and no, the private sector does everything better except this is one area where everybody says, well, this is a job for government. i mean, building subways, transportation, private sector isn t going to do that. and yet, people don t know here in new york city private companies built two out of the three subways for the first two. and what the government is doing and this light rail that biden is celebrating, it s people like it, trains are romantic. it seems like an efficient way to go but they re boondoggles and say so many people are going to ride them. so many are empty. we have a picture, i think, from the portland is that a coyote? that s a coyote. and they really look for isolation. they re empty most of the time. so you say that we should privatize our rail and in fact, i just dialed up in the united kingdom, you can go on one of
jobs, jobs, jobs, green jobs revolution. let me go back to what you were saying about the way transit funds are distributed. the way the law stands now, is that if your city population is less than 200,000, you can use federal dollars for operating costs. but if your population is bigger than 200,000, you can only use those federal funds for capital projects. in other words, building subways, expanding rail lines and things like that. you can t use it to pay transit workers. look at a city like chicago. let me explain the situation facing many large urban areas. the bus service is down 18%. rail operation is down 9%. more than 1,000 employees laid off. those numbers we re getting from the chicago tribune. in places where people most rely on transit and where the operation and the productivity of a city most relies on transit, you re getting squeezed because of state and local budgets. yeah.