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Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Mar 12 18:32:04 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:39:19 2009. Again, with the vast majority of that station's passengers coming to that station for that stadium, as they mentioned, they have to have "something" there.Yes they do, so people know which stop to get off at. But they did not have to name it after the "Mets." The Mets would have been foolish to pay have paid the MTA, knowing that it would be named after them for free anyway. What the MTA should have done, was to threaten. Apparently they are very good at it when it comes to service. (State and Feds: Give us money or we will eliminate dozens of bus lines and cut weekend subway service.) Why couldn't they have threatened the Mets as well. "Pay for us to call it Mets - Willetts Point, ore we'll rename it "Willets Point - Stadium" or Willets Point - Ball Park." That would have been good enough so the passengers know where to get off. If the Mets refused, they could still have named it Mets - Willets Point anyway if they wanted to and just say they changed their mind due to public outcry, or they could have remained stubborn, which they also know how to be. |
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