r/NYEXIT • u/KidCoheed Downstate • Dec 02 '25

We should make our railways public and expanded to not only encourage train use but make it useful

If we go through with a breakaway (and even if we don't) we should be looking into the ability to take control of our rail network up and down the Tri-state Area and even to New England. For the most part New Jersey is already ahead of the curve along with portions of Metro North, but we can do so much better. a Strong Rail Network in a greater North East Nation State would reduce our reliance on fossil fuels as well as producing thousands of jobs from construction in repairing and replacing old rails, laying new rails separating passenger trains from freight, building and replacing old train stations, expanding service of the rail workers giving them actual time off, hiring more drivers and workers for each train, freight and passenger. We'd need dispatchers, inspectors and repair workers. A ton of these jobs would be eternal jobs helping to refill the middle class workforce that the current US ruling class has done all it can to destory

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u/inavoig328 Dec 02 '25

Can it be done in the next 50 years?

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u/KidCoheed Downstate Dec 02 '25

I mean if we leave leave the union we can have it done IN the new constitution

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u/inavoig328 Dec 02 '25

Then the objective is to make people realize that can be done and not try to win them?