$160M Bob Diamond Suit Also Over City's Trolley Dodging
It turns out that the lawsuit that the Atlantic Avenue tunnel tour guide Bob Diamond filed against the city is not only for more money—$160 million rather than $100 million—than previously reported, but that Diamond is also suing over the scuttled proposal to run trolley service from Red Hook to Downtown Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Paper…
It turns out that the lawsuit that the Atlantic Avenue tunnel tour guide Bob Diamond filed against the city is not only for more money—$160 million rather than $100 million—than previously reported, but that Diamond is also suing over the scuttled proposal to run trolley service from Red Hook to Downtown Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Paper reports that not only is Diamond suing because the city stopped allowing him to run his tunnel tours last year over safety concerns, but also because he says he put $1.5 million of his own money into setting up the trolley service. From the article: “Diamond began laying down tracks for the streetcar line that was slated to run from Beard Street to the subway nexus at Borough Hall via Columbia Street and Atlantic Avenue in the late 1990s, and received approval from the planning commission under the city’s lengthy land-use review process to complete the project in 2000.” Diamond says the city then tried to sell rights to the project off and then pulled the plug on the proposal earlier this year when a study said the service wouldn’t draw enough riders.
Bob Diamond Sues City Over Trolleys [BK Paper]
Guide Sues City for $100M Over Atlantic Ave Tunnel Tours [Brownstoner]
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Suing. Damn auto correct.
Is he during for breach of contract?
Is he during for breach of contract?
i’m curious about what this guys qualifications are to build a railway? the article also not mention if he had a contract to establish this railway. this guy sounds like a nut job.
My comment was a fact from the article.. it WILL cost almost $200MM to build and there ARE only 1,800 daily commuters.
“the Department of Transportation found that the $176-million system would serve just 1,822 riders each day.”
PS: In the streets? This is all underground.
i got my facts from the article that linked brooklyn paper. did you even read it?
What makes you qualified to ask such questions?
If you could read THE lines it says that they went through a review process.
You sound like a real dum-dum to me, talking out of your ass.
200 million also sounds way too high unless the trolleys are gold plated.
Trolleys though – who needs them?
I like the way the buses pull to the curb at every single stop,
And have to wait to reenter traffic.
Its my favorite part.
Ive been to europe, who wants those things here?
This is brooklyn, not disneyland.
And the people in red hook, we should leave them isolated?
Not like theyre reading this blog anyways.
Who cares that trolleys would be great, the dot probably doesnt have the know how to implement such a thing.
They paint a few streets and close them off, and the dot commissioner is hailed for her geniuswork. Wow! Great job! Give me a break…..
The problem is that there are only 1,800 daily commuters and the project would cost $200MM. It’s not sustainable.