Amazon is looking for a second HQ. Why not, Pittsburgh? (Philadelphia: utilities, maintenance)

[Goodjules]

Originally Posted by krogerDisco

No, it's based in Silicon Valley, more precisely, San Jose.

Thanks for the info! They do have big presence in Seattle, or at least they did last time I visited.

[captainmidnight]

The NYC subway system is amazing to me just because of its vast scale and so many stations. I've taken the C and E trains a few times when I have been there for work and I never checked a schedule. Just went to the nearest stop and they came every 4-5 minutes. Granted these were weekdays and during daytime/early evening but still. I never experienced issues but I know people will rely on the subway every day and they hate it and the MTA.

With the T here it seems like I am always checking the schedule or TrueTime system because I don't know if they are during the time of day where they come every 7 minutes or 27 minutes, especially if I am taking one of the Blue/Red Line variants.

[captainmidnight]

If HQ2 comes here, Amazon totally needs to build these: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...ini-rainforest

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by captainmidnight

The NYC subway system is amazing to me just because of its vast scale and so many stations. I've taken the C and E trains a few times when I have been there for work and I never checked a schedule. Just went to the nearest stop and they came every 4-5 minutes. Granted these were weekdays and during daytime/early evening but still. I never experienced issues but I know people will rely on the subway every day and they hate it and the MTA.

With the T here it seems like I am always checking the schedule or TrueTime system because I don't know if they are during the time of day where they come every 7 minutes or 27 minutes, especially if I am taking one of the Blue/Red Line variants.

I grew up in the City and spent my early adulthood there. MTA is the most comprehensive system in the country, but my NY friends tell me it has become completely unreliable, as of late.

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by gladhands

I grew up in the City and spent my early adulthood there. MTA is the most comprehensive system in the country, but my NY friends tell me it has become completely unreliable, as of late.

Yes. Followed by unprintable obscenities directed at Andrew Cuomo.

[cjseliga]

Originally Posted by captainmidnight

If HQ2 comes here, Amazon totally needs to build these: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...ini-rainforest

Or they can invent something to get rid of all the clouds and pollution from the Midwest that hovers over Western PA from October to April!

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by gladhands

I grew up in the City and spent my early adulthood there. MTA is the most comprehensive system in the country, but my NY friends tell me it has become completely unreliable, as of late.

Is there any city in the country which has a fully-functional transit system right now? I've heard horrible complaints about NYC, San Francisco, DC, and to a lesser extent Philly in recent years. Maybe Boston and Chicago are doing comparably okay? Not really sure.

[RogersParkTransplant]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Is there any city in the country which has a fully-functional transit system right now? I've heard horrible complaints about NYC, San Francisco, DC, and to a lesser extent Philly in recent years. Maybe Boston and Chicago are doing comparably okay? Not really sure.

We still spend a lot of time back in Rogers Park, and Chicago is doing OK. I mean, public transportation is one of those things that's kind of easy to hate, like stoplights or traffic, so some amount of complaining is inevitable. But I'm aware of the ways in which the NYC system seems to have suffered over the past ten years, and Chicago doesn't seem to be dysfunctional in the same way.

We also lived in Boston/Cambridge for a long time and we hear more complaints from there, but part of that (I think) is that Boston is so darn expensive now that all our friends commute comparatively long distances, so interruptions in service are a bigger hassle. But again...the complaints seem consistent with what they were ten years ago, whereas my NYC people reflect what gladhands and others are saying, that it has been going downhill in a serious way.

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Is there any city in the country which has a fully-functional transit system right now? I've heard horrible complaints about NYC, San Francisco, DC, and to a lesser extent Philly in recent years. Maybe Boston and Chicago are doing comparably okay? Not really sure.

Chicago has been spending billions to modernize its system, and reliability has increased. Initially, locals wanted service expansions, but the city thought that would be better served with improvements, and it was right.

https://www.transportation.gov/tifia...e-line-project
Red and Purple Modernization Program

[Blackbeauty212]

I actually think Chicago has the most reliable and comprehensive transit in the nation right now.

Boston, NYC, Philly and DC are suffering greatly from crumbling infrastructures. Their transit systems are collapsing and fast. The NYC subway has trains derailing, breaking down in Tunnels trapping people on trains, bad signaling.

Amtrak has let what was once the envy of the rest of the nation, the Northeast Corridor, fall to become a deteriorating joke. The NEC especially between PHL and NYP is collapsing fast, its an unreliable headache. Constant breakdowns, delays... Too Hot the system buckles, too Cold the system buckles. And the Tunnels into NYP are on countdown until one of them collapses from age, they needed replaced Years ago, still no clear path as to when.

We all like to think the East Coast has a leg up when it comes to Transit, just by looking at the comprehensiveness of various systems. But the infrastructure of Transit on the East Coast is in a dire state currently. Its NOT GOOD.