Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A look inside the 7 train extension

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does anyone really why the cost of a token has gone up so much ?

2 freaken billion dollars to go a few blocks ?

If the feds weren't backing this kind of waste, it would never happen.

georgetheatheist said...

$5 a ride soon.

I drove to NJ on Sunday via the Verrazano and Goethals Bridges. The round trip total tolls were - with EZ pass - $19.85 for a passenger vehicle.

And MTA everything is going up March 3.

Anonymous said...

Construction union payoff, kickbacks to pols, wash rinse and repeat. Taxpayer screwed.

Anonymous said...

Only $2 billion. Ben Bernanke prints that in less THAN A DAY! He is printing $85 Billion per month right now, with no end in sight. Like $25 a gallon gas?

Anonymous said...

Let's call it the #7 train erection!

Somebody's got a hard-on for construction contracts!

Anonymous said...

Has there been a subway expansion that hasn't benefited New Yorkers?

Anonymous said...

I think the reason, which I agreed with, for #7 Train extensionto Javitz Center, was valid and even wise when the original plan was to double the current size of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center and modify it for most conventions that currently go to other cities. Now, I don't see the reason or much benefit to extending it there since the Javitz expansion has been decreased to, I believe, a mere 5000 Sq Feet. Which is a joke, that's nothing. Instead Bloomberg wants to basicaly build a new NYC with Convention Center, mall, a complete mini city, industrial/commercial site at Willets Point, expand the downtown Flushing district with Flushing Commons, and I forget the name of project from College Point Blvd to Flushing River between the Flushing Bridge and Roosevelt Ave (by Skyview), expansion of USTA, Soccer Stadium in Flushing Meadow Park. N.F.P.