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> just think about it as a critical piece of making a city work

That's what the NYC MTA is... and they're $42 billion in debt. And they need to "borrow" another $23 billion from taxpayers to fund themselves for 2025-2030.

[0] https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/osdc/pdf/report-3-2025....

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Did that have anything to do with the cancellation of congestion pricing? I heard that was supposed to generate $16 billion through 2030 for the MTA.

It has to do with the fact that “[a]t $2.5 billion per mile, construction costs for the 1.8-mile Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway were 8 to 12 times more expensive than similar subway projects in Italy, Istanbul, Sweden, Paris, Berlin and Spain”[0], repeated for every activity they undertake.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/in-nyc-su...

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