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Re: VHB lands contract for environmental review of proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Thu Feb 7 13:34:28 2019, in response to Re: VHB lands contract for environmental review of proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector, posted by New Flyer #857 on Thu Feb 7 09:19:57 2019. It'll be slower than dirt, also slower than grandparents on Citibikes. Not only will it be a waste of money, it'll slow the traffic that's actually moving - all the trucks delivering your stuff, fixing your power-gas-internet-hvac and re-railing the streetcar after teens discover how easy it is to disrupt. It'll also block ambulances, especially after DiBlasio sets it up to impede car traffic.In a theoretical world, where this is designed and laid out concurrently with the roads AND the stops are far enough apart that it is faster than a bus, it would almost make sense. The missing part is that with today's kleptocracy, it'll cost thousands of millions not ten or twenty million, and for that much you could pay each rider twenty dollars per trip to stay home and do Hello Fresh. Yeah I'd rather ride a nice new streetcar rather spend $ on a grubby cab, but only in an imaginary world where it actually works, picks me up where I want to get on, is going when I want to go not only when the city thinks I deserve to have mobility, doesn't shut down when there's snow, or possibly maybe wind later that day, doesn't make 20 stops for everyone else to get on, doesn't have druggies and MS-13, 14, and 19 making life more interesting and doesn't cost so much that other things get silently cut. For the cost of one streetcar, you can convert about ten thousand Citibikes to electric-assist. Yes we have too much density of construction for car traffic to work. We also have too much density of corruption for the streetcar to work. |
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