Posted on 07/05/2020 2:03:42 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Such a deal!
How many politicians got their millions from kickbacks?
Funny how subway construction basically ground to a halt as soon as the city took it over from the private operators.
subway?
they will soon be able to float
downstreet on the copper-smelling blood.
I knew an electrician who had a deal sort of like that on a Boston project. Then he got mad and punched a Union official in the mouth. Turns out you can get fired for that.
Democrats.
Everything they touch...
Rule proves correct again.
And again.
And again.
I’m sure very little of that 4.6 billion actually went to dirt-moving construction costs.
Who wudda guessed?
Not only will there be a halt in subway construction but the amount of residential and commercial construction within New York city will be less than %0% of what it was in 2018. People and businesses are leaving.
I’m no engineer or architect. But wouldn’t it be a lot easier and less disruptive to build above ground along 2nd Avenue and use that for mass transit instead of a subway line?
I know that some of the New York mass transit system is above ground. I lived in Chicago for a number of years, and most of their heavy rail mass transit is above ground , with just a small amount being subways.
Just an observation, that I don’t know if I have what it takes to be an electrician, but wow. those guys can really make Bank.
Homer Simpson was a driver in the cartoon series...someone post a photo...thanks in advance
Why build a new station when the subway breaks down regularly, in between all the other ones?
Hell for that kind of money I would have pinched myself in the face if I was that pissed off. Ha!
I doubt that any of the multi-billion dollar choo choo trains that all the democrat controlled cities and states want will ever get built either.
Of course, building new mass transit boondoggles has never been as important as getting funds to build them so that democrats can line their pockets.
” I lived in Chicago for a number of years, and most of their heavy rail mass transit is above ground , with just a small amount being subways.”
You must have noticed how ugly and noisy the ‘El’ is?
Guessing, beyond that the streets would have to be closed for extended periods. Unknown duration because no one knows what is under the streets.
What is in the ground needs to be carefully explored for placement of support piers, on top of the piers the support structure than the rails...
Now the lanes or sidewalks are constricted and goodby to you view out the front of your residence...
Two minutes and forty seconds of life near the’El’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVmK0agsUmI
“getting funds to build them so that democrats can line their pockets.”
Do not forget the wink and nod to all their union buddies for construction, maintenance, and operations...
Wait. Don't tell me. Let me guess...
It's racist???
Sounds like a Boss Tweed project.
The elevated tracks over 2nd Avenue were torn down in the 1940s to make way for the subway.
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