>>1707157>Yeah but how many people are traveling from there to there?So are you agreeing with me now? Commutes don't happen between two specific points that just happen to be on a connecting subway line, they happen between where people can afford to live, and where they have a job.
>The subway isn’t designed for people living in Queens working in the North Bronx.So what should those people do then? Walk?
> built around the lower half of manhattanFixed that for you, unless you can show me a single-seat ride between anywhere in queens and anywhere in upper manhattan or the west side above 42nd street.
Manhattan as a whole (including the entire borough all the way up to Marble Hill, not just the area below 60th street) comprises 58% of private sector jobs, this share has been dropping since the 1950s and the shift has accelerated since the 2008 crisis. Since the mid 2010s, 64% of all new job creation has taken place in the outer boroughs. That is to say, approximately half of commuters don't commute to Manhattan. This is based on pre-pandemic data, have you taken the subway lately? it's highly likely that the vast majority of daily commutes today are to jobs outside of the bottom half of Manhattan.
Reality doesn't care about your NUMTOT memes. Your cool and sophisticated urban fantasy LARP would be impossible without all those evil cagers who are too stupid to know how convenient the subway is for you personally.
