NYC's congestion pricing plans highlight America's troubled history with trains
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- New York's new congestion pricing is set to go info effect in early 2024 as part of the push away from cars across the country. NBC's Sam Brock reports on how the controversy highlights the nation's many issues with trains.
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'A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation. '
How will you separate the races and ethnicities?
@@starventureyeah, and how will I make my neighbors jealous of me and the money I have??
@@DirkVaughan What neighbors? If you live far enough from them you don’t have them.
OH!! Good one! Who said that?
Driving cars or taking trains has nothing to do with whether a country is developed or not. India heavily uses its rail network does that make it "developed"
If we put even half as much effort into rebuilding our rail in North America as we do with building our roads we would have some very nice and useable rail systems. Cars are crazy expensive and take a TON of public money to operate, although we dont realize it (or don't want to admit it!). Rail systems are just a plain better use of our dollars; greater capacity to move people, more efficient, less impact on the environment. If you want to still drive, no problem, but make sure everyone has the reasonable and easy option of not driving, and people will use it.
We don’t realize (or don’t want to admit it) that the majority of this country does not have the population density to support major transit systems.
@spades9048 the irony being, that many cities have that low density because of Car-centred planning, aka urban sprawl! You are right though, it becomes a vicious cycle of becoming more and more car dependant the less density you have. I think we're starting to see many cities have begun to break that dependancy, infilling and providing more gentle density with housing, allowing easier public transport. As well, transit oriented developments are becoming much more popular, like they were 120 years ago!
have you looked at a map of US passenger rail from 100 years ago??? also look at picture of downtown cincinatti before they demolished it all to put down highways and stroads, which also displaced hundreds of thousands of people. You are speaking from a place of ignorance. Most of US cities are too dependent on cars and will spell disaster when population levels rise even further.@@spades9048
@@spades9048 You say the quiet part out loud. Intra-European flights are also cheaper than domestic flights in the USA for the same reason.
Mass transit infrastructure efficiency has been attacked for years between private and corporate and state ran sectors all divided and again I’m somebody who works for rail I work for Transit. One of my supervisors was old enough to be my dad age wise. Basically said these are the industries in the world that survived. These are the industries that last the pandemic happened and you still had a job not 11 happened you still had a job the recession in 2008 happened you still have a job so this really says it all.
$3 Billion or $6 Billion sound like a lot, but when you recognize that one single highway interchange under construction in the medium-sized city of Tulsa, Oklahoma has a price tag of $200 Million, and hundreds of those interchanges and thousands of freeway miles have been and continue to be built around America, $3 Billion doesn’t sound that wild.
one of the problems that kills me inside every day as a younger person is that I either have to be stuck driving these depressing, congested roads or make a crap load of money to afford living in cities with abundant public transport (closest to me is NYC). Definitely makes me consider just moving abroad because clearly the US does not care
The US cares a lot! Conservatives don’t care, they’re the ones killing transit projects left and right.
It's all about the money, causing chaos, controlling the citizens from inside the country. We all can fight this but they don't want that. Fight now before it's too late
NBC woke up and chose violence 😂
I’m glad people are realizing they need better transit 👏🏻
The state of public transit via rail today was engineered by the government to be that way. You thank the automotive lobby back in the 30's and 40's for that. America used to have the best passenger rail service until automotive companies were allowed to buy up a lot of the infrastructure and remove it. and the death blow was the creation of the interstate highway system and the subsidizing of air travel which induced demand for cars and air travel at the expense of rail travel.
Amtrak's notoriously bad record is due mostly to its reliance on privately owned track of freight carriers. Freight companies are supposed to prioritize passenger traffic, but they don't. America still has the best rail network...for freight though.
And leave it to Chris Christie when as governor of NJ over ten years ago, canceled the Hudson River expansion project, another typical example of shortsighted politics getting in the way of an economically sound project that could have been generating millions for both NY and NJ.
BS, if you went back in time and asked the average person why they were leaving the city and moving to the suburbs and buying a car, they would all tell you it was to get away from minorities.
Totally false. Auto manufacturers did not buy up railways and remove them. Why would a car company spend millions buying up rail infrastructure, and remove it when people were already switching to cars on their own? Passenger rail ended because freight railways were going bankrupt to meet their federal obligations to provide passenger service. Enter Amtrak which was created to remove the burden of unprofitable passenger routes from railways in the 1970’s
@@victoriavisscher8239:Los Angeles once had the largest streetcar (light rail in today's language) network in the world until GM bought up all the streetcar companies in the 40s and 50s with the intent of closing them down and crushing all of physical assets. You should really study history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
But to answer your question. Why would a car company buy up a bunch of streetcar lines? To remove competition and induce demand for your mode of transportation.
@@victoriavisscher8239 The only action ever taken by GM against the streetcars in LA is purely alleged. Supposedly, they hired blacks out of jail to intentionally start trouble on the streetcars to scare whites away from using it and make them move to the suburbs where cars were the only way to get around.
@@victoriavisscher8239 It seems to me that back when cars were becoming common on city streets, people were dying left and right since they were used to walking unimpeded. Public favor for private motor vehicles started to initially fall due to public outcry, and in response car companies did the best they could to flip the conversion, pushing to lobby for laws like jaywalking, pushing for more road infrastructure that led to previous tram/rail tracks being paved over (they still find much of it when resurfacing roads to this day), and having newer development cater to it. They wanted to push for what benefitted their industry, and they definitely got what they wanted and more.
As mentioned in the story they need to look at the overall needs of the traveler. Besides good train service you need to make sure there is good local transit at the beginning and end stations if you expect people to give up using cars. That is why trains in the northeast usually get good ridership. Besides good frequent service most stations have decent local bus or other service to get passengers to their final destination. Other than that keeping things clean and feeling safe while riding especially on subways or urban bus systems is critical.
Sadly, people in new york city that live in transit deserts have no choice but to drive. Not to mention how the mta continues to mismanage the money it gets from the government all the time. I don't drive in nyc but I hope it fails in court as it will lead to more traffic in northern Manhattan and the south bronx
I like going on the train
@@Atrail_Mckinley4786Let’s be real. If you can afford to drive a car in NYC, you’re privileged. Insurance alone is expensive.
Black folks
@Undecided0 This is not true. I know people that drive that make minimum wage. This whole idea of a person owing a car means they are rich is just false. The United States is a car centric country, and there are people that own cars that don't make a lot of money to get around
The reality is that not everyone who has to work in Manhattan can just take the train into Manhattan. In many cases, driving would be quicker for those who live in transit deserts. Congestion pricing will just increases traffic in areas outside the zone such as Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx. Not to mention costs of goods will go up since people who do deliveries or mateniance workers will simply pass down the costs to the customer to offset costs. This simply isn't a good thing at all
Me, a european looking at our beautiful cities not destroyed by cars, moving between them on high speed rail and seeing how basically all americans are forced to drive
yet another pompous european. Yes, there are good and bad traits to every country. hmmm let me think doesn't europe rely on the us for security?
Europe is a lot smaller than the United States.
@@kyshac81why does that matter? It’s not like you’re driving between Miami and Seattle everyday. Over half of trips in America are less than 3 miles long. We need to build cities more densely and start investing in public transportation like we did before. I don’t want to be forced to drive in a car with crazy drivers around me every time I get groceries or go to work or the doctor…
They are adding a tax without adding services. You need to meet the underlying need first.
Basically all? Do you know how many people commute by train/subway in the north east
Why did you just brush over the fact that the oil and auto lobbies and corporations dismantled the train infrastructure? So lame… 😂
The Great American Streetcar conspiracy
Need a train from FL to NY
There are two trains a day now between New York City and many Florida cities and towns as well as connecting bus service to many other spots in Florida.
@@johnchambers8528too slow!!!!!
Yes the existing trains between Florida and New York are relatively slow but due to the distance between major cities you most likely will never see high speed trains over this whole route. However the existing route still could be faster with some up grades and operational changes. Years ago the old Seaboard Cost Line railroad operated the existing Amtrak train routes faster. I live in the Philadelphia area and always was surprised how long it takes to get from Jacksonville to Miami. One of the trains leaves Philadelphia late in the afternoon and makes it to Jacksonville by the next morning but then takes almost all day to get to Miami. One of the changes Amtrak made was combining the Tampa and Miami trains together so instead of being separate trains or breaking the train into two trains in central Florida, you now have one train that goes into Tampa and then goes back to central Florida before continuing south to Miami. This adds several hours to your trip if you are going to the more southern Florida cities on the east coast of Florida. There also has been downgrades to some tracks or second tracks removed in some areas that also make the train rather slow. However the train still is a more comfortable ride than driving or being cramped into today’s airplane seats.
@@johnchambers8528 I live on the East Coast and The Acela should be ubiquitous on routes such as: San Diego-Palm Springs-Los Angeles- San Francisco-Sacramento-Oregon-Washington; Austin-Dallas-Houston-Little Rock; Miami-Orlando-Atlanta-Birmingham, and so forth. I have taken Japan’s bullet train myriad times, and the US is quite simply slow, to explore and implement nouns that would improve processes, that even Stevie Wonder could see.
@@GaryMitchellJr I agree that the Acela is a good example of how to get higher speed service over existing lines. However you must note that other than electrifying the line between New Haven, Ct. and Boston. Ma. The existing rail line always was designed for relatively fast passenger trains. The other routes you mentioned while good candidates for upgrades would require major improvements including electrification of the routes. So while possible it would cost a lot more to introduce this type of service and have to work with the freight railroads to agree to the track upgrades and electrification of the routes. One last note as good as Acela service is here in the northeast its speeds are compromised in many areas due to the older tracks and electric wires they have to deal with. There are only a few areas where the trains can achieve their higher designed speeds. And as you can see California is experiencing long delays in trying to build a true high speed rail line and at huge costs to finish it. However I still feel with key upgrades you can still get much better service using diesel powered trains and upgraded tracks like Brightline just completed in Florida.
They forgot almost everyone in the NY suburbs takes the train
Trains in the suburbs take you into the city. They do not take you around the suburbs.
@@smrk2452 In civilized countries, they do.
@@Apelles42069 I’ve always been frustrated by that. Some people want to live a more quiet lifestyle but also have access to resources. In America there’s a trade off.
@@smrk2452 It depends on the line in some cases there is a good amount of people going either from the city to a job or other attraction in the suburbs or a local suburban person traveling to another suburb on the line. In many cases there are suburban bus lines that also serve the local train station. Good train service with good bus connections make for additional traffic and revenue for the services. However it is important that the train and bus make good connections no one wants to wait long for either the train or bus to complete a trip.
@@smrk2452 They take you to the suburbs if you don’t need to walk very far from each station in the suburbs 😂
Cars in NYC are terrible and drivers behind the wheel are worst. Just reckless. Unless you're making deliveries or driving a cab, or ride-share, then all cars should be banned in NYC
Based
Based and Orangepilled
Reclaiming public spaces from cars and removing noise they make will turn NYC into a utopia.
NYC subway system is like a third world country when compared to other mega cities around the world. Government leadership need to spend tax dollar to improve US infrastructures.
I like that old world charm though. The train stations in Japan feel sterilized and more like a generic airport with no distinction or charm.
NYC is filled with third world people. Why shouldn’t it be like the third world?
That's literally what they're trying to do lol
Yet, NYC just passed Tokyo as the city with the worlds largest economy.
@seanthe100 and yet NYC has a $10B deficit and need to make cuts next year...
I don’t like cars. I live in NJ and work in NYC. I can’t wait for congestion pricing to get rid of cars
This is just another tax like all the cameras they have put up since covid. They don’t have money for trains but they had a lot of money for putting up all these bike lanes that few people use while reducing parking options and also housing illegals.
@@sakenu16Bike ridership is hitting new high every passing year, and installing bike infrastrcuture is incomparably cheaper than train or car infrastructure.
Maybe if they made people pay the fair to ride the subway?????
Dude really said there’s no transit in LA
He sure did
5:35 Its so wild to me that even news reporters dont even know that Los Angeles has a metro system
they also have no idea how much of California High Speed Rail has already been built
Stop sending money abroad and invest in infrastructure.
Impossible they love to send money overseas
💯💯💯
Good idea the military is a waste of money
What money was sent over seas?
2:15 the trains are late because of the Class 1 railway companies.
Especially the devil incarnate that is Norfolk Southern.
We need to Nationalize them like France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and Sweden
But you’ll cry when everything increases in price to cover these fees.
Is the woman that said "cars are dirty" inferring the subways are clean???
outside of a couple cities yeah, new york la and philly are the cities i’d consider having dirty metros
It's not going to work. People are just going to use bicycles or they're just going to hop the turntables like most New Yorkers.😂
People driving into Manhattan are insane
Yeah, but he’s right about how we get to train stations in the first place? Almost all of us who commute to NYC from the suburbs via train, still drive our cars to the train stations, where tons of cars just sit in a parking lot. Unless you’re within walking distance or have a bus route that prioritizes getting you there, it’s futile
I’m surprised they didn’t mention the recent announcement for Corridor ID funding. Essentially, the Federal Railroad Administration announced $500,000 for numerous rail corridors to further study the viability of future Amtrak service. For example, a new route between New York City and Scranton, PA will be receiving $500,000 to commence more in depth studies. It’s important to note that a part of this corridor has already been under construction to extend New Jersey Transit service to Andover, NJ (which will be NJT’s first modern station in rural Sussex County), as well as the fact that the entire right of way from NYC to Scranton is owned by a variety of government agencies, meaning that there are significantly less land disputes. So along with the big projects like high speed rail, there are also smaller but still significant expansions in other types of passenger rail.
On the subject of California High Speed Rail, there has been a lot of construction progress over the past few years. The corridor will blend with CalTrain between San Francisco and San Jose. To make this possible, a modernization program on behalf of CalTrain has seen nearly the entirety of the route be electrified. On top of this, electric train sets have already been tested and are expected to replace the current diesel fleet in the coming years. Looking elsewhere, a major structure known as the Cedar Viaduct was completed earlier this year, spanning over numerous roads. The authority is also starting the process to acquire train sets. So even though the project has taken awhile, there is still significant progress being made. The initial segment between Merced and Bakersfield is going to happen. The connections to San Fransisco and Los Angeles are difficult because they require expensive tunnel boring. Once the initial segment opens, however, there will be more concrete and tangible reason to complete the project as a whole. If you’ve made it to the end of this comment, then I appreciate you for your attention span and patience.
So have the TBMs been lined up? Once they are in the ground, the project ramps up.
@@michaelrmurphy2734For California? Not that I’m aware of. From what I heard at a Board of Directors meeting, the Authority wants to focus on completing the Central Valley Segment between Merced and Bakersfield before starting any major work elsewhere. Although this is the case, I do consider the project to be under construction from San Francisco and San Jose due to CalTrain’s modernization program.
I support congestion pricing, as a New Yorker.
Because you don’t have a car , ofcourse
I bet you also support high taxes and have a tax exemption
I do too. I don't care. Quality of life is more important to me. Not driving improves my life.
@@thetrainguy1 Quality of life? How do you feel when you board the train and see a mentally ill person who might cause havoc while you wait for your stop. Doesn’t your body tense up ? How is that even healthy?
@@izzyc1570 People who don't own cars actually subsidize others' car ownership. Your automobile infrastructure is a Ponzi scheme.
Good video, but it still falls short to explain how the shift to the automobile happened. Railways were heavily regulated and taxed, in many cases to their bankruptcy, while billions of taxpayer money was spent for roads.
And now most Americans live in the delusion that is has been always like this and it’s called “freedom” to have only one transport option available.
US public transit and Amtrak needs way more than that to be world-class quality. That amount sounds like alot but it’s a joke compared to how much is spent on highways and roads.
The reason trains are so bad is that they barely get any funding.
They did not mention the Texas Central project from Dallas to Houston. What up with that?
I'm not sure Amtrak is trying to make a public private partnership
Mass transit infrastructure efficiency has been attacked for years between private and corporate and state ran sectors all divided and again I’m somebody who works for rail I work for Transit. One of my supervisors was old enough to be my dad age wise. Basically said these are the industries in the world that survived. These are the industries that last the pandemic happened and you still had a job not 11 happened you still had a job the recession in 2008 happened you still have a job so this really says it all.
HSR numbers and picture for France and Spain are highly inaccurate, neither clip shows a high speed train from the claimed country, and both countries trains run at 300 km/h (187 mph) or faster
America is addicted to cars. It’s a horrible thing to be addicted to.
Don’t we get taxed enough…
0:22 he thought he was smart with that comment. people don’t understand economics. the idea of congestion pricing in itself is based on supply and demand. there’s a demand to drive on lower manhattan streets.
If you got it like that, or you really want to drive there so badly, then pay up
This is just another tax like all the cameras they have put up since covid. They don’t have money for trains but they had a lot of money for putting up all these bike lanes that few people use while reducing parking options and also housing illegals.
The metro north line from New haven to Grand central needs to be modernized. The tracks are over 100 years old in some places and it uses ancint electrical infrastructure, which is kneecapping Amtrak's NEC services.
I hope they don’t charge me for getting out that dumpster for good
"Americans drive half a light-year annually" 😂
Workers want to work from home but the companies want people back into the offices
New York Blades Runners will be the next start up business. 😂
Public transportation in NYC is overrun by homeless mentally sick people. Also anybody can rob you at anytime and will actually NOT get arrested if they didn't rob you for more than $900 they are out next day. Get people safe first NYC.
r u from nebraska u seem like ur from nebraska
This is why we will never see high speed railroad system like what Japan has.
Automobiles are terrible because they are so big and since there is only ever one person in the vehicle which is the driver there is no need for additional seats in the vehicle and for it to be so big just look at the tiny vehicles that the NYPD has which fits only the driver , the size of vehicles needs to be downsized.
You can do it America! Make us all proud.
That is not nearly enough for those two projects. The MBTA in my state of Massachusetts alone just announced how much they would need to fix all our subway lines even with all the repairs currently going on it’s estimated to cost 25 billion dollars. Imagine building a railrod from san fran to LA and another from Cali to Vegas 9 to 20 billion will not be enough
It is costly because some union bosses are filling up their coffers. If you go to private companies they would be a lot cheaper and done in half the time. Unions have been killing the American workforce for years look at the car industry!
Amtrak pockets money instead of putting back into the company. Plus government help over the decades. Nothing to show.
California High Speed Rail will be the fastest train outside of China and Japan
It’ll only be worth using once it’s linked to actual cities. Bakersfield to Merced is a joke of a route.
@@ganymedehedgehog371 Lol? Basically every great American city west of the Ohio river was founded on the railroad. A good public transit corridor = self-sustaining growth. You dingus.
@@Apelles42069 I mean gany is right. It won’t be particularly well used until it connects to San Francisco and LA. It will still be the fastest train outside of Asia, however.
I'm intrigued that no one mentions how massive the cars on the street have become. One double parked car (SUV) on my Manhattan street and no traffic can't pass. Good luck trying to buy a small car. They don't exist. There is a total lack of logic or community awareness.
Good transit isn’t immediately needed in cities for HSR to be built. There’s nothing stopping people from driving or taking a taxi/uber to a train station. Also Brightline offers Uber connections and shuttle service. Other HSR lines could follow suit.
I'll be just about dead if I'm lucky I'll live long enough to get on the California high speed rail.
Fun fact. The state of New york has a lower car ownership than that of the Netherlands. You wouldn't think that looking at how choked the city is with traffic though. It is insane to me that people CHOOSE TO DRIVE in NYC then be crybabies when they are told that there oversized SUV is less efficient than a subway. NYC should have done this a long time ago and I am glad they are doing this now. Is it perfect? No, but nothing is. This is a great step to a better future with out the scars of racists like Robert Moses.
I don’t mind having a congestion toll during rush hours however, if I go out for dinner with friends and don’t want to get hate crimed waiting an hour for a train (that isn’t under construction for once) I have to pay extra. I drive because late night travel on the train is not dependable nor is it safe. It’s already expensive to live here, and there has been plenty of increases by the MTA since I was a kid and I have seen no real positive change in service nor infrastructure. Complete bull
Then you have to pay to play or go out to eat closer to home.
our population density outside of major urban areas is quite low! Alot of our rail Network has been abandoned and turned into trails! But long distance rail travel is still necessary. But I still see cars as the better option to travel in most cases.
It will just cause congestion in upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs. How many businesses will suffer because of this? The middle income earned will begin to move out and you need them.
the middle income new yorker who definitely drives into lower manhattan 💀
$15B on trains, thanks, but that's meaningless when they spend $200B on roads every year
A small little section is a 119 miles haha
Raising the question. Not begging the question.
Nah. Not small little section. Not no public transit. Not also Miami. Not unless you live in New York or Washington and more. /
Another news story treating California High Speed Rail like it's just an idea on paper rather than a massive project already well under construction. It has more mileage of environmental clearance completed than Brightline West
Car should be banned in manhattans core simple
Based
Wow, you need to reduce driver numbers and repair infrastructure
If the Chinese and Russians can do high speed rail, why can't we? Even México has a train system. Like Bill Maher said, nothing ever moves in this impacted colon of a country.
Way too many cars
Congestion pricing is amazing
$15 is way too cheap, a hundred will be more appropriate 😅😅😅😅😅, since pandemic NYC is a no go, but just in case I have to go to midtown, a hundred toll will make sure i don't hit any traffic. 😅😅😅😅😅 absolutely no congestion
They should charge non native new yorkers next lol
They just need someone to build em some electric limo's that are about the size of golfcarts .
Public transit should be viewed as a utility that best serves the needs of its people, not a business that "needs to make a profit". People always talk about how PT is losing money whenever there's an argument about funding, but turn a blind eye on how expensive the roads are.
Also when the feds invest in infrastructure like this, it's not like the money vanishes into thin air, it's not wasted even if the project doesn't work out. The govt could spend a billion dollars to build something completely useless, but everybody that works on that project gets paid, buys things, etc, creating a small boost in the economy, improving people's lives, and the money will /eventually/ make it back as taxes indirectly.
It has been said that The Truth of a City's Aspirations are not found in its Visions but in the City's Budget and I believe that this philosophy can be extended to State & National Budgets as well. Since the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 created the IHS, American Governments at the Federal, State & Local levels have ploughed Trillions of Dollars into Building & Expanding Road infrastructure, dedicating valuable land towards the movement & storage of the private property of parked cars. Meanwhile, Rail Transit has be left to languish, with minimum investment, having to fight over scarce funding, while also being expected to be profitable, an expectation not extended to IHS, & forced to rely on century old infrastructure. As an example, for crossing the Hudson between NJ & Manhattan, the North River tunnel on the NEC was opened in 1910, with the PATH trains using the slightly older Uptown & Downtown Hudson Tubes of 1908 & 1909 respectively. Whereas road traffic has the Holland Tunnel (1927), the Lincoln Tunnel (1937, 1945, 1957) & the George Washington Bridge (1931, 1962).
5:28: Problem, not "issue."
Personal transportation is only for the rich you plebe.
Trains and public transit should be treated like water and electricity. Public transit is a public service and not a for-profit corporation
$300 extra a month for a car. Lol
Yes please
I wish that one day, the original Penn Station could be rebuilt
It was an awful loss but we should be excited for the recent changes they have been able to pull off. Obviously Moynihan Train Hall but also the new corridor under 33rd Street
Build More Trains! Reduce highway funding.
Bullet train of China runs with the speed of 360 km/hour
The la to San Francisco hsr needs to be completed first using the I5 and run the train right next to it to keep the cost down that way you can have a train that is profitable because of the two population centers then you can make branches off to the smaller cities to connect everyone else the way they are doing it now will cost too much and delays the opening significantly
They are legally not allowed too use the I-5 corridor California has a law requiring that high speed rail go through the central valley
@@IndustrialParrot2816 and that is the exact reason why it will never be profitable buying peoples land cost too much money which will never be recouped which also causes the build time to be extended even longer because they have to beg for the money to build it California is ran by idiots
The biggest thing needed is safety. You can’t build these routes and not get rid of all the crackheads at the stations.
3:34 oh wow, open by 2030. Ugh
Where i live theres no buses taxi or uber rife share or anything not even a train Rural you haven't a choice many home ahut ims with no transportation at all Hitch hike nearest amall city 45 minute drive one way 😢
Yo it's the transit guy!
lets build more trains
We need more people friendly > cars in our cities!
Hopefully I’ll be alive to see it😂
America's car Centric
San diego to san Francisco
90 years of tight Federal regulation of railroad rates and practices that prevented railroads from efficiently serving their customers and responding to the intense competition they faced. Back in the 80's though they got rid of some of the tax and regs and RR's did come back a bit. We should do it again, stop opressing them with regulation and lawsuits and they could prosper even more
Nah we should nationalize them like Switzerland and have Amtrak run freight and passenger and then they can have lower rates without the profit incentive and be more economical than trucking
I always hate it when reporters say it will remove x amount of cars off the road. It doesnt do that. People who always wanted a car, will buy one. Soon or later. All trains do is help people move from point a to point b in a restricted path. And also. Why do people want a line from CA to NVs Las Vegas? Im curious of the reasoning there.
The main reason is traffic jams on the interstate highway between Las Vegas and Los Angelas. On weekends and holiday times there can be major backups. The train will mainly run on the median area of the interstate and be electrified and run at relatively high speed. So when those frustrated drivers see the train speeding by while they wait in traffic they may try the train for their next trip between the cities. The only negative I see in the project is at present the train will not terminate in LA but makes you have to transfer to a local commuter train to get to LA.
Nationalize rail
NYC new delivery system comes into place with new regulation and fees. Thanks Governor.
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China is light years ahead of us
but when the ice age comes along, thats what its for.
People commute because they need to, depending on their location. This is just another lying money trap, syphoned through the dark pit of the MTA. Outer borrows will suffer more pollution from increased traffic. None of the money would be used to build a new bridge, or tunnels.
They deliberately created more congestion with dedicated bus lanes, bike lanes, restaurant side walks, closing down streets, to redirect you to pay for tolls, while blaming drivers. Tolls and fares were already increased
This is definitely not the best way to do it. The charge is way too much already for the way-too-inflated city. Rents are high, and yet the city is losing millions of dollars day by day. The MTA will have a good time with this (they will profit much more), but many Americans actually use the GW bridge. Why not build a road or tunnel through manhattan and straight into NJ? Maybe this will be better for the subway (faster projects and more safety). Watch the city becoming isolated. NYC is famous for its packed crowds, and now it’s becoming like the 1920s when people walked on roads. NYC gonna lose more when tourists gonna go to other cities. Also NJ is now suing NYC because they proceeded with the fare hike.
Congestion pricing is not the answer. Stop building bike lanes and direct that money for transit. Enough of bothering drivers already before we get fed up.
It's either have people on public transit & ebikes or destroy manhattan for myriad of car lanes (like it already did in America)
Gotta find revenue for the tens of thousands that are fleeing that cesspool.
so the rent is so high in new york because everyone is fleeing? have u ever taken an economics class?
Get off fox news
NYC made the roads narrower with seating in the midfle of some roads then claimed that the city is congested. The subways stink and are unsafe. NYC residents pay for subways even with our phone bills. The congestion pricing is just another tax for over taxxed New Yorkers.
This is just another tax like all the cameras they have put up since covid. They don’t have money for trains but they had a lot of money for putting up all these bike lanes that few people use while reducing parking options and also housing illegals.
ah yes the lower class new yorker, driving into lower manhattan for their working class job!
@@cassidy_c Your comment makes no sense. There are working class people in every borough.
@@abbe1abbe156 who take the subway into lower manhattan (the congestion pricing area)
I grew up using the NYC Transit system until I left to Ohio and now I drive everywhere. Even though driving can be annoying at times, I rather drive then take the subway.
Everyone ignores that part... people didn't stop taking the train because cars became accessible. They stoped taking the train because the train was no longer the least worst option for getting around.
@@personnesenki4521 that is a fact
@@savagestrong9734 Same thing happened with streetcars once buses became cheaper for transit companies to own and operate.
Why do our ypung ppl soeak like valley girls im sick of it