From the Daily News:Perhaps you can use the extra time on your commute to think about how Mayor Bloomberg promised you free crosstown buses last summer.
It was the splashiest part of his 34-point transit plan: He said most riders on the M50 and other crosstown routes use free transfers off another bus or subway, so charging them was a waste of time.
"The lost revenue is trivial," he said. "We've done the survey."
The mayor promised more: The F train would start running express on unused tracks again. Three closed LIRR stations in Queens would reopen. Staten Island would get a train line on the North Shore.
A year later, none of that has come true. The MTA doesn't have enough money to keep all its trains and buses running, much less expand them or let people ride them for free.
One insider says Bloomberg's city staff never thought free buses could work, even as the campaign staff ran with it.
"That was the laugher," he said. "He had to know it was a joke. Nice campaign fodder, though."
The big things take money, however - money the city and the MTA don't have.
When a Staten Islander asked Bloomberg a few weeks ago if he could help with the bus cuts, the mayor brushed him off and said his hands were tied.
"You are getting the short end of the stick, and you should be out there screaming," Bloomberg said. "I don't know what else to tell you."
5 comments:
Shocking. How terribly, terribly shocking.
Does anyone really think that Bloomberg believed what he was saying?
Bloomturd break a promise? IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Is there anybody who even believed that bs?
Apparently. He was reelected, after all.
i was stuck for three hours in the Queens grid lock mess trying to cross into Manhattan on Christmas week,during the quick strike called by the M.T.A/T.W.U.
this N.Y.Times article of 6/29/10,"RECALLING A UNION BROTHER WHO IS KAGAN'S BROTHER", will give you an idea of your future if she is confirmed to the SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.
they are a gang of left wing progressives and they control your schools,unions and possibly the U.S.Judiciary.
say something while you still have the constitutional right.
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