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Look at the tens of billions or in the case of LA, 120 billion that they are spending in mass transit expansion. If NY agreed to do the same, that would easily pay for complete system upgrades and multiple new lines.
The public in LA voted to approve this from a permanent one cent sales tax increase. Essentially New Yorkers have a lot to learn from West Coast cities.
The greater Los Angeles area once had an extensive interurban passenger rail system called the Pacific Electric. The last of the "red cars" ran in April 1961. It got its power from hydroelectric dams. See link.
NYC's daily subway and bus ridership of nearly 8 million dwarfs Los Angeles’s 1.2 million riders.
The LA train system is relatively new in comparison to NYC. Also the landscape of NYC is different than LA. NYC is 5 boroughs in 3 different pieces of land (Manhattan - Bronx - Brooklyn and Queens and Staten Island.) Then you add the workers of different states that work in NYC. (NJ, CT, PA, Upstate NY, and LI).
Except for connections with satellite towns/far away suburbs, LA has practically no subway service. Imagine Manhattan not having any subway stations between the Wall St and the 100th St, on either side of Manhattan, and you'd get an approximate image of LA subway coverage. LA subway within the city proper is being built, not renovated.
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