so what ur saying is NYC metro area has no excuse--I agree!https://twitter.com/FARTRON/status/1005131088983937025 …
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Replying to @380kmh
it has the excuse of a lack of concentration of power and an inability to recoup funds from wealthy citizens to fund decent rails
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Replying to @FARTRON
more relevant than physical size--I don't know about how much Switzerland has concentrated power or high taxes on the wealthy, though
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i mean by being a sovereign nation the size of a metro area they are in control of the the taxation and spending of the state, while the new york metro area is subject to both albany and dc
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they are composed of 26 *very* autonomous cantons + much more direct democracy, frustrating any sort of concentrated power
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albany and dc are actively hostile toward the prospects of improving metro service within new york
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this is true--the phenomenal graft and waste in the MTA etc doesn't exactly discourage them tho
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