Yep, he was a nasty dude. Are your ancestors from Uganda?
No, but I was born in '72 and Amin was in power from '71-'79 so our timeline coincided. He just happened to be in the news when I was asking questions like that as kids tend to do.
That’s the city. Remove NYC, buffalo, the capital district and it’s a red state full of hillbillies. Most of NYS is the middle of nowhere.
What's wrong with free mass transit? Is there a better way to encourage people to use it rather than driving themselves?
Makes sense. I was born in USSR, so I never heard of him when I was a kid. Guess the communists portrayed him and Bokassa as the greatest men in Africa.
The transit org has no money and they are almost always in a hole. They are in charged of tunnels, bridges, buses and trains. I think the bus revenue generates around 500 million a year? Their transit system is very bloated and old. It's maintained by corrupted bidding and kickbacks. There is a giant unionized workforce. They want to use American engineers and construction but Americans are awful at managing public transportation. They just don't have the expertise. You can look at the barriers they built. The yellow barrier is 2000 each and each station spends about 100k on it. This should be a crime. https://pix11.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2024/03/subway-guard-rails.jpg?w=900
You really have no clue what that would do? The amount of shit that goes on mass transit as it is, is insane. Make it free and it would be an absolute shit show of crime, homelessness, and drug operations.
Yeah there is, it's better service in terms of things like frequency and cleanliness.
Last King of Scotland is an underrated movie btw.
If the NYC Subway system is already a hell hole, imagine if it's free.
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I think it is more or less normal in terms of recent years. There is also a heat wave going on. Other major cities in NY state didn't crack 30 percent.Only 5% of New Yorkers Voted for Mamdani
Less than 30% even bothered to vote.
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Less than 30% even bothered to vote.
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Ok, but that doesn't explain why you object to eliminating the charge, although I could imagine a better alternative to removing them altogether might be a special bus pass for the working poor and the unemployed.
Because removing the fee would reduce the revenue of the MTA which desperately needs it. Additionally, I feel that's good to make people pay for certain public services like transit because a minimum fee acts like a filter against anti-social people.
He was born in Uganda, he can't be president.
