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Posted by MATHA531 on Thu Apr 19 10:03:54 2007, in response to Re: Whining......, posted by MATHA531 on Thu Apr 19 09:44:41 2007. ...and one other point...we believe the New York City subway system is the greatest most extensive subway system in the world yet there hasn't been a single new line opened since 1940 whereas in London in the last quarter of a century,they opened the Jubilee line, extended it very recently, extended the subway system to Heathrow Airport..Paris in the last couple of years opened a new line and I think I made the point once that no address in Paris is more than 150 yards from a metro station...somebody did point out in fairness that it was unfair to compare Paris to the City of New York as a whole but the entire Paris metro encompasses an area far larger than the central business district of Manhattan...it actually goes in many cases to where people actually live....I remember my parents telling me of a bond issue that was floated in the early 1950's to build the Utica Avenue and Nostrand Avenue extensions...I'm still waiting for the first shovel to be put into the ground.Now again let me say that all of this might be justified for a plethora of reasons but I choose to believe that part of the problem is the Manhattan centric outlook the city government has always maintained. What a mistake it was in 1898 to allow Manhattan to annex Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island....if that had not happened, the Dodgers might still be playing in Brooklyn! |
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