ok but its not really fair to compare chambers st subway to the other ones, since chambers st hasn't even been operational since like the 30s. Most US subway stations are trash but thats still an unfair comparison
I don't know who told you that, but Chambers Street is a very active subway station that is still used every day. Hell, I used it just last week. There's a part of it that's closed down, but you can still see it from the J/Z platform during the week. The entire station looks like that, and it's in the Financial District of the richest city in the United States. Definitely not an unfair comparison.
Huh maybe it is just some platforms that are abandoned? I read an article that said it was abandoned in 1931. I guess it meant only that one side of the platform was abandoned.
Yeah, one of the platforms has been abandoned, but the entire station is a mess. And while this is definitely bad, even by NYC standards, it's not entirely out of the ordinary. The amount of "nice" subway stations I've been to in NYC I can count on one hand, while the majority are just slightly nicer versions of Chambers St.
and basically all nyc subway stations look like fucking caves lol ive been all over europe and never seen anything as bad as the mta stations. its not complicated either, the us just doesnt care about its working class.
Honestly not sure this is the play here in New York. I think NYC is unique amongst American cities in that without the subways, the entire city would fall apart. Nobody here owns a car, and everybody uses the subway to get to work/move around/do anything. Neglecting the city's infrastructure until it's privatized will just result in the city itself dying before anything could be privatized. Judging by how things are going right now, honestly might happen.
That's not at all what's happening with the NYC subway. The subway is in a bad state for 3 main reasons.
There were periods where it was doing well and they took extra cash flow from the subway to expand other MTA projects outside the city
It runs 24 hours so regular maintenance is incredibly difficult and has been for a very long time.
The MTA union has more complicated work rules than any other transit union in the world and uses 2x as many people to do the same repairs, maintenance work, train monitoring, ect, when compared to how things work in either China, Europe, other US cities and so on.
ok but its not really fair to compare chambers st subway to the other ones, since chambers st hasn't even been operational since like the 30s. Most US subway stations are trash but thats still an unfair comparison
I don't know who told you that, but Chambers Street is a very active subway station that is still used every day. Hell, I used it just last week. There's a part of it that's closed down, but you can still see it from the J/Z platform during the week. The entire station looks like that, and it's in the Financial District of the richest city in the United States. Definitely not an unfair comparison.
Lol more like the jizz platform
Huh maybe it is just some platforms that are abandoned? I read an article that said it was abandoned in 1931. I guess it meant only that one side of the platform was abandoned.
Yeah, one of the platforms has been abandoned, but the entire station is a mess. And while this is definitely bad, even by NYC standards, it's not entirely out of the ordinary. The amount of "nice" subway stations I've been to in NYC I can count on one hand, while the majority are just slightly nicer versions of Chambers St.
and basically all nyc subway stations look like fucking caves lol ive been all over europe and never seen anything as bad as the mta stations. its not complicated either, the us just doesnt care about its working class.
I love going to countries that have like 30 times less GDP per capita than NYC that have metro systems 30 times better than the MTA. :amerikkka:
Compared to NYC subway stations I’d eat off the floor of the worst European subway I’ve been in before i ate off the floor of the cleanest one in NYC
wow, and here I was thinking peckham station was bad
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Honestly not sure this is the play here in New York. I think NYC is unique amongst American cities in that without the subways, the entire city would fall apart. Nobody here owns a car, and everybody uses the subway to get to work/move around/do anything. Neglecting the city's infrastructure until it's privatized will just result in the city itself dying before anything could be privatized. Judging by how things are going right now, honestly might happen.
That's not at all what's happening with the NYC subway. The subway is in a bad state for 3 main reasons.
There were periods where it was doing well and they took extra cash flow from the subway to expand other MTA projects outside the city
It runs 24 hours so regular maintenance is incredibly difficult and has been for a very long time.
The MTA union has more complicated work rules than any other transit union in the world and uses 2x as many people to do the same repairs, maintenance work, train monitoring, ect, when compared to how things work in either China, Europe, other US cities and so on.
I stand corrected then.
I'm way more familiar with DC subways, which are actually decent, and they still don't hold a candle to those Chengdu photos.