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.
You didnt only call him on it.. You went on and on and still going. Get a life loser.
Hey Daveinbedstuy, your hackneyed blame the unions rant takes the place of a thinking brain. Oh yeah – lets have more of those great upstanding efficient non-union businesses like Enron, Arthur Anderson, Bear Stearns, Halliburton, Tyco, Worldcom etc..
what –
could you explain your case a little further. I’m genuinely interested in what you are saying, but I’m confused by what point you’re making. I’m not familiar with the Case Shiller…
All bickering aside-
I’m just disappointed that our transit system’s long-overdue repairs are being shelved, instead of increasing them at a time when it would create further incentive to bring people out of their cars. Imagine what progress could’ve been done if the tax breaks given to Goldman Sachs/Yankee Stadium/Citi Stadium/Atlantic Yards et al were instead placed into our transit infrastructure.
the MTA should get NO sympathy. there are people at the MTA who make OBSCENE amounts of money. the MTA is ripping off New Yorkers. people should not stand for it!
http://www.cafepress.com/FireMTANow
Public transportation requires subsidies — that is a fact of life. Subsidies to the MTA have eroded over time, they refunded debt in a way that pushed costs off into what at the time was the future (which is now), and their revenue sources fluctuate with the economy.
Plus, they have taken on some big projects like the 2nd Ave subway that have sucked capital money away from bread and butter maintenance projects.
So, this news is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.
By the way, the operating costs of New York City Transit, the component of the MTA that runs the subways, are covered to a much larger degree by fares than just about any other transit system in the country.
Fares and fairs is not spell checking, idiot. He spelled the word correctly. Oh wait…I must be dave/biff/nokilissa/bxgrl/BTG/whatever. Yeah, because I called polemecist on his dumb statements. So now we have to be subjected to the same garbage you do everyday, 10:06?
And we can all tell the IQ queen is posting today.
I can see right through you losers hiding amongst us.
I think we all knew who the POS spell checker was. and it’s even more obvious now.