As Colonel Potter would say - horse hockey!
You do know that the horses' favorite song is - Why Don't We Do It in The Road?
And they do - lots of it.
- Rusty!
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. …
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As bad as the pollution is now nothing compared to the disease bred from tons of horse crap and the rats and pestilence it brought.
sounds like Bostons big dig where EVERY piggy ate off the gub mint trough.
Yes sir all you dem supporters and unionists, step right up and suck the teet of big gub mint.
Yep . . . election coming up . . . time to throw more shovel-ready job proposals which the government can’t afford and the citizens don’t need. Some things never change.
They are soon closing their monorail and demolishing the infrastructure.
The NYC illegal aliens should feel ‘right at home’.................
They might actually be easier and cheaper to build than expanding the current underground network. And the LI Expressway is totally dysfunctional because it’s simply too crowded (for that matter, the trains are overcrowded too). So this really might not be a bad idea.
I’d have to see more about it, though.
I thought it was Rail Rhodes.
Sydney Monorail is only 2 1/4 miles long.
They are demolishing it and replacing it with a light rail system.
Sounds like a spitting battle between suppliers and Union make-work project to me.
Excellent.
Once completed, suggest they run Bloomy, the UN and CBS, NBC, ABC and the NYT out of town on it.
I’ll bring the tar. Who wants to bring the feathers??
My beef-a-rino...
Long Island’s becoming a basket case too. Now if they didn’t get rid of the Central Branch between East Garden City and Bethpage Junction (mostly removed when building Levittown, but a lot of the right of way is still there), they could have had an alternate rail line to Ronkonkoma and Babylon.
1965 Worlds Fair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efn86xwfASQ
Don’t the Dems understand how much environmental damage is done by all these infrastructure projects?!
I liked it alot better when it had train tracks on it.
The EL is back!
Like having Willy Greene reborn before our very eyes~!
No kidding.
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