The problem is they never had any ideas about reducing the cost or speed of tunnel boring except to just use narrower tunnels, to ignore the cost of any externalities like soil variation, and to exclude from the final cost any amenities or features that were not strictly tunneling (stations, signage, egress,…

If they stripped it back to the initial aim, namely developing earth-boring technology take can churn out tunnels significantly faster than we can now, it’d probably do fine. I’m 100% behind burying critical infrastructure, be it electrical, network, utilities, etc all the way up to the interstates, especially within…

The problem is that Uber is sort of pissing in the wind in terms of economic efficiency.

The real underlying problem is the public transportation system in NYC was robbed of funding by NY state.  If the public transportation system does not work, then Ubers and taxi’s will be the next logical alternative.

Uber subsidizing every ride is going to screw us all in the end. When they finally reach their end game and the traditional taxi is dead Uber ride prices will go way up. None of this would matter if they would just fix the DAMN SUBWAY

Cabs fucking suck. I have real sympathy for folks that got caught up in the absurd medallion bubble. Clear their debt. Let them walk away. Force Uber to pay a living base wage, classify their drivers as employees, and limit the number of cars deployed. New York needs to drastically deincintivize driving through…