The NYC Subway Has Stopped Working... 

The amount of corruption in running this city makes me wonder how this city is still holding itself together so far ?!

$20 billion in operating alone? Many entire states don't have a budget that big. They need an audit.

Rural towns in Japan have more consistent public transportation than an entire American city.

Whoever said subway delays are proof that we are not paying enough taxes needs to look into how the MTA squandered $1 billion for cameras

Wants felony statistics to improve? STOP FUKIN RELEASING THEM!??

How is the subway not getting sued for not being handicap accessible?? Having an elevator several stops away from where you want to go is not ADA compliant. WTF New York?!!

NYC is an embarrassment.

We are being gaslit! The MTA is withholding services and blaming it on financial woes. It's draconian and the MTA should be investigated and held accountable. To blame the reduction of services on the congestion pricing pullback is obscene. Subway and train fares are through the roof and they never fix infrastructure. NYC has the most expensive subway system in the world and the MTA suits cry poor while summering in the Hamptons. Pathetic.

Its still hilarious to me that the moment NYC bought the subway from private hands in the 1930s/40s improvements pretty much stopped

I can smell piss in that elevator from watching from the comfort of my computer miles away.

Vote for incompetence... get incompetency

I live in Atlanta but visit NYC 2-3 times per year. The last time I used the subway in 2016, a visibly ill homeless man who had crapped in his pants, was sleeping in the subway car. The entire car smelled like a sewer - people walked in, took one sniff, and walked out. Since that day, my wife and I just use Uber. NYC used to be a beacon to the US; now, it exists as a warning. Local elections matter - be careful who you put into power.

I was. Born and raised in Brooklyn all my life of 59 years and worked for transit for 34 years and retired from it and I can tell you that what ever cash they say would help fix the subway is a lie😮MTA squanders what ever cash they get and nothing will get done.

We dont need modernization projects when you cant even maintain the system, we currently have

The Seoul transportation budget (including every type of transportation) is about 1.7b dollar. The entire city 2024 budget is 29b dollar. I can't even begin to understand what is going on in NYC.

Maybe if New York weren't spending so much on illegal immigrants, they could afford a better subway.

NYC crossed the point of no return. I feel bad for all the good people trapped there due to their incompetent bureaucrats.

I refuse to regularly use subways in NYC. Its not that I hate public transit, I use public transport in europe all the time. Its just that NYC transit is broken, scarry, smelly, and slow.

Nothing in NY is going to get better

I love how the politicians are blaming everything else for NYC’s problems and not admitting they are reason the city is in such bad shape.

The money was pocketed by officials. That money is gone.

5% tax, isn't going to make a 'dent' in the budget. Just more money for the politicians to squander.

It's really sad to see the current Administration in NYC's City Hall is destroying that city.

I live in China. Never saw a train delay in my life. Never say graffiti in subway stations. Never saw person not paying for the tickets.

isn't it amazing how there is enough tax money to give migrants free housing and free visa cards with money on it, but then their also isn't enough money for the subway infrastructure. NYC has their own brand of math, that fails at basic multiplication.

After 12 years, I’ve been out of the city for three weeks and I already feel renewed. If you’re thinking that if I just hang on, NYC will become better for working people, you’re dreaming.

They’re squandering the money. Even on weekends when they shut down lines for repairs or track maintenance, I rarely see the contractors doing any work.

A perfect example of how important who you vote for on the local level is.

I moved out of NY 20 years ago and never looked back. I am spending my retirement down in North Carolina.

Fun Fact: The Subways used to work fine long before congestion pricing was even an idea because people paid the fare and fare evaders got arrested. And crime prevention policies like "Stop and Frisk" kept the subways safer!

17 million for an elevator? Ya sure and 50,000 for a light bulb. O and a hundred grand for a door nob. I promise I'm not ripping you off. 🤪😅

It's striking to see how New York City's tax dollars are being utilized, alongside the recurring pattern of releasing repeat offenders. I wonder if NYC residents share the same concerns about this issue, or if it's a perspective more readily apparent to international observers like myself.

This stupid state should never have made congestion pricing a law in the first place

They got brand new elevators and people are already trashing them. No respect.

Politicians wasting money and breaking promises?!? Nooo....say it ain't so!

'Everyone who doesnt use the subway has to pay a tax to provide the subway for everyone who refuses to pay their fare.' New York sounds like a Monty Python skit sometimes.

I live in NYC and every 2yrs they raise the cost of buses/trains saying they need the money to upgrade transit system for better travel, but I’ve yet to see any improvements and the travel prices keeps going up. The buses/trains are worse than ever, nothing works, filth is outrageous and now crime on trains/buses are up substantially. So where has our billions gone from the raises they keep getting?? NYC is a ponze scheme at this point🤦🏽‍♀️

This is embarrassing, not even in my third world country we have something like this

Wait - they promote using public transportation over private vehicles but won't invest and maintain them properly? What a scam. The whole reason people use their own vehicles in most places is because public transportation is so bad. When I took the bus to work on days my car was in the shop, it took 30 minutes to go to work and 60 minutes to get home, the latter due to all the LA traffic the bus had to get thru b4 getting to my stop. Driving, it took 15 to 20 minutes both ways on surface streets alone. And the bus stop near my work was always dark and not in the best part of town. The bus only ran once every hour as well. Buses in my area used to run every 20 minutes when they weren't being promoted. WTH?!

Descending into a dystopian nightmare faster than I thought.

Man, I love your channel and the way you cover everything. You are the best! It’s so informational and I learned so much. If only the lawmakers and governors and other people would take the time to watch your channels, they would be able to figure things out or come up with better plans. Please don’t ever stop. You’re the best journalist New York has ever had. I look forward to your videos daily thank you again for all your time and effort that you put into making these videos. I appreciate you.

Man, Cash paints an "Escape From NY" kinda reality.

there wouldn't be so many homeless in the train system if we gave shelter to homeless citizens instead of illegals

I knew a third world immigrant who was an engineer for the subway. He made like $150k and I'm pretty sure he didn't have a real college degree. USA will go as NYC goes. RIP.

I came for the interesting real estate videos but I’m staying for the only honest look at the rapid decline of a once beloved city. Thanks for letting people see what is really going on.

Up until 4 years ago I came to NYC as a tourist once or twice a year. Paid lots of money for hotels, restaurants, shows, museums, etc. After witnessing two muggings and increased trash on the sidewalks, I decided that I would discontinue my visits. Probably will never go back. Too bad.

6:17 Government services are very specifically NOT businesses. Saying they aren’t self sustaining and thus would be shut down if it was a business is a ludicrous statement. Militaries, post offices, libraries, paramedics, schools, and countless other services would cease to exist with this logic. NYC has issues and one can debate the value of various services but this is not how you do it.

2-3 years ago, the city I live in, stopped cash on buses because of the 'Wu Flu'. Instead, the bus drivers were told "just let people on". Cash never came back and the swipe cards people use, often run out of 'credit'. At the same time, the government was/is building a light rail system. At least 2-4 people will get on a bus pretending "I didn't know I ran out of credit". 18 months ago, the government slashed bus routes and times due to financial losses. I can't even imagine how much money they lost in fare evasion but it's a hell of a lot. And now we have a transport system that even the 3rd World would be laughing at.

If you wanted to come to NYC, turn around and go back where you came. That's coming from New Yorker herself.

The NYPD budget is $6 billion, with pensions totaling $55 billion. When was the last time you observed an NYPD officer focused on their duties rather than on their phones? The last time I sought to file a police report after a hit-and-run, the officer was annoyed I asked for one, and told me to go to the precinct.

Congestion pricing money was never going to make to the subway

Transportation; "we need more money". Education; "we need more money". Crime; "we need more money". Beautification; "we need more money". Infrastructure; "we need more money". Pollution; "we need more money". Homelessness; "we need more money". And it goes on & on & on generation after generation.😮

When congestion pricing was catching wind, they said this thing is supposed to cause less cars into Manhattan. However, they also projected that it will make them so much money, so which means they use the projection as if cars still come in so they never really truly intended for cars not to come in anymore just so they can get the money.

This city is so cooked

This is crazy... NYC and London were the two major cities that other cities relied on when designing their own public transit system... How does this happen? NYC has a tourist revenue that exceeds most other huge cities... Where is all this money going? Why is there not a forensic audit done on this city to determine where all the taxpayers, tourists and other sources of revenue going? I have so many questions... UGH

Once again, Cash, unlike the MTA, you're right on the money. How can one expect a bucket to remain topped off if the holes aren't plugged up first?

I'd like to see the receipts on that 20 billion a year spent on the subway.

Public services are not supposed to be making money. Tax payers already paid for them their services should be available and affordable for everyone.

I ride it every day. It works exceptionally. Statistically, Crime is the lowest in 20 years. A system that carries 4 million a day safely. This photo is not even of a New York City Subway car. Baloney.

$20 Billion per year? They are using the subway expense as a slush fund. A whole bunch of stuff is being written off as subway expenses.

New York used to be a symbol of the prowess of the USA. Now it's a symbol for a much different, far worse reason. Your videos are real and demonstrate a full understandings of your topics. Keep it up, my friend.

Dont want anyone to travel, stay at home in your pods being surveilled in your smart city

The truck drivers in Newark are already saying they won't be delivering to Manhattan if they have to pay an extra $60 per day to deliver on top of the $25 for the turnpike to get to a bridge or tunnel into the city for $38 per trip. The varrazano bridge makes 1.6 million dollars per day!! That's not including all of the other bridges and tunnels around NYC that make almost as much. The MTA is so mismanaged that they need to look at how much is being spent on unnecessary projects and problems. The MTA needs to stop fair evasion and fix itself before asking everyone else to pay more.

Never been to NYC but I cant stop watching these videos 😅

Two US states that are deplorable dumps 1: California 2: New York

The city has some of the highest taxes of one of the richest populations in the world. Why do they need more ways to collect money? Why isn't there enough budget for important things like public transit? Furthermore, the public education system sucks. So where is all the money going?

What I don’t understand is this in other countries of the world the trains are clean cheep and well maintained and well guarded why is this damned train expensive dirty and unreliable

Yeah yeah yeah. Compare the cost of subway maintenance to road maintenance, divide that by the number of passenger miles traveled, and tell me which one is the bad deal. You know what else doesn’t generate enough tax revenue to pay for its own infrastructure maintenance? Single family homes development. So really, who is subsidizing who here? Which way is that wealth redistribution really going?

the MTA would not be in such a mess if they did not try to rob their own pension program hoping they would get away with it instead of being forced to put the funding back

London going the same way, over taxing leads to people not visiitng the city and that mean places will close until there is nothing left.

What was once a shining star of a city in America has become a dumpster fire.

Tax the people who don't use a service to fund the service. How stupid.

The problem is this politicians act as if they run the subway, and they’re not competent as logistics managers.

See the city employees abusing the system,,working overtime,,doing nothing,,bus drivers allowing people to ride for free. This city makes money but there is no coordination

I used to do public and private facade renovations in NYC and NJ for a non union company. The reason our public projects cost more than double than private in NJ is for the following reasons: 1. NYC sets the hourly wages per task on public jobs. Lets say you are working on pointer cleaner caulker work and bricklaying. In a non public job you could pay $35-40 an hour for a skilled worker. When I was there, in public work you need to pay about $75 an hour for PCC and $90 for bricklayer. 2: The New York government is very slow to approve change orders. Lets say your job is to replace brick and then you find rusty steel behind it. In private work you put together a quote and you will be working on the change order usually by the end of the week. On public jobs you need to stop for weeks or sometimes months while being forced to maintain your scaffolding, sidewalk shed, employ a site safety manager or coordinator who get paid $150,000 to $350,000 a year, and keep a foreman there with an occasional small crew to deal with small issues. In NJ you don't have a law for site safety manager/coordinator. 3. Permit approvals. In NJ you just need to bring the plans and maybe an additional 2 forms. They ask a small permit fee and it's approved within a week. Anyone can go in and apply for a permit in NJ. In NYC you need to hire an expeditor who is someone legally allowed to apply for permits. They ask you to fill out dozens of forms including noise mitigation, dust mitigation, site safety plan, evacuation map, etc etc. It typically takes 6 weeks to 3 months to get a permit because the expeditors are so backed up with all this paperwork. 4: Trainings: in NJ workers need 10 hour Osha training and supervisors need 30 hours osha training and you are good to go. These cards never expire. In NYC you needed 96 hours of training for scaffold workers. All of these trainings needed renewal after 3,4,5 years or else you get hit by huge fines. And you needed a printed record and employees carrying their training cards at all times. Its a task to manage all of that and to pay for all of the trainings. Maybe 2-3k ust to train up a new hire. And the only useful information came from the scaffolding class. 5: Insurance: I don't know insurance costs in NJ but in NY they passed a recent law which effectively meant our subcontractors and us needed to pay $200,000 a year for insurance for their crew. It didnt matter if you had only a small crew on 1 job or many men on many jobs, that is the additional cost. My undertanding is this law was lobbied under the guise of protecting workers but was just pushed by unions and big contractors to knock out the small companies who were competing against them. 6: injuries/insurance costs. In NYC it is the only place I'm aware of where the employer is 100% liable for any injury and where the payouts are that high. Meaning your worker can show up high to work and then swan dive off the roof and the employer needs to pay all the salary and raises they would have earned for the rest of the life to the family. In most states if an employee is being negligent then the cost of an injury is usually split. This makes insurance crazy expensive in NYC but it does help workers.

The insane amount of money they already have isn't being used in the right places to maintain and improve services! Why should they deserve more money if they can't utilize the money they already have effectively! Glad New Yorkers are finally saying no more wasting our money figure it out with what you got👏

6:50 Guy who pays even though door is wide open deserves attention

I had a buddy of mine in the fbi in the early 2010s reviewing a case where the mta were complaining they were losing money at the same time they spent over 500k on renovated bathroom. The bathroom wasn’t even in the subway. I know the mtA needs modernization but they’re corrupt. Go figure.

The social contract has been irretrievably broken.

How can anyone afford more taxes when the average cost of living is already so high?

The driving tax is just crazy.. people can't afford living as it is. now you gotta pay too use the road

NYC is DOOMED ! DA Alvin Bragg has greased the skids as the quality of life for the people of the City slides even further downward

The pure energy and exuberance that you project in your reporting,.... is TOTALLY PURE NYC....It actually sings an element of pure HOPE behind the story you are compelled to herald. ☘️

Here’s an idea - PAY YOUR FARE.

You should look into the contractors and the heads of the MTA and how much money they make and how incompetent they are when it comes to getting work done. But not when it comes to saying they need more money. Corruption is at the top.

The "REAL NEWS VOICE " of New York!

Maybe if they stop paying for foreigners

New York politicians most important priority is themselves. Second is blaming others. Third is taking all the middle class money while forcing them out.

Hey Cash, love your channel. I was born and raised in NYC. This is what people forget. Before the pandemic, there was a very high concentration of super high net worth people living in NYC. After the pandemic many of them left forever. Those were the people actually paying for all of the programs, transit, etc, in NYC. They paid so much in taxes that you will never be able to cover things otherwise. There will never be enough normal people living in NYC to make up this shortfall. This is why NYC is failing.

We left in early 2021. Saw the writing on the wall. Don’t miss it.

I've seen so much stuff riding the subway that my eyes can't unsee.

The real question is where the 20,000,000,000 dollars REALLY going? Someone's 💰 is so full, it's about to rip

Don’t respect it cause they don’t pay for it. Couldn’t have said it any better. You’re spot on

The governor made a tactical error sending in the national guard. At that point I believe Eric yelled "Checkmate" subway safety is the governor's responsibility.

Cash, your videos are the absolute best. After I left my home town of Memphis when I was 37 and New Orleans when I was 50 and moved deep into the Manchac Swamps on 2 acres, this behavior is now so foreign to me. Never lock the house nor the truck and sleep peacefully at night. Greg, Springfield, Louisiana.

wait no one pays for the subway? HOLY SHIT NYC has implemented universal free public transport THATS AMZING

Funding a service by taxing the very people who don't use that service... how does one justify that?

Wow, this vid was so comprehensive. As a fellow New Yorker, your opinion was valid bro. The MTA is so mismanaged and corrupt. Any extra money is literally being thrown into a burning fire.

I don't live in NYC, but I HATE driving in the inner city. I worked driving in my local inner city as support/delivery for 5 years and hated every minute of it.

Perhaps they could pay for it if they weren’t paying for all the migrants housing, food, medical and attorneys fees