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.
thanks, dave :-). Now if I could only find the receipts for the plastic surgeon who gave me that sex change operation. I guess 10:47 is investing the fact that both bxgrl and biff begin with “b” with heavy symbolism. Impressive in a Nostradamus-y way, but sadly has no basis in fact.
I cant wait till all the politicians who killed congestion pricing – bitch and moan about this.
Mass Transit needs a steady source of funding (beyond just fares) and congestion pricing would have provided it.
In the end you have to ask – what did y’all expect?
bxgrl= biff
10:41…and yet you continue to comment about her posts!!! Odd, ya think?
Don’t worry bxgirl. Nobody really cares what you think one way or another.
Oh! Wait! I misspelled improvement. Just wanted to admit to that before the trolls went nuts.
What about 4th and 9th? Are they still moving ahead with that???
10:13 It’s good to be queen. Thanks! But twasn’t moi. It must come as a shock to you but there are others who disagree with polemicist (by the way- notice I used the correct spelling, and apologies to 10:19).
Thanks for presenting the facts 10:27- perhaps if we had invested more wisely in public transportation, and expanded it where they really needed to increase services, we would have less cars,pollution, and traffic problems.
While it’s nice for the people in Manhattan to have a 2nd Ave. subway, it was far from the most necessary project. the Bronx and Brooklyn could use a lot more improvemnt.
I’m going to order a “Fire the MTA” onesie for 10:19… biff, what’s your address?