MTA Postponing Rehabs of Many Brooklyn Stations
Yesterday the MTA announced it will delay the renovation of 19 subway stations around the city, the bulk of which are in Brooklyn. (Runner-up: The Bronx.) The biggest rehab that’s biting the dust, at least for now, is the overhaul of the Smith-9th station. Renovations of a number of stations on the D/M line are…
Yesterday the MTA announced it will delay the renovation of 19 subway stations around the city, the bulk of which are in Brooklyn. (Runner-up: The Bronx.) The biggest rehab that’s biting the dust, at least for now, is the overhaul of the Smith-9th station. Renovations of a number of stations on the D/M line are also being put on hold. To me, a cut is a cut is a cut, said Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, a transit advocacy group. Their spin is that they’re deferrals, but they’re deferred into no man’s land. MTA chief executive Elliot G. Sander said the postponements are coming because the authority doesn’t know how it’s going to afford the service improvements it’s already started, and that the MTA is facing a budget shortfall due, in large part, to a falloff in tax revenue from real estate transactions.
M.T.A. Cuts Delay Some Big Projects Until 2010 [NY Times]
Graphic from The New York Times.
A lot of original detail was lost from subway stations which already received makeovers. Cancelling these plans doesn’t sound like a bad thing at all. The City College station needed cleaning, but had beautiful terra cotta plaques. Many $$ later it looked awful, and, today, the re-do is rusting away and looks even worse.
1:21- are you kidding?
10:33 – “could you explain your case a little further”
I’m not The What but the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index tracks the resale value of existing single family homes in major metro areas, like here in New York.
http://tinyurl.com/3cz3kg
Though not apparently correlated to multifamily brownstones, it still reflected them as it shot up 200% for NY Metro since the 90’s. Therefore it is directly relevant now as it is now falling.
Smith and 9th needs some serious help – I always feel like it’s going to collapse. Also, why is that entire elevated section basically wrapped in garbage bags? Seems like a bad sign to me.
May I point out NO ONE has mentioned what these stations are actually like??
They are mostly D and N stops, many outside. On a summer day riding through to the end is rather scenic. Many of the stops have peeling paint and are old but not what I’d call filthy…just dilapidated.
so where exactly did you think he was going to do with the money, if not put it towards transit
word get some already.
bxgirl – you need to seriously mellow out.
11:53 – if your reading comprehension was as good as you think, you would know that what I said was ” Nor did they ever prove the money collected would go to improving public transportation. Bloomberg’s plan went down because he never addressed a lot of issues including who would be most hard hit.”
They didn’t prove to the state’s satisfaction that the money would actually go to improvements. Nor did Bloomberg address the impact of congestion pricing on everyone.
Perhaps you should have researched the issue a lot more before you mouth off.