Comments on: Today’s Headlines

By: Angus Grieve-Smith

Angus Grieve-Smith — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:53:08 +0000

So what should India do? It should leapfrog us, not copy us. Just as India went from no phones to 250 million cellphones — skipping costly land lines and ending up with, in many ways, a better and cheaper phone system than we have — it should try the same with mass transit.

Hey, that guy’s got an interesting take on development and transportation; maybe he should write a – WTF? Tom Friedman wrote that?! I read it this morning and I’m still in shock that he wrote something that’s actually sensible.

By: Niccolo Macchiaveli

Niccolo Macchiaveli — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:48:44 +0000

The fare hearings are always an opportunity for a good venting of class resentment. Historically, the representatives of the commuters have been able to parlay fare increases (largely inevitable) into service expansions and other institutional promises and committments. Hopefully, some of that will be forthcoming in the next (when is the only issue) round of increases.

By: bicyclebelle

bicyclebelle — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:39:51 +0000

NYTimes blog is asking for comments on congestion pricing.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/motionless-in-london-on-congestion-charging-in-manhattan/index.html?hp

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:32:21 +0000

“You know, Gov. Spitzer should do better than Gov. Pataki.”

So he should go along with a big pension enhancement, cut fares with discounts, divert even more taxpayer funds away from transportation, and borrow even more?

Where is Russianoff moving when the MTA goes bankrupt? And if he wants to cancel the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access, and use the borrowed money for operating costs, he should say so.