NYC transit, much of the time, is a relatively well-oiled machine and introducing a huge delay like that would make the city explode in anger.
Yeah, I don't think the guy you replied to is familiar with Manhattan at all, otherwise he wouldn't have said "a limited set of entry points".
I just counted 16 different subway lines entering Manhattan. And that's only counting "1" for each line the MTA map groups together. And that's not counting the PATH trains. Or all the trains that come into Penn Station. Or all the trains that come into Grand Central.
Then there are the bridges. Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburgh, 59th street, Triborough, George Washington. Probably a few smaller ones up in the Bronx that I'm forgetting.
Then there is the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, the Queens Midtown Tunnel. Others?
Oh, and there are countless ferries crossing the Hudson River and the East River. Plus the Staten Island Ferry.
And some heliports.
I've forgotten half of it, since I haven't lived there in 40+ years. And my names are probably obsolete. I know that one of those structures was renamed after Ed Koch, but probably nobody in NYC uses that name.
You can certainly enumerate them all if you tried hard enough. So, definitely "a limited set of entry points".
It would be more informative to say "a large and very busy set of entry points".
> I know that one of those structures was renamed after Ed Koch
Just in case it was bugging you: The 59th St bridge is officially the "Ed Koch Queensboro bridge," but totally correct that nobody calls it that. Sometimes you'll hear it called "Queensboro bridge," though.
They also keep trying to get everyone to call the Triborough bridge "RFK bridge" (they even officially renamed the bridge), but I think it'll be a cold day in hell before people actually start using that name.
Yeah, I don't think the guy you replied to is familiar with Manhattan at all, otherwise he wouldn't have said "a limited set of entry points".
I just counted 16 different subway lines entering Manhattan. And that's only counting "1" for each line the MTA map groups together. And that's not counting the PATH trains. Or all the trains that come into Penn Station. Or all the trains that come into Grand Central.
Then there are the bridges. Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburgh, 59th street, Triborough, George Washington. Probably a few smaller ones up in the Bronx that I'm forgetting.
Then there is the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, the Queens Midtown Tunnel. Others?
Oh, and there are countless ferries crossing the Hudson River and the East River. Plus the Staten Island Ferry.
And some heliports.
I've forgotten half of it, since I haven't lived there in 40+ years. And my names are probably obsolete. I know that one of those structures was renamed after Ed Koch, but probably nobody in NYC uses that name.
You can certainly enumerate them all if you tried hard enough. So, definitely "a limited set of entry points".
It would be more informative to say "a large and very busy set of entry points".