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Whose bright idea? (Boondoggle: Changing the lightbulbs at NJ’s new Frank Lautenberg Station)
The Bergen Record ^ | Thursday, April 13, 2006 | JOHN CICHOWSKI

Posted on 04/13/2006 8:05:30 AM PDT by dead

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To: nuconvert

"Why does he have a rail station named after him?"

Because he has railroaded conservatives in the state during his terms of election . BTW the bulbs are dim because HE is a dimwit !!


21 posted on 04/13/2006 9:24:02 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: dead

How did they originally install the fixtures and bulbs?
Sounds like someone was bored and the unions wanted a payoff.


22 posted on 04/13/2006 9:49:21 AM PDT by jjjf
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fedora; Fred Nerks; ...
from April 2006, an amusement:
First, crack a hole in the roof big enough to drive a crane through. Then, hoist a crane onto the roof using, well, another crane. Build a ramp, widen a doorway and protect the interior floor with some plywood. Then you can start thinking about unscrewing a light bulb. The $700 million Secaucus Junction station was built with no easy way to change the bulbs that surround the rotunda skylight... "Any large facility, like a sports arena or a convention hall, builds in simple, inexpensive ways of performing routine maintenance, but not this one, I guess," said Mahwah's Gene Corrado, who passes through the station twice a day... "Architects design these beautiful buildings and they don't think about how you're going to maintain them," said Control's district manager, Peter Manetti. "But it's just high. It's something that can be done." "It's standard operating procedure," insisted Tom Gallo, the station's operations manager. "It's no different from the kind of maintenance they do at malls." ... "It'll take us a couple of weeks," said Vito Fragola, Control's site manager, when interviewed on the rotunda floor early Tuesday morning... Asked when the lights had last been replaced, Gallo said it had been about two years. Actually, this week is the first time. The station opened 28 months ago and the lights have been slowly burning out since then.

23 posted on 05/26/2007 12:51:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 26, 2007.)
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To: CertainInalienableRights; SunkenCiv; Coleus; jocon307; Alberta's Child; Pharmboy; Calpernia; ...
I can't remember how to post a pic (and its a large one) but here's a layout of the station:

Use a search engine to find the command for open a link in a new window.

Copy and save it so it's convenient. Just enter the URL between the last quotation marks and label the link appropriately, e.g. Frank J. Lautenberg Train Station. That's an easy way to link oversize pics without messing threads up and distorting the comments, yours and everone else on the thread.

Frank J. Lautenberg Train Station

Maybe the folks in New Jersey can use the RICO Act to get rid of the dems?

24 posted on 05/26/2007 2:05:51 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

:’)


25 posted on 05/26/2007 6:32:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 26, 2007.)
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To: dead

Idiot architects.


26 posted on 05/26/2007 6:34:05 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bondjamesbond

Oh, so it was a political “gift”. A “grift”. The architects ... maybe they are political grease monkeys, then.


27 posted on 05/26/2007 6:35:50 PM PDT by bvw
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To: martin_fierro
Lefties just love spending OPM.




None of this would be happening if Frank Lautenberg were alive today.

28 posted on 05/26/2007 6:39:59 PM PDT by Petronski (Fred!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Just to give you an idea as to how things are still done up here...


29 posted on 05/26/2007 6:59:08 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: dead
Why would anything with the name of Frank Lautenberg associated with it want the light of day shone upon it?

-PJ

30 posted on 05/26/2007 7:02:46 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Petronski

Is that a joke? Physically he’s still alive, the laut.


31 posted on 05/26/2007 7:27:17 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Lx
Physically he’s still alive, the laut.

I'm gonna need proof.

32 posted on 05/26/2007 7:50:45 PM PDT by Petronski (Fred!)
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To: Petronski

Weekend at Lauties.


33 posted on 05/26/2007 7:52:53 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Clemenza

Do I gotta say it ?

34 posted on 05/26/2007 8:06:09 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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To: dead

It is fitting that badly designed boondoggle govt buildings are named after our most lousy elected policians.


35 posted on 05/26/2007 11:51:49 PM PDT by WOSG (Stop Illegal Immigration. Call your Senator today. Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121.))
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To: CertainInalienableRights

Build hooks into the ceiling, to which a pulley can be attached. Use cable slung over pulley to hoist worker to change bulb. Who needs a stinkin’ crane?


36 posted on 05/26/2007 11:58:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: dead
Two words:

Scissor lift.

37 posted on 05/27/2007 12:01:49 AM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: dead
I need a pro to change my kitchen light when it burns out. Its a vaulted ceiling with no way to reach it safely!

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

38 posted on 05/27/2007 12:03:01 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: nuconvert
Why does he have a rail station named after him?

Because everything else is already named after Senator "Sheets" Byrd?
39 posted on 05/27/2007 12:17:06 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: IncPen; BartMan1

ping


40 posted on 05/27/2007 12:25:21 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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