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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Feb 5 16:43:15 2020, in response to The reason NYC stopped building subways, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed Feb 5 15:54:35 2020. whilemostly accurate as far as it goes, the article fails to deal with the issues of choosing designs that are extra cost at ZERO advantage to theriders--starting withexcessively deep mining rather than shallow trench bothe tunnels and stations. As the Alon Levy article cited by an earlier poster make slear, the US just spendsmore for less. The defense department style of immensely overpricedjunkhas spread to the civillian sector. This is not economically sustainable. For historical comparsison, Robert Reich has pointed out that in the post-war boom, the US paid off the entirety of the accumulated Depression/WWII deficitdebt. That is not the current case. It would take severaldecades of both a DOD diet, and an Eisenhower era scale of income taxation. I do not expect to live long enough to see this accomplished muchasIdesire it, nor the completion of a full (even Manhattan) SecondAvenue Subway.Like unto several other major trends of post WWII political history, I see drasticmistakes compounded by entrenched injustices. Time and again, Congress has allowed a return to the predatory and fraudulent economic practices each resulting in major looting of the US Treasury and re-impoverishment of the economically disadvantaged. |
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