Does that include the people who don’t pay? Because that number might still be way bigger than it already is. A not insignificant amount of people jump the turnstile. Almost no one pays for the busses. The “emergency door” opens when someone walks out with shit in their hand? Probably ten people slip in lol

[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Gotta love that one of the most powerful cities on earth with empty luxury apartments rising into a speculative sky above homeless and the precariously homed (one rent raise away from eviction) is so full of rich miserly conservatives that the everybody has to pay to use one of the most efficient collective forms of transport on the planet. It is like charging people to use an escalator, but even dumber because making mass transit free supercharges commerce by putting a couple extra bucks in the pocket of everyone who uses it (to inevitably spend at the coffee shop, or grocery store, or restaurant… economy go brrrr).

Jump those turnstiles fam, the rich are stealing so much from you that you could jump turnstiles all day like an Olympic hurtle jumper and it wouldn’t even begin to settle the score, at this point no amount of money can.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, while I wholeheartedly agree with you, there are routinely like 2-6 cops hiding and waiting for someone to jump and not pay the $2.90.

https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent-150-million-to-catch-farebeaters-who-cost-the-mta-104000

I was just hearing from someone who saw 8 cops run after some kid who jumped the turnstile. All heil mayor Landleech and his blue overtime army.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

$2.9/trip? What are you spending it on? Luxury golden cars with solid gold toilet that arrive every 30 seconds? It's less than 0.5$/trip here.

[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

$2.9/trip? What are you spending it on? Luxury golden cars with solid gold toilet that arrive every 30 seconds?

Not solid gold no, just crummy normal urinals dressed up in blue and full of prejudice, looking to do violence preferably with their gun, and coasting on that sweeeet overtime.

NYC is so fucked with conservative money and austerity politics, it makes me sad given how many progressive people live there.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nope. Dirty outdated train cars that show up every 7-15 min. If you’re lucky. This is New York. It wouldn’t be NYC without rampant corruption in local politics. So every update to the MTA comes with an absurd price tag so some front of the mayor gets filthy rich.