Posted on 07/23/2018 1:47:33 PM PDT by conservative98
Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the cash-strapped MTA to waste as much as $30 million on his latest vanity project — retiling two city tunnels in the state’s blue-and-gold color scheme — instead of using the dough for desperately needed subway repairs, The Post has learned.
The boondoggle began soon after the taxpayer-funded agency ordered white tiles to reline the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens-Midtown tunnels after Superstorm Sandy, documents show.
The governor got wind of the plan — and insisted that the cash-strapped transit agency add stripes of blue and gold, thinking nothing of the additional $20 million to $30 million cost, according to sources and project documentation.
“The white tile had already been ordered, but he insisted that [the walls] be in the state colors,’’ a top construction executive told The Post.
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And they’ll vote the moron in again this fall.
Just like his corrupt old man that was governor for 10 years.
Cuomo is peeing away taxpayer dollars: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3673214/posts?page=9#9
Follow the money to see what kind of payoff this was at the taxpayers expense.
Same kind of waste as much of Porkulus.
That's from the press conference announcing this absurdity back in 2016 ... and more to come.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-cuomo-unveils-far-reaching-futuristic-plan-for-nyc/
So in summary stupid New Yorkers are focused on "the here and now" like how to provide for their families, but wise members of the elite are more focused on what the chattering classses 10 to 30 years from now say about our color palatte.
Adding insult to injury, he paid $30mm of our money to show New York’s colors, but the morons in the government must have neglected to specify the exact navy blue and gold colors for the tiles. So whoever provided the lowest bid on the contract must have then sourced the cheapest pigments possible, baby blue and bright green-yellow. The result, $30mm down the tube (literally) and the tunnel has nothing whatsoever to do with New York colors.
Last spring, new signs were installed by the entrances to the pool area of the park. The signs are on poles about five feet high, and they simply say "Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor". Each sign has a little flower garden planted around its base, and maintained by the park grounds staff.
To the best of my knowledge — and I've been going to that park since I was a child, though not as frequently as I go now — such signage has never been present before.
Mario Cuomo got his name cast into heavy bronze plaques that are placed next to the main door of every rest stop on the NYS Thruway, and recently the re-built Tappan Zee Bridge has been renamed the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. By Andrew, of course.
“____the re-built Tappan Zee Bridge has been renamed the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. By Andrew, of course. “
Now THAT makes me mad——I HATE bridges names after people-—they shouldbe named after an area in the region that they serve.
I DESPISE the Zakim Bridge. the Tobin Bridge,and the Moakley Bridge in Boston because of the names.
What’s next-—the renaming of The Brooklyn Bridge?
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“..Brooklyn Bombers’ Bridge..”
Gee, sounds like CA’s Governor Moonbeam and the Browndoggle Train to Nowhere.
All Heathen Liberals are Crooked.
On a side note, why does Tiger look 75 years old?
They keep voting for him.
“These construction workers had an added burden to deal with because every time I went through the tunnel, I would get out, and I would call them over and say, ‘You see this tile is crooked,’ ” Cuomo said.
Oldest trick in the book.
The contractor puts a couple of tiles in crooked, right near the entrance, at eye level, where they are sure to be seen.
The hope is that the person inspecting the work will point out those one or two tiles, and say, "Fix these two", and the rest get accepted without close inspection.
The proper response, as a manager, is to walk in, see the crooked tile, and say "This tile is an insult!", and then proceed to ding them on every little thing you can find.
But Cuomo will never figure that out. He is too smart for that.
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