{"id":139845,"date":"2026-02-20T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139845\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:05:16","slug":"friday-video-how-many-better-billion-plans-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139845\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Video: How Many &#8216;Better Billion&#8217; Plans Are There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A better &#8220;Better Billion&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Like most everyone in town, <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/02\/02\/forget-free-buses-mayor-mamdani-should-instead-seek-audacious-subway-expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">we got all hot and bothered<\/a> after the Transit Costs Project put out a report arguing that the city and state should raise $1 billion per year over 40 years to fund a massive expansion of the subway system, bringing the joy (and economic development) of truly rapid transit to more neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, our friends at the Joint Transit Association argue that there&#8217;s an even better way to spend that money. Check out the group&#8217;s really well made video below or <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ovI1DKyOD3s?si=mIP-TfHBkQ5M1OQu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">by clicking here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you really want to nerd out on transit, The Transit Bandit offers yet another take on the Better Billion plan below <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QTUNdQsJWpI?si=PTfsQ2A0lWmwBodC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">or by clicking here<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A better &#8220;Better Billion&#8221;? Like most everyone in town, we got all hot and bothered after the Transit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-139845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}