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“Yes, wasn’t Robert Moses such an awful fellow, now that you think about it? ”
Slicing Columbia Street off from the rest of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill was a “brilliant move” which pretty much everyone has come to see and are now actively planning to modify.
For every good thing Moses did, he left a hideous mess somewhere.
Benson, in context of building bridge from scratch in 13 months, it’s comical that it’ll take 2 yrs or something and 500M to repaint BK bridge.
“I’m not sure what could have been done differently – certainly with one of my deals when it’s been frivolous litigation delaying an otherwise shovel ready project.”
“The government still plods along, the bureaurocracy, which moves at glacial speed in an emergency, holds things up, and demands ridiculous standards for everything, and nothing gets done. Getting anything moving is like watching a snail try to climb up a greased pole. ”
Yes, wasn’t Robert Moses such an awful fellow, now that you think about it? We wouldn’t want his type back on the scene, would we?
Just a reminder ===> Bronx-Whitestone Bridge – built in THIRTEEN months. That’s right. THIRTEEN months.
politicians are not as dumb as people perceive them. it’s the stupid adherence to party lines that’s F’ing things up and stalling everything. Vote out the incumbents – Dems and Repubs and independents……
stop worrying about re-election and just doing the damn job your ass was elected to by the people. Are there more Christies out there?
moribund
lol
*rob*
rob, even if you did or say anything, there was no one in that bar to actually kick you out…besides the 80 year old owner. Cheyenne might of kicked your ass though if you said something inappropriate to her but I guess she didn’t so you’re all good and safe :o)
JB, you’re probably correct if Xing is mandarin phonetic translation
I love the expectation that Obama can jump start, and then fix the economy, run 2 wars, fix the environment, make world peace, and then walk on water, all in his first term. If you read everything he’s said, he never said he could do that. Everyone else said that, or expected that. I think his biggest fault is not in what he hasn’t done, it’s in thinking that people really want change. They don’t. The government still plods along, the bureaurocracy, which moves at glacial speed in an emergency, holds things up, and demands ridiculous standards for everything, and nothing gets done. Getting anything moving is like watching a snail try to climb up a greased pole. The system has been like this for so long, it’s moribund.
I think Obama underestimated how entrenched and moribund it is. He has great power, as president, yes. But most things domestic have to go through the Senate and the Congress, the biggest stick in the muds in the universe, two large bodies of government totally dedicated to keeping themselves in power, first, serving the people, a distant fourth or fifth. If Obama can figure out how to make people in government, both electeds and bureaurats, function swiftly in this time/space continuum, than that alone will make him the greatest president we have ever had.
Dave, do you pronounce his name “Shing”?