The Metropolitan Transmission Authority

“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is now the Metropolitan Transmission Authority,” an MTA subway conductor told CBS News. “They are transporting this virus.” (The video with this statement is on Huffington Post.)

That’s been true for awhile, but the problem now is that thousands of homeless people have discovered the comforts of riding subways empty of commuters and other regular riders. The MTA says it has lost 95 percent of its riders but is still providing 25 percent of regular subway service for “essential workers.” However, those essential workers have to step around homeless people and their carts of belongings.

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So we have an intersection of two of the Antiplanner’s favorite issues: housing and transportation. Homelessness exists partly because urban planners have made housing expensive in order to discourage so-called sprawl. In doing so, they have also made commercial real estate expensive, so many business owners don’t have the income, after paying the rent, to pay their employees more than minimum wage.

People are dependent on mass transportation because urban planners want to discourage auto driving and so don’t make enough efforts to relieve traffic congestion. All of these things make society less resilient to unexpected events such as pandemics.

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About The Antiplanner

The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

One Response to The Metropolitan Transmission Authority

  1. LazyReader says:

    Urban planning is related to exacerbating the homeless crisis but not it’s start.
    Today the vast majority of people living on the street are there to support their habits….namely drugs and alcohol.
    And governments attempt to cure the concern with their own programs. When government who runs your city, have a political motivation to pander to people who’re dysfunctional, poorly behaved, engage in lewd or self destructive acts, their policies do nothing but foster more dysfunctionality, poor behavior and lewd acts and disavowing self respect and personal dignity.

    Once self respect and personal dignity are gone which can be obliterated quickly it takes years to build it back. Then your cities problems of the consequences of people who have zero dignity and self respect……only continue to get worse. The Government needs to get out of the “Charity” game or attach stipulations that encourage responsible behavior.

    But the governments who runs the cities of America, largely turned a blind eye to indecent behavior. Worse, encourage it. If you subsidize a culture of degeneracy and debasement, you make it attractive for more people. If you turn a blind eye to ejaculating on a train or shitting on the sidewalk or shooting up heroin on the streets, don’t be surprised if people start ejaculating on a train or shitting on sidewalks or shooting up or picking fights. YOU’RE GOING TO GET MORE OF IT.

    We cant subsidize homelessness, especially the kind we have now, the self inflicted byproduct of drug abuse, addiction, mental health and just plain immaturity.
    Your maturity is shaped by addictions, if you become a heavy drinker at 16, you’re gonna act like a 16 year old til you give up drinking……Emotional development is a constant variable, even in adulthood. Addiction freezes emotional development. Alcoholics always live in the past. Try talking to one.
    “THIS HAPPENED TO ME. THAT HAPPENED TO ME”…….Years and years ago. You cant subsidize an addict or homeless person; not without stipulations that make them uphold certain standards.

    You could solve the Drug War and the drug problem in America in a DAY! With simple Body Autonomy laws. Per your decision as a consenting and able minded adult you are granted a card ID like a drivers license surrendering all responsibility for your body to YOU. The govt cant arrest you for consuming narcotics as long as you don’t sell or distribute to any underage individuals or those without the ID themselves. In exchange for full autonomy to consume any drug you want without legal prosecution, you surrender any taxpayer funded obligation or entitlements to treat or care for you until you give it up ( and proven clean up to one year). No food stamps, no unemployment, no HUD assistance, no welfare. Once you’ve severed the real addiction; The Nanny State. This has two advantages; One without government safety net people will most likely think twice before starting to do drugs and contemplate what they’d rather have…..the right to shoot up or welfare. And two It detaches the burdened taxpayer from the consequences of junkie self destruction. Will there be casualties, Sure but the real tragedy is what the government and self professed experts have done is turn society into addicts of entitlement; the revolving door of perpetual self destruction.

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