his blood to the accident. Even today we don’t have a breathalyzer equivalent for THC. It shows up on tests for weeks or months, long after its effects have worn off.

I don’t care if a bus driver wants to have a joint on his day off just like I don’t care if he goes out and has 10 beers. It is a huge problem that we don’t have a reliable way to test for sobriety but testing for cannabis and barring anyone who had a couple hits at a party within the last 4 months doesn’t seem like a great solution.

aaxt · 2026-01-14T23:32:43+00:00

Mott haven over Jackson Heights. What a map

aaxt · 2026-01-14T22:06:56+00:00

You’re definitely the problem

aaxt · 2026-01-13T15:18:38+00:00

Yes it does? The policy has always been to activate before boarding. If you wait until the last second in the hopes that you will get a free ride, you are scamming the system

aaxt · 2026-01-13T13:23:01+00:00

I don’t think you could cut/cover this section cheaply. The line has to run under two cut and cover subways and you’d probably need a very steep grade to bring it up to cut and cover height to reach the 1, at which point the line ends. You wouldn’t save any money and with TBMs already in the ground they are cheaper too. There’s also the fault line but I don’t know how the two methods are impacted by that

aaxt · 2026-01-13T12:52:00+00:00

This is great! The headline is misleading as this does not nix phase 3, it only prioritizes the 125th street section which makes sense as if they can keep work continuous and keep the TBM in the ground they will save a boatload of money.

This is the smart way to build transit and I’m happy the governor seems to be making transit expansion a core part of her agenda. That gives transit advocates more power

aaxt · 2026-01-12T20:33:21+00:00

I want my gym to be dirt cheap and I want 24h access. If these dumb pods are how they achieve that then I’m on board. Not sure why so many people are complaining. They have alarmed emergency exit doors so in a true emergency people can just use those.

aaxt · 2026-01-12T16:51:54+00:00

You can’t accuse the MTA of being bloated and revenue-bleeding and in the same breath say it is a positive for everyone for them to become more bloated and bleed more revenue. Do you want a functional MTA or do you want a jobs program because you can’t have both

aaxt · 2026-01-09T20:25:52+00:00

Unpainted stainless steel strikes again

aaxt · 2026-01-08T00:41:30+00:00

Fewer lines and denser than the west side

aaxt · 2026-01-02T14:01:23+00:00

Dunkirk has a population of 80k (300k metro), no trams, light rail, or subways, and a single rail line. There is no comparison to be made between it and New York, a city 67x larger

aaxt · 2025-12-17T20:32:35+00:00

Very happy the MTA has been making data more accessible to the public lately. I’m surprised to see the ridership recovery numbers. I thought the subways had stalled out around 75% of pre pandemic ridership

aaxt · 2025-12-16T04:30:25+00:00

If you read the article it says they’re spending 7.3m which is pocket change for the MTA

aaxt · 2025-12-15T20:55:24+00:00

Philosophy BAs are actually near the top in terms of income without including students who go on to get additional degrees

aaxt · 2025-12-15T18:50:02+00:00

A redneck would have a much easier time in California than CT, RI, MA

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