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**valentinesdayyy** · 07-09-2012, 09:46 PM

You do realize that the subways were originally built by private companies who expected to make a profit on it, the Interborough Rapit Transit Company, and Brooklyn - Manhattan Transit Company (IRT and BMT). The city then decided it wanted to take them over, and build third system, the Indepent Rapid Transit (IND) as subsidized competition to put them out of business.

So originally they were self supporting until the gov't screwed with them.

It's strange how you're quick to criticize anything that you perceive (politically?) to be ripping off the public, yet you are silent about the companies in this thread and others. Do you think these people have been "sucking off the public nipple?"

Show me how any transportation system is really self-supporting.

By your thinking, mass transit in NYC is a failure, because it isn't profitable. But would the city be profitable without it?

Let's not build anything unless it can operate as a business. Except the financial sector of course. When it fails, business rules no longer apply, and it can be subsidized.

Still more narrow thinking from the Party of No.

07-09-2012, 09:46 PM	#44
valentinesdayyy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	You do realize that the subways were originally built by private companies who expected to make a profit on it, the Interborough Rapit Transit Company, and Brooklyn - Manhattan Transit Company (IRT and BMT). The city then decided it wanted to take them over, and build third system, the Indepent Rapid Transit (IND) as subsidized competition to put them out of business. So originally they were self supporting until the gov't screwed with them. It's strange how you're quick to criticize anything that you perceive (politically?) to be ripping off the public, yet you are silent about the companies in this thread and others. Do you think these people have been "sucking off the public nipple?" Show me how any transportation system is really self-supporting. By your thinking, mass transit in NYC is a failure, because it isn't profitable. But would the city be profitable without it? Let's not build anything unless it can operate as a business. Except the financial sector of course. When it fails, business rules no longer apply, and it can be subsidized. Still more narrow thinking from the Party of No.
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