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Posted by Michael549 on Thu Jan 22 12:36:01 2015, in response to Re: Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Thu Jan 22 10:50:35 2015. Just a few thoughts.The real political facts on the ground is simple. a) There is a real NIMBY response from Queens residents. It was there with the cancellation and de-funding by Queens Politicians and neighborhood folk for the Queens Super-Express segment. It was plain with the responses to Mayor G's plans to extend the N-train from Astoria to the LGA. There's evidence with the QueensWay proposal concerning the development of a park versus transit usage. Didn't Queens residents complain about the building the JFK Air-Train? Yes - They Did! The NIMBY response is REAL. b) There is the effort at creating at Willets Points a hotel - shopping center - convention - complex. Translation - MONEY. The plans for converting the Willets Point area has been in the works for the last few years - it is really not a surprise to anybody actually watching what's going on. c) Some of the rhetoric is appalling! Too many here describe the #7 train as if it were some over-crowded little row-boat pulled by two guys working the oars and then describe the N or Q trains as if they were Queen Mary sized luxury liners able to carry multiple millions! That has got to stop! d) There have been complaints that the MTA and the Port Authority simply can not build anything these days - on time - on budget - with the fewest hassles! On this forum and others there are hundreds of complaints about the Fulton Transit Center, South Ferry Re-Build, World Trade Center - PATH station, extending the PATH to Newark Airport, and on and on! Do I really need to mention the Second Avenue Subway? Or the opening of the #7 extension to the Jacob Javits Center? e) The real politic is simple - Gov. Cuomo picked the route with the least amount of NIMBY reaction, picked a location that would benefit his developer friends, that would be simpler to build in light of the other options (that have been discussed both for/against on forums like this for months), that could be built quickly but not by the MTA, and lastly solves a problem that many said needed to be solved - that still could be done with in his terms of office. Follow The MONEY! Mike |
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