Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "The Secret Subway That Could Save New York" video.

  1. Forty years ago about one third of Liverpool's metro was cancelled by Thatcher. The city has amongst the oldest and historic railway infrastructure in the world. There is around 4 to 5 miles of tunnel and miles and miles of trackbed awaiting rails and trains. Nothing has been done. The city has suffered ever since. The people of Liverpool can empathise with the people in eastern NYC.
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  2.  @JJ-si4qh  Do you see Reds under the bed every night?
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  3.  @russellgxy2905  London is nowhere as bad as NYC.
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  4.  @jamesclint2338  It was coercion by stealth that public transport in the USA disappeared for that awful car culture that emerged, making US cities some of the most unappealing you can get. GM, Firestone, Ford, etc, bought up public transport then dismantled it. GM bought the LA tram system (seen in the Keystone Cops films) then got rid of it to promote cars. The corporations rule the USA, not the people.
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  5.  @techduck123  Reagan and Thatcher. Now we have Don Trump and Boris Trump.
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  6.  @jamesclint2338  Put congestion and emission zones in place, then the public transport will be used.
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  7. It is a matter of changing the planning and zoning laws to reduce car dependency. Also establish emissions and congestion zones like in London. Go into the centre with a car, you pay.
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  8.  @jamesclint2338  Your knowledge of economics is about zero, compounded by strange logic.
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  9.  @etbadaboum  The UK for 30 years went with the car culture, with out of town shopping malls, etc. A new town, Milton Keynes was designed completely around the car - but did incorporate cycle routes. It is still going on. But it is receding as environmental pressures take hold. Also people like high density and the vibrancy it brings. Social interaction.
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  10.  @jamesclint2338  wrote: "So by coercion. Funny. All these public transportation activists " LOL! It must be anti-American, a Commie plot.
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  11.  @jamesclint2338  That must be a poor attempt at wit.
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  12.  @darienmiller1032  London's underground dates from 1863. The second was Liverpool in 1886. NYC is 1904. 18 years after Liverpool and 41 years after London. NYC had the experience, and mistakes of London, Liverpool, etc, top fall back on.
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  13. Detroit being a car city, shunned any rail transport. They suffered. Same with Birmingham in England.
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  14.  @sebwilkins  None of the Liverpool Overhead was reused. There is a remaining half mile tunnel and underground station still intact. That's it.
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  15.  @TheB1M  Your Cockney accent keep surfacing.
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  16. Getting off a train, then out of the station, then on a bus, then doing the reverse, is not good interconnecting.
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  17.  @jamesclint2338  Complete nonsense! If the tram system was not viable then why did GM buy it up? They could have left it to crumble away. In fact the system was viable in that it aided in creating economic growth which does not show up on the 1700s style of balance sheets. But this sort of stuff will now be over your head.
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