Im not saying Staten Island cant be good, there simply isn’t the political will to improve anything. If their government and people got the heads out of the sand they would notice that there is demand for more rail infrastructure. Kinda like how there’s significant amounts of unmet rail demand in Queens and Brooklyn (hopefully the IBX helps the issue)
You’re saying it as if Staten Island is its own city. The truth is that they can’t control the resources to build new lines. That’s something that only the city and state can do, and neither are prioritizing it rn
Sure but consider that the MTA could be investing money toward places that would more appreciate it, Queenslink and the IBX are well received and suffer from very little resistance from local politicians. The MTA has almost no reason to invest in a hostile area that until relatively recently was extremely anti public transportation (the MTA operates on a decade long timeframe at a time).
I think people make the mistake that NIMBYs represent the population, when in reality they’re just a very vocal and obnoxious minority as is the case in most places. I feel like most people there would appreciate a direct line to either Brooklyn or Manhattan, ideally both. I don’t think the city is wrong per se in prioritizing the other boroughs as they have more people, but I still think that Staten Island shouldn’t be left out of the mix. It’s still a big part of the city.
Im not saying Staten Island cant be good, there simply isn’t the political will to improve anything. If their government and people got the heads out of the sand they would notice that there is demand for more rail infrastructure. Kinda like how there’s significant amounts of unmet rail demand in Queens and Brooklyn (hopefully the IBX helps the issue)
You’re saying it as if Staten Island is its own city. The truth is that they can’t control the resources to build new lines. That’s something that only the city and state can do, and neither are prioritizing it rn
Sure but consider that the MTA could be investing money toward places that would more appreciate it, Queenslink and the IBX are well received and suffer from very little resistance from local politicians. The MTA has almost no reason to invest in a hostile area that until relatively recently was extremely anti public transportation (the MTA operates on a decade long timeframe at a time).
I think people make the mistake that NIMBYs represent the population, when in reality they’re just a very vocal and obnoxious minority as is the case in most places. I feel like most people there would appreciate a direct line to either Brooklyn or Manhattan, ideally both. I don’t think the city is wrong per se in prioritizing the other boroughs as they have more people, but I still think that Staten Island shouldn’t be left out of the mix. It’s still a big part of the city.