MangoCon Is official!
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NY needs to do something to reinvent themselves. They need to look to Europe and build out a serious public transportation system. NY is too deep to go to the low tax systems that Texas or Florida do to inspire growth. They and California need to go European with high taxes and huge social services to make it work. They could do it, if they are smart about it. They need a LOT of rail and they need it to really work, unlike it is today. But the I90 corridor and the ST corridor are so dense and linear that they could, even with all the open space, pull off a European style structure out there if they were smart.
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If they did a better rail system in NY more people would travel into the City. I know if the train was more reliable I would take it to NYC instead of driving every time.
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@Minion-Queen said:
If they did a better rail system in NY more people would travel into the City. I know if the train was more reliable I would take it to NYC instead of driving every time.
My situation is different as Illinois is not as densly populated as the east coast, but that unreliability is exactly why I have to drive to St Louis and back every two weeks instead of taking a train.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Minion-Queen said:
If they did a better rail system in NY more people would travel into the City. I know if the train was more reliable I would take it to NYC instead of driving every time.
My situation is different as Illinois is not as densly populated as the east coast, but that unreliability is exactly why I have to drive to St Louis and back every two weeks instead of taking a train.
How long does that trip take you?
how many miles is it?
I'm guessing your hourly, are you getting paid overtime when you drive outside of work hours?I wonder if it could be economical for you to fly instead?
Statistically it's safer.
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Oh where I am is not densely populated at all (there are literally more cows than people in our county and like 3 surrounding).
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@Minion-Queen said:
Oh where I am is not densely populated at all (there are literally more cows than people in our county and like 3 surrounding).
I said east coast as a generalizaiton. not specifically upstate new york
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This one is for @JaredBusch
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@scottalanmiller said:
NY needs to do something to reinvent themselves. They need to look to Europe and build out a serious public transportation system. NY is too deep to go to the low tax systems that Texas or Florida do to inspire growth. They and California need to go European with high taxes and huge social services to make it work. They could do it, if they are smart about it. They need a LOT of rail and they need it to really work, unlike it is today. But the I90 corridor and the ST corridor are so dense and linear that they could, even with all the open space, pull off a European style structure out there if they were smart.
NY city should just become it's own state then the rest of us in upstate NY can quit paying for their turd shaped island. Taxes are high enough already. We just need to be smarter how we use them.
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Upstate NY has been trying to drop NYC for decades.
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@quicky2g said:
@scottalanmiller said:
NY needs to do something to reinvent themselves. They need to look to Europe and build out a serious public transportation system. NY is too deep to go to the low tax systems that Texas or Florida do to inspire growth. They and California need to go European with high taxes and huge social services to make it work. They could do it, if they are smart about it. They need a LOT of rail and they need it to really work, unlike it is today. But the I90 corridor and the ST corridor are so dense and linear that they could, even with all the open space, pull off a European style structure out there if they were smart.
NY city should just become it's own state then the rest of us in upstate NY can quit paying for their turd shaped island. Taxes are high enough already. We just need to be smarter how we use them.
I would love to see what the tax burden on upstate NY is compared to NYC. I've heard that upstate pays for NYC and I've heard the NYC pays for upstate in pretty much the same sentence before.
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Can we sign up yet, or are we waiting for the website?
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Waiting on the website..... yeah yeah I know
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@Minion-Queen said:
Waiting on the website..... yeah yeah I know
I need about 20 more hours in every dayWhere's an experimental physicist who's built a time machine? Why do I have a feeling we all feel the same way!?
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@travisdh1 said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Waiting on the website..... yeah yeah I know
I need about 20 more hours in every dayWhere's an experimental physicist who's built a time machine? Why do I have a feeling we all feel the same way!?
Double upvote.
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@travisdh1 said:
Where's an experimental physicist who's built a time machine? Why do I have a feeling we all feel the same way!?
If there was one anywhere it would be here on ML.
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@BRRABill said:
@travisdh1 said:
Where's an experimental physicist who's built a time machine? Why do I have a feeling we all feel the same way!?
If there was one anywhere it would be here on ML.
Better put on the time machine hat and get to work
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When do these tickets go on sale?
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@Danielle-Ralston also waiting
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My web developer had to have hand surgery...http://mangolassi.it/topic/7821/donut-destroyer-and-the-drone/2 . And I can't connect the purchasing piece myself.
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@Minion-Queen said:
My web developer had to have hand surgery...http://mangolassi.it/topic/7821/donut-destroyer-and-the-drone/2 . And I can't connect the purchasing piece myself.
Connecting pieces, like how they had to use rubber bands to connect the tips of his fingers back to the main part of his hands!
#shuddersinvoluntarily again
