Here's another: 
Posted on 12/12/2006 9:21:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
EW YORK (Reuters) - New York City must take aggressive action now to meet increased demand for energy, housing and transportation as America's largest city faces population growth of nearly 1 million over the next 25 years, officials said on Tuesday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the "New York 2030" planning campaign as the city expects an additional 200,000 residents by 2010 and as energy demand is seen outstripping the current supply by 2012.
The city, whose current record population of 8.2 million is expected to reach 9 million by 2030, driven by economic growth and immigration, is taking a hard look at the limitations of its current infrastructure, including parts of its power grid that date to the 1920s.
"Every major infrastructure system in our city will be more than a century old (by 2030) and pushed to its limit. It doesn't have to come to that if we act," the mayor told a forum unveiling the planning project.
For example, he said, "Our aging sewage network still discharges 2 billion gallons of sewage into our waterways every year."
Growth will require more power plants, playgrounds and subway routes, which the city must provide while safeguarding the environment in an age of global warming, Bloomberg said.
In addition to the city's millions of residents, infrastructure must accommodate the millions of residents of New York's surrounding suburbs who work in the city, as well as a growing number of tourists.
Absent were any details on how to finance mega projects, though Bloomberg noted that the city's bond rating was at its highest ever -- Standard & Poor's rates it at AA-minus -- and that last week a city agency sold $2 billion of bonds to finance a subway expansion with demand tripling the amount on offer.
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Just raise taxes Mike!!!
the transportation infrastructure cannot handle it.
Here's another:
They'll have to close parts of subway for a year in order to greatly expand the current system.
What about the baby boomers who'll die off by then?
a bazillion porto ricans and mexicans will easily offset the baby boomers moving to florida.
Don't forget the Chinese.
The chinese are busy taking over SF.
"Like other Chinatown districts in American cities, the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan is an ethnic enclave with a large population of Chinese immigrants. By the 1980s, it had surpassed San Francisco's Chinatown to become the largest enclave of Chinese immigrants in the Western hemisphere, but in the last few years it too has been outgrown by the lesser-known but larger New York City Chinatown community in nearby Flushing, Queens."
NYC is already a pretty crowded place.
Where are they gonna put all these extra people?
20 mexicans per 3 bedroom house.
This is what NYC needs to build.
NEW YORK: The number of residents in the city could put such a strain on its infrastructure by 2030 that the demand for power exceeds the supply, housing becomes scarce and rush hour lasts all day because of an overwhelmed transit network.
Related article:
The city will need to accommodate its booming population with thousands more units of affordable housing. More than a third of city renters already spend more than half their income on rent, the group said.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/12/america/NA_GEN_US_NYC_Future.php
"Where are they gonna put all these extra people?"
That's my thought, too. Upstate doesn't want them for good reason.
Looks to me like another of those bogus straight-line projections that ignores limiting factors.
"The baby's temperature shot up from 98.6 to 103 in the last two hours. At this rate, in a month he'll be as hot as the surface of the sun."
the outer boroughs are seeing alot of new housing construction.
upstate NY is an economic wasteland.
We're doing just fine up here.
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