The MTA said [Friday] it will install about 240 sleek steel benches along Hillside Avenue in Queens in an effort to prevent flooding in the subways. The designer furniture will divert water from subway grates on an avenue particularly susceptible to flooding.
At an unveiling yesterday of the first installed bench above the Sutphin Avenue F-train station, MTA executive director Elliot Sander said the furniture "proves that we can fight flood waters with good design."
The new furniture is part of the MTA's effort to improve storm conditions after a torrential downpour last month caused major flooding in the system.
SUBWAY BE DAMMED
8 comments:
Another f----d up boondoggle retro fit to try and fix up an inadequate sewer system made even worse by over development that's going to cost us taxpayers millions!
(P-s-s-t...
I wonder which connected firm is going to be "awarded" the contact)!
i thought these things had bike racks with them.
Anonymous said...
Another f----d up boondoggle retro fit to try and fix up an inadequate sewer system made even worse by over development that's going to cost us taxpayers millions!
It's the MTA's responsibility to keep water from coming into the subway system. They're not responsible for the storm sewers. That's the City's problem. The City should be fixing the sewer system, but are they? What should the MTA do. Do you have a better idea?
What an eyesore. Hillside is one of the most demeaning (to pedestrians) streets in Queens anyway. Not a single tree for miles.
Stop splitting hairs
you obvious MTA employee.
Who the f--k cares whose responsibility it is the City's or the MTA's?
It's a damn boondoggle
to award a contract to one of your "deserving" street furniture contractors... maybe like CEMUSA
and then get some kickbacks!
You have got to be kidding? Like thousands of concrete filled buckets that suddently appeared this summer, then as suddently disappeared.
The whole thing is a bit odd.
I'll ask again. You've got a better idea?
Some big contractor isn't going to make big bucks by putting in a sewer line?
The old "F" & "E" (Independent Subway System) lines have been running through Jamaica since the 1930s.
Why the sudden flooding problem and a rush to rig an expensive quick fix that will benefit certain parties?
Could the cause
of poor drainage been increased by OVER DEVELOPMENT?
We think so!
You can't keep a pot from boiling over on the stove by just putting a lid over it.
You've got to get at the root problem by lowering the flame!
Just so with the flooding subways!
This whole move is just an artsy/fartsy BOONDOGGLE with a capital "B"!
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