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Posted by Edwards! on Sat Jun 21 17:46:44 2008, in response to Re: Second Ave Alignment Change, posted by MainR3664 on Sat Jun 21 16:22:24 2008. Oh well...DC managed to get its lines built because it was a "National Pride thing"...[I know..I was in that city for a few years while Metrorail was being built..and You could see it in the air the PRIDE that came along with the subway].. Also..DC is WORSE than NY politically..yet they managed to build a 102 mile system in 30 years..while the MTA built 6...just makes you wonder..even during those lean times...MANY CITIES MANAGED TO BUILT RAIL LINES..while NYC fell through... A good reason for that,most of the money FOR the new routes went directly to the MTA during its FORMATION...with very little ACTUALLY GOING ON SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION...What they tried to pull off was "We'll built Some of it with fund we have...then let the FEDS build the rest..only we won't use ALL of the funding..we'll ho0ld back some,and cry broke.."! Then the MAYOR stepped in,and threw EVERYONE a WHAMMY...TAKE ANY AN ALL FUNDING FROM NEW ROUTES..TO COVER OPERATING AND FAREBOX.. That was a WTF moment.No SAS..NO REAL 63RDST..NO UTICA AVENUE..NO REAL ARCHER AVENUE...NO NOTHING. New York..spent the last 30 years trying to recover from that bullshit...meanwhile cities ALL OVER THE WORLD are opening subway and lightrail...even in our own back yard!take a look across the HUDSON one day to see the EXCELLENT LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM built by NJTRANSIT.] I hate politics... |
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