Same Old Song and Dance










  1. Your $150,000 guardrail just became $15m to install in 100 places.

    I'm guessing if you had a choice between, say, cutting service back 10% versus 15 million in guardrails, you'd go for the extra trains. Remember, you've already told us that you value a few minutes more than your life... remember getting on the train despite large clouds of acrid smoke coming from the tunnel?

    If there was limitless money I'm sure there would be guardrails, electronic crash detection systems, and hell, why not airbags? But there's not limitless money.

  2. There's just the neglect that led to us needing to spend $15M.

  3. Metro is worth its weight in courics.

  4. There is just another reason I take cabs everywhere in the city. Thank you expense account.

  5. And by "awesome" you mean "small government theories put into practice." Yay for conservatism in action. Who needs big government regulating every single stinking guard rail? Today it's guard rails. Tomorrow maybe we'll lose another bridge. Or water main.

  6. You think the Metro is bad? At least it's not London, where they would charge more for shittier trains with no air-conditioning that run on time 10% of the time.

    See -> http://whyihatelondon.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-tube/