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At Long Last, a Monorail for New York City?
New York Magazine ^
| June 19, 2013 at 3:54 PM
| Matt Taylor
Posted on 06/20/2013 9:40:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Most of the city’s 2013 mayoral candidates came together to broach public-transportation issues in back-to-back forums at Baruch College in Manhattan on Wednesday. Anthony Weiner was there, looking very determined to come across as thoughtful and focused rather than bored (as the press corps has branded him at previous debates). But it was John Catsimatidis, the grocery-store baron and long-shot Republican hopeful, who made the biggest splash of the morning when he called for building a monorail alongside the Long Island Expressway.
“Not subway, ABOVE-way,” he said, dismissing the possibility of expanding the existing underground rail system as a pipe dream. He expressed a wish to see “monorails going down the middle of the streets,” in keeping with his role as the fearless ideas man in the field. …
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gopestablishment; gopnyc; johncatsimatidis; monorail; porkulus; rino; simpsons
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lol wut? This is porkier than what most Democrats come up with.
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:40:33 AM PDT
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:43:46 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: Olog-hai
It’s NY- You know this just screams a future Lyle Lanley money-grab... (Any Simpsons fans?)
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:44:03 AM PDT
by
richmwill
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:44:44 AM PDT
by
justlurking
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To: KC_Lion
“Heh, heh...mule. “
You just beat me too it.
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:45:18 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:45:29 AM PDT
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justlurking
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To: KC_Lion
Just bring back trolley cars pulled by horses, it’s green and cheap, and proven technology..............
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:45:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Olog-hai
The GOP candidate for Senate in MA is running on a platform that includes a $10 national minimum wage.
To: 9YearLurker
Most policies that come out of Mass. politicians seem to advocate a $10 national AVERAGE wage.
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:47:29 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
To: justlurking; Vaquero; Red Badger
Wow, that was fast....Thank You, you just gotta know your Memes!
Except Main Street in New York is still all cracked a broken....
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:47:55 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: MeganC
It's Just Money!
The Store owner who goes broke paying that can make it up by applying for an EBT account.
Self Sufficiency is SO yesterday.
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:49:06 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: Red Badger
Just bring back trolley cars pulled by horses, it’s green and cheap, and proven technology..............Road apples...
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:49:27 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Olog-hai
They will only build a mono-rail if they can finagle billions in Federal funds/// meaning all taxpayers will pay for this BS
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:50:27 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
To: Vaquero
I watched a 1947 movie over the weekend, “Life With Father” (1947, starring William Powell, Irene Dunn and a teen Elizabeth Taylor), that depicted life in 1883 NYC. They had trolleys pulled by horses for public transportation. I thought, with a few modernizations, this could work today. It’s not like they need great amounts of speed to get around NYC..............
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:50:38 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: central_va
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:50:49 AM PDT
by
Conserev1
("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
To: justlurking
The late great Phil Hartman! Although a bona fide commie-lib, he knew his craft.
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:51:15 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
To: Olog-hai
Maybe they’ll dig up Ted Kennedy to run this boondoggle.
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:51:55 AM PDT
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: central_va
Modern day Hansom Cabs have devices to catch those ‘road apples’..........
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:51:56 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
The late great Phil Hartman! Although a bona fide commie-lib, he knew his craft.
He was Canadian, so he came by it honestly.
Trivia Fact: He did the cover art for the 1978 Poco album Legend
To: Red Badger
and we could assign the people on welfare to take care of their...um... “leavings”
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posted on
06/20/2013 9:56:44 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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