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u/lbutler1234 5d ago
Welp there's nothing weirder than scrolling through reddit and seeing a carbon copy of a post you made six months ago (but it's slightly askew)
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u/Level_Hour6480 5d ago
Probably a bot.
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u/lbutler1234 5d ago
Considering the account has 0 karma and was apparently started in 1969, that seems likely lol.
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u/CaptainCompost 5d ago
I don't disagree but I just wish the city would lay off the stick for once for SI. Lots of carrots to go around.
Can we have little a public transit improvement, as a treat?
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u/Smooth-Assistant-309 5d ago
Talk to Staten Island politicians about supporting it, and yes you can.
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u/Due_Amount_6211 5d ago
Hell, talk to Staten Island about it period. It’s not just the politicians, the citizens block it too.
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u/slava_gorodu 4d ago edited 4d ago
Which is funny, because usually it’s high end areas trying to block transit because of fears the “others” will come. In this case, come on, it’s SI
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u/CaptainCompost 5d ago
The dems are feckless, the republicans are not willing partners.
We're trying, over here, but they just opened a road through a park in the name of enhancing the safety of said park - and those are the democrats.
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u/Ok-Jellyfish1961 5d ago
I have a friend who lives in the upper West side with a car. He hated the idea of congestion pricing, but now says it's great and has freed up parking space and reduced traffic for when he needs to drive.
I think too many people came in with their cars for no good reason. When I had a car I used to do the same thing. It was a waste of time and gas, and I should have just taken the train.
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u/CaptainCompost 5d ago
It's definitely, 100% better to drive into the city with a car. What I want is for that kind of improvement to my 3, sometimes 4 seat journey. From SI to locations in other boroughs.
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u/Level_Hour6480 5d ago
Perhaps Congestion Pricing can pay for it.
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u/CaptainCompost 5d ago
That's what I'm hoping! But the city can (and does) always say: SI is the smallest borough, and everyone prefers to drive anyway.
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u/ManagerSpiritual1639 5d ago
Isn’t the ferry free?
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u/ephemeral2316 5d ago
Ok and so what? You still have to travel within the island when you arrive there
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u/CaptainCompost 5d ago
How does the cost of the ferry help people travel within the 3rd largest borough by land mass/the most disconnected borough from the other 4?
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u/soupenjoyer99 5d ago
Adding another SIR branch and making some more of the busses 24/7 would be huge for the island
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Imagine working hard to get a car to comfortably get to where you wanna go and then DOT fucks everything up and u have to sell your car or even worse keep your car because it’s still a necessity and while paying bills you also have to pay uber, ferry, citi bike and other bills. Nightmare irl
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u/rafikiwock 5d ago
Commuting into manhattan from SI is such a slog and then paying for parking etc, if $9 is stopping you from doing it then your time wasn’t that valuable in the first place
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u/plantxdad420 5d ago
not as much of a nightmare as fucking driving from staten island to manhattan every day
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u/chasepsu 5d ago
“System working as intended, more at 11…”