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Originally Posted by dropdeaded209
why do new yorkers put up with this? if NYC just screamed ENOUGH and ground the city to a halt the entire U.S. economy would lurch to a stop and the powers that be would suddenly find solutions to these transit problems.
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Or the corporate powers that be simply shift operations to London, Tokyo, Dallas, or any other number of global corporate centers thereby diminishing NY's influence and QOL. Protests don't work for a reason.
The situation will change once it becomes an political/existential crisis the same way the city's finances were in the mid 1970s or the street crime situation in the early 1990s. Both are examples of an issue reaching critical mass then resulting in radical change. DeBlasio isn't motivated to care because it's not on his political bases' radar and besides he's got his second term. Cuomo is worried about getting through this governers race. We'll see if anyone is really focused on this come next year.