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But that 1.5-mile “stubway” alone cost $4.6 billion

Such a deal!

1 posted on 07/05/2020 2:03:42 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

How many politicians got their millions from kickbacks?


2 posted on 07/05/2020 2:05:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where do you find the word "except" in the 2nd Amendment?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Funny how subway construction basically ground to a halt as soon as the city took it over from the private operators.


3 posted on 07/05/2020 2:05:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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subway?

they will soon be able to float
downstreet on the copper-smelling blood.


4 posted on 07/05/2020 2:06:15 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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By the end of 2016, many of the workers were earning the equivalent of three weeks’ salary in just one week, according to the book.

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.

5 posted on 07/05/2020 2:08:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Democrats.

Everything they touch...

Rule proves correct again.

And again.

And again.


6 posted on 07/05/2020 2:09:11 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m sure very little of that 4.6 billion actually went to dirt-moving construction costs.


8 posted on 07/05/2020 2:10:18 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


10 posted on 07/05/2020 2:13:23 PM PDT by allendale
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


11 posted on 07/05/2020 2:25:45 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Why build a new station when the subway breaks down regularly, in between all the other ones?


13 posted on 07/05/2020 2:47:00 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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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.


15 posted on 07/05/2020 3:07:28 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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Why New York City will never build another subway station

Wait. Don't tell me. Let me guess...

It's racist???

18 posted on 07/05/2020 4:26:59 PM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Then the unions soak their guys with huge union dues, and then donate it to the politicians. A legal kickback.


24 posted on 07/06/2020 3:18:01 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (It's time to get back to work!)
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