• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Fun fact, the NYC metro moves more people daily than ALL flights in the entire continental US by a wide margin, I think it is close to twice the amount of people.

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      8 months ago

      3.5M vs 7.54M in my shithole. My shithole is Moscow btw.

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        8 months ago

        wow, didn’t know that, I had no idea Moscow has such a big metro system that is a lotttt of people

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      8 months ago

      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

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        8 months ago

        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.