Right, it's gonna take forever to do it, and anyone left over after a few decades is just grandfathered in at their established pay/benefits until they're pensioned off.

Fascinating how my NUMTOT posts about subway automation often provoke angry replies about presumed loss of union jobs (unlikely to actually occur) but rarely any discussion about how improving off-peak frequencies would be a boon to the whole working class.

Much larger constituency!

Shout out to Gucci

Not collecting fares on buses would obviously eliminate some expenses, but would still be a net fiscal drain. That's why the plan will need hundreds of millions of new state dollars!

But you can see why members of the public get confused when paragraphs like this get published.

The City's Checkbook 2.0 from @nyccomptroller.bsky.social doesn't give too much information about expenses, but it looks like the City passed along $15 million to NYCHA for Local Law 11 facade "repairs" just in FY2026. So we're talking about real money.