This is New York: pay $15 toll if you drive, get mugged or killed if you take the subway, go to jail if you defend yourself.
National Guard? The criminals still roam free outside the mass transport systems. They’ll get you when leaving those Guard protected zones. Where’s Bernhard Goetz when you need him?
So steady as she goes? Everything’s peachy?
I wonder how many of the remaining subway users are the poor and elderly living in dangerous urban areas, fearful every minute but trapped and unable to afford better or safer living.
Not excited to be climate change friendly by deciding not to drive their BMWs to commute.
new yorkers voted for a lawless shithole and they got a lawless shithole ... IOW, voters got what they voted for, so i don’t exactly see the problem ...
Now it sucks but it's still not that bad, hard to believe.
The point is that if you have somebody like Rudy Guliani or Nayib Bukele, you can clean up a place really quick. Broken windows theory is real.
Those workers who left New York during the pandemic and began working remotely... They are not coming back. I would think Hochul and Adams would have figured that out. Further, lax punishment of criminals - if indeed there is any punishment at all - has made the subways unsafe and more people are avoiding them.
They made it this way