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'Summer of hell' begins for New York commuters: Massive eight-week track-reconstruction [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| July 10, 2017
| Staff
Posted on 07/10/2017 4:19:54 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: ml/nj
As long as the political climate prevents the expansion of the transportation infrastructure, these problems will not get any better.
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07/10/2017 8:53:42 AM PDT
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Mmmike
To: ml/nj
I’m from The Rockaways where the Cross Bay Bridge connects two Queens neighborhoods. The original toll was a dime ... it’s now $4.25 each way.
To: Mmmike
As long as the political climate prevents the expansion of the transportation infrastructure Whadaya mean no expansion! They extended the IRT #7 line one stop, and built (part of) a new 2nd Avenue line (proposed 1919, construction began 1972, "first phase" opened this year). There's also a "new" 63rd street line with one station in Manhattan.
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/10/2017 10:10:59 AM PDT
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ml/nj
To: ml/nj
Lindsay ruined transportation by giving MTA workers that suicidal health plan because he didn’t know how to negotiate when they struck on his first day in office, a petrifyingly cold day, January 1. We are still paying for that, as the children who were covered are still alive.
To: Mmmike
Old book by Robert Daley,
The World Beneath the City, covers other ground too but his history of the subway system is superb. The subway is ancient and so complicated that there is a vocational high school in the city just for future subway workers.
We have bigger problems than just not enough track.
To: C19fan; All
There's a funny story about the language the MTA uses in our local paper:
subway-speak.
NEW YORK CITY GOP MAN said his favorite explanation was "There's another train in front of this one. As soon as that train moves, this train will move too."
To: C19fan
Attempting to experience sympathy... failed.
Sorry, I just don't have any sympathy for anyone that lives in that freak show of a city-state by choice.
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07/10/2017 11:12:33 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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