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So you say with no evidence... I can find newspaper articles showing the Singapore MRT had 16 delays of a whopping 30 minutes or more in a single year, despite having a little under half the track length of the NYC subway.
Let me reiterate: delays of 30 minutes or more. Ok, NYC subway gets delays daily, I get it. But how often does it amount to 30 minutes or more?
Singapore is roughly the same size as Queens NY.
Ride the R train from Forest Hills to Queens Plaza every day for a week at 12 different times from 9am-5pm the do the same in Singapore on an equivalent line in terms of journey length. I'm telling you now that Singapore's will be more reliable.
The R train has been delayed EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. this week.
I don't ride the subway often, maybe a couple times a month.
Today I had the fortune of taking a trip through the city and I'm reminded of another reason why the NYC subways suck.
On a <30 min single train ride, I witnessed the following (from least to most offending):
-non-profit asking for donations
-express train I'm on moving extremely slowly through the local stops (I was not in a rush)
-panhandler begging for money
-homeless person pushing a shopping cart through the train (but not panhandling)
-a pack of 6 yutes performing a "show", blasting their annoying music, swinging from the handlebars nearly kicking me in the face (I'll never make the mistake of sitting in the middle of a train again)
it has nothing to do with the MTA itself, but the inhabitants of the city so I can't fault the MTA for this, but I don't see this in HK, SG, BJ, tokyo.
Move somewhere more homogenous and you won't have these issues
More transplant rhetoric.
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Move somewhere more homogenous and you won't have these issues
More transplant rhetoric.
son, i was born and raised in the area and have watched it go from **** back in the 80s/90s, to the good times in a late 90s/2000s, and then slowly back to ****ty now.
son, i was born and raised in the area and have watched it go from **** back in the 80s/90s, to the good times in a late 90s/2000s, and then slowly back to ****ty now.
i am considering moving though.
Just make sure you find somewhere homogenous, otherwise you will run into the same issues that you're commenting about
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