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Crumbling roads and spotty internet trouble small U.S. businesses
The Japan Times ^ | May 30, 2019 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/01/2019 6:08:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

NEW YORK - Every hour that one of The Advance Group’s trucks is stuck in highway or bridge traffic, it costs the moving company around $200. And with 40 trucks trying to get into Manhattan daily and contending with the New York metro area’s deteriorating infrastructure, the price of lost time runs up quickly.

“Getting to and from a job site is not really billable to a client,” says Anthony Parziale, president of The Advance Group, based in the suburb of Farmingdale.

(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bridges; broadband; business; communication; congress; construction; economy; funding; highways; infrastructure; internet; logistics; nebraska; newjersey; newyork; newyorkcity; omaha; roads; transportation; trump

1 posted on 06/01/2019 6:08:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yeah I haven’t worked in Manhattan in 10 years and though I loved the city for many years, it has gone insanely left and I am fine living AND working on Staten Island.

Though I AM poking around PA.


2 posted on 06/01/2019 6:09:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maybe if you New Yorkers spent less on welfare bread and circuses you’d have more money for roads and infrastructure.

You tax the Hell out of your citizens, and still don’t have enough. I don’t think getting more money is the issue, the issue is how you already spend it.


3 posted on 06/01/2019 6:10:47 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: BobL; sphinx; GreenLanternCorps; big truck; knarf; oldvirginian; Pete-R-Bilt

PING!


4 posted on 06/01/2019 6:10:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Modern Democrat Party: America's largest hate group.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

That is always the case in any locale. The peasants are taxed to death with promises of curing all the ills and it is never enough with promises never kept. Thou shall not lie.


5 posted on 06/01/2019 6:16:03 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Oh heck yes it is...

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“Getting to and from a job site is not really billable to a client,”


6 posted on 06/01/2019 6:18:59 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: dp0622

Though I AM poking around PA.
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Finish poking and get moved to PA before the 2020 election. We’ll need all the “toss up state” votes we can get for Trump’s re-election.


7 posted on 06/01/2019 6:28:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: House Atreides

Let evert state do there infrastructure...why he hell should I pay for roads in NYS..I left the hell hole in 1980....

I have driven in every state in the lower forty eight..

Red states have the best roads for the most part

Route one in Maine was the worst ever..


8 posted on 06/01/2019 6:34:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The moment any tax passes, usually for a feel good reason, the welfare deep State Govt worker royalty bums,
suck the tax dry for their recreational toys.

Either become a parasite yourself,
OR leave, move.


9 posted on 06/01/2019 6:38:19 PM PDT by TheNext (Diversity: Darker Replaces Lighter)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Deport every illegal and visa overstayers and there will be a huge decrease in traffic.


10 posted on 06/01/2019 6:48:19 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Getting to and from a job site is not really billable to a client

The last time a plumber came to my house, they billed $134 transit fee. That's for getting from one site to another.

11 posted on 06/01/2019 6:56:57 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Hojczyk
Roads are the best index of the value of your government. You can't hide the fact that you are negligent as an entity if you can't keep the highways in good repair. What inevitably happens, you rob from the highway fund to fund social welfare. You figure you can buy another year out of Highway 67. And then another, and then another... If the roads are bad, the government is bad.

I traveled to Salamanca, NY recently. Salamanca is on Native American land. Though they have a casino, the roads are almost impassible. You can calculate the corruption on on hand...

12 posted on 06/01/2019 7:12:30 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“Getting to and from a job site is not really billable to a client,”

Getting a plumber (non-union at that) to my house, five miles from the town center, will run me $75.

They call it a service call charge and the expensive fun starts after that.

13 posted on 06/01/2019 7:38:54 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yes, I’ve been posting lots about the extremely poor condition of NYC roads, the lack of lane markings, and the burned out street lights. Add to that the DELIBERATE social engineering going on with eliminating left turn lanes, taking over right lanes on main thoroughfares for “buses only” (which creates lots of congestion in the remaining lanes), “congestion pricing” for Manhattan, a huge increase in tolls and you can see the commie hand in this-—they are trying to make driving as uncomfortable, inconvenient, and expensive as possible so that we’ll all ditch our cars and use DumblASSio’s stupid bike lanes. That’s the only way he will be able to get more than 3 people a day to use them.


14 posted on 06/01/2019 8:04:31 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: dp0622

Screw NYC

I MEAN IT

get the hell
Out

Never ever go back

It’s one of the upper levels of hell

Esp under de blah blah


15 posted on 06/01/2019 11:33:06 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’m not quite sure how they would put new roads into Manhattan. :-p


16 posted on 06/02/2019 1:00:18 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Getting to and from a job site is not really billable to a client

So he's willing to travel anywhere in the world and just bill his standard rates with no mileage fees? That's really cool of him. Most folks adjust billings based on costs.

17 posted on 06/02/2019 4:55:41 AM PDT by PAR35
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