Posted on 05/01/2020 2:54:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan
If New York City doesn’t recover quickly and robustly from Covid-19, April 30, 2020 will mark the inflection point: when the city and state, afflicted with a historic crisis, decided to give up. That day, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York’s subway system will begin shutting down overnight, from 1 A.M. to 5 A.M. The shutdown is indefinite, so there’s a real chance that New York’s identity as the “the city that never sleeps” is gone. The ostensible reasons for the shutdown are public health and public safety. Earlier this week, Cuomo called conditions on the subway “disgusting.” The state and city want the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority to shutter the subway system so that it can deep-clean stations and trains. “During this overnight period, the MTA will intensify disinfecting operations, cleaning its fleet of thousands of cars and buses every night, and further testing new and innovative cleaning solutions, including UV, antimicrobials and electrostatic disinfectants,” the authority said. The city also wants these closures to discourage the estimated 2,000 people— mostly adult men—who regularly use the subway system as overnight shelter. Though it’s hard to get a firm count during a pandemic, this number is likely higher now, as homeless individuals’ usual refuge points—public libraries and fast-food seating areas—are closed.
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Lucky for me the states I’d still like to explore are SD, ND,ID,WY, and NM.Blue states will have to pay for their sins now.
Why would I care what horrible people suffer.
It has needed to die since long before this particular crisis.
And NEW YORKERS should look no further than the corrupt mayor deblowjob and the equally arrogant and criminally corrupt governor cuomo. Look no further than these two selfish self righteous criminal idiots and no where else.
Tokyo never stopped packing their trains. They shoehorn people in.
Will they flush the drunks,junkies, and mentally deranged out with firehoses? Might be the cleanest the subway there has been in years.
Actually, crime went down under Bloomberg because, back then, he believed in stop and frisk.
I bet it’s like a ghost town. Amazing. Are the “flashie” (neon) lights on in the city? Does it even look like NYC? Hard to imagine what it is like now that subway down
I was just about to post that. And somehow London survives with the underground not open 24/7. You know the hours and plan around it.
I know. I had to take a cab to work in the morning, because it was too early. But I liked taking it home. I think it was the most convenient I ever used.
Yes. Dayton adopted the “Eds, Meds, and Feds” approach to growth. You see how it’s working. UD had purchased vast expanses of old NCR properties south of the city. Other than that, it’s UD/Wright State, a few hospitals, and WPAFB.
They keep trying to “revitalize” downtown. Doesn’t work. Too much crime and no convenience for anyone to shop there.
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