It used to be six cars; it's now eight cars, Brown Line, modern stations. It makes getting to and from work, the whole experience, much better, quicker. We have to invest in our mass transit system. There are other infrastructure needs. I'm telling you before the election what numero uno is for me. You need to know that. And of the people that take the masstransit, the Red Line is used by 40 percent of 'em and it's been the least invested in.
Yep. How does this happen? is the mass transit system's controlled by the state.
Yep. How does this happen? have benefited from these mass transit improvements.
It's all spread out. But we have mass transit . As horrible as New Jersey Transit is and Metro North is and Long Island Railroad is and the New York City subway system is, we have it.
about a fto second um and uh and it turned out that uh also get rid of mass transit all we have to do now is kind of
about a fto second um and uh and it turned out that uh more and mass transit is totally there so we can rip up all the god aul
One of the things I wanna get to -- you haven't asked, I'm just gonna go there. I am big into our investment in our mass transit system, okay. No other city outside of New York has more people use their mass transit to get to and from work. In a Fortune study, not Fortune, a study done by, I forgot who, that's bad. But people in Chicago have rated both our night life, our restaurants, our culture, and our mass transit system with the quality of life of what they love about the city.
Yep. How does this happen? I will say that from the mass transit system, it's not the city's fault, and the reason
Yep. How does this happen? We proposed a completely different approach to mass transit , a core piece of which was going to be congestion pricing.
America we need a great distributed Health Care System uh we need parks in open space neighborhood serving markets with fresh and nutritious food arts and culture multiple means of mass transit livelihood which is jobs and I deeply believe we need centers of spirituality and we need those because um we need to
And you can do great stuff with that pile of money. You probably have your own ideas about spending it on mass transit or clean energy research or whatever. What I talk to folks about is the idea of using it to reduce or eliminate existing taxes. So environmental tax reform -- revenue-neutral tax shift -- or some of the names that folks talk about. All right?
that access to opportunity and um but today it is poorly distributed and you can tell that by the the unequal distribution of our schools the unequal distributions of mass transit the unequal distribution of Health Care and the unequal distribution of outcomes such as this my dream actually is that
David Lieber: But these folks were responsible for getting the city's existing bike lane routes up and findable on Google Maps so it's not just -- Rahm Emanuel: Oh. David Lieber: maps of mass transit or maps of roads or cars. It's for bike lanes -- Rahm Emanuel: I just pointed to my policy guy. Well that's good. David Lieber: And Chicago, by the way, was the very first major city to have its bike maps on Google Maps. So we look forward to partnering with you --
It has much lower embodied energy, and it's a regenerative material. So we are an environmentally strong city, because we use mass transit .
And this is, again, another multinational corporation speaking up very clearly. And the question is, would you rather invest in a renewable grid and mass transit , or spend $100 billion on recovery this year, and probably again in three years, and probably again in seven years-- if not in New York, in Miami, in
it's gonna attract a work force that's sees a city that allows them to get to and from work and the quality of life that they want. David Lieber: Um. Rahm Emanuel: The bulk will use mass transit . That's what I did when I was both a Congressman and worked in the private sector. David Lieber: Um. Rahm Emanuel: There's no doubt that my kids when they grow up will probably bike. Their mother will yell at them to wear a helmet, okay. But I want that, that's two pieces,
recovery package a stimulus package that is about the future that builds the infrastructure and Anna ESU has been in the lead on this builds the infrastructure of America not just talking about roads and bridges and mass transit that's important but also Broadband Across America uh to rebuild the grid to make it a smart grid so that
Yep. How does this happen? Could be bonded, combined with an additional annual contribution the city would make and the state would make, could fund $50 billion in mass transit improvements,
Yep. How does this happen? they'll appreciate. Yeah. The closer you are to Manhattan, I think, from mass transit , that's where the greatest value is.
The one thing that we have here in New York, though, that I think does mitigate a little bit about that is that we have the outer boroughs. So as Brooklyn gentrifies and as Queens gentrifies and as the Bronx gentrifies, there are neighborhoods in those boroughs with good mass transit where you can live.
rid of 'em. I'm against that. I said that clearly, unambiguously. But a way to get some value out of them so we can invest in what I think is a key priority. One of the things I wanna get to -- you haven't asked, I'm just gonna go there. I am big into our investment in our mass transit system, okay. No other city outside of New York has more people use their mass transit to get to and from work. In a Fortune study, not Fortune, a study done by, I forgot who, that's bad. But people in Chicago have rated both
more people use their mass transit to get to and from work. In a Fortune study, not Fortune, a study done by, I forgot who, that's bad. But people in Chicago have rated both our night life, our restaurants, our culture, and our mass transit system with the quality of life of what they love about the city. David Lieber: Um-hum. Rahm Emanuel: I -- when I first got to Congress -- got the funding to expand the Brown Line.
But the public transportation that, that I, the, the story that, that, to me, that sort of s-stood out most of all for the general weirdness of Miami happened last year. And on a thing we call the People Mover, which is a thing that m-moves people around, it's like a little, mass transit thing in downtown Miami. What happened was two homeless guys, I believe they were homeless guys, were fishing in Biscayne Bay, which is bay right next to the city, and they caught a six-foot nurse shark.