[TuringNYC]

>> The Elizabeth Line was unbelievably expensive to build; that's how the UK did it.

Fair. But what is also expensive is every single citizen taking $100 Uber rides to the airport, like in NYC. In NJ, the transit service has become so volatile and sporadic and opaque that people have reduced NJTransit use for Newark airport in favor of simply driving.

[direwolf20]

That cost doesn't show up on government books, so we can pretend it doesn't exist. The joys of decentral planning.

[philipallstar]

We don't have to pretend it doesn't exist. It actually doesn't cost the taxpayer anything.

[badc0ffee]

> But what is also expensive is every single citizen taking $100 Uber rides to the airport, like in NYC.

Last time I went to NYC I took the AirTrain to Jamaica station and then an express train to Penn. it took like 35 minutes total.

[matt-p]

Wrong, $100 Uber rides boost employment and the economy! (Just ignore the impacts of congestion, wasted time, road spending)