Subway Diary

While I left work today, I made an informal list of ways to fix the MTA (because I’m tired of waiting). In no particular order:

1. Hire The Boring Company to drill several next generation cross-borough hyperloop lines.
2. Increase tolls on gasoline cars, remove tolls for all-electric cars.
3. Tax short-distance Uber rides.
4. Tax on all uninhabited investment properties.
5. Decrease ridership fees.
6. Free ridership for all citizens beneath the poverty line.
7. Freeze all aesthetic improvements until signals are modernized.
8. Eliminate multi-car trains; install long, single-car trains like you find in Toronto or Vienna.
9. Allow book vendors at subway stations.
10. Build electric trolley routes along the coasts of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan.
11. Tax luxury condos within x number of feet of subway stops, eliminate fees for any buildings powered entirely by green energy.
12. Increase the speeds at which trains are allowed to travel.
13. Open super-express line to JFK.