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Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Tue Jan 29 09:49:21 2008, in response to Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub, posted by Russ on Mon Jan 28 20:24:18 2008. Repeat after me, in the style of Ralph Kramden..."MTA, You made a big mistake! A REALLY BIG MISTAKE!!!" There was no real need for a megaproject like the Fulton Street Transit Center in the form of this boondoogle that the MTA tried to swindle the riders and general public. "The Downtown version of Grand Central", the agency's PR spin doctors were trying to sell was actually a real rip-off and sham at best. Besides, did anyone really believed that the Fulton Street Transit Center project was actually going to put any additional trackage and expanded platform space in the first place, within even that limited amount of real estate space??? No way, and a result of the *snafu and fubar* tactic the MTA engaged, there were plenty of businesses and offices that had to be shut and torn down to make room for this fiasco, thus losing property tax base revenue at that location. What the MTA should have done was simply fixed up the place, with repainting plus better passenger information and comfort amenities such as improved signage and lighting. I could see easily that the over-ambitious and over-driven MTA just may have deal with a revised project in this pie-in-the-sky Fulton Transit Center that will look more like, not as a five-course dinner with dessert, but as a doggie bag carrying unwanted leftovers. By the way, the one thing I did miss at the old Fulton Street/Broadway-Nassau Street station complex entrance, was the Chinese restaurant downstairs below at the mezzanine corridor, where I sometimes go there for lunch. I would order the General Tso's Chicken or Sesame Chicken with the side helping of Roast Pork Lo Mein Noodles with a Diet Snapple Lemon Iced Tea, and that filled up me for the rest of my day. -William A. Padron ["Bway...Nassau"] |
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