The astronomical costs of building the Second Avenue subway and other New York public transit projects are now the subject of a federal inquiry.
The Government Accountability Office said on Wednesday that it was preparing to launch a study of why transit construction is so much more expensive in the United States than in other parts of the world. Special attention is expected to be paid to New York City, where recent projects have cost far more than anticipated.
Auditors plan to examine contracting policies, station design, project routing, regulatory barriers and other elements that drive cost, comparing practices in different cities in the United States and abroad, officials said. A final report with recommendations is to be issued by the end of the year.
The study was part of the spending bill that was approved by Congress last week. And it comes three months after an investigation by The New York Times revealed how city and state public officials had stood by as a small group of politically connected labor unions, construction companies and consulting firms drove up transit construction costs and amassed large profits.
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No further proof of the egregious and nefarious mismanagement of funds than the 2nd avenue subway, which for some stupid reason had to be done in two segments instead of completing the entire line. I don't even know if construction going to 125 has even started.
BILLIONS SERVED. $BILLIONS WASTED.
That line is just so slow. I took it one time and it had me waiting forever for it to come. I could have walked faster to my destination than the time it took for this stupid thing to come.
NOT ALL UNIONS ARE CREATED EQUAL. GIVE THEM SOME LIP SERVICE AND THEY WILL ABUSE THE PRIVILEGE FOR THEIR OWN POLITICAL GAIN AND CONTROL. THEY ARE MADE UP OF PEOPLE SO IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT THEY'RE EGO'S WILL CORRUPT THEM.
The MTA will not tell us how bad and dangerous the track conditions are throughout it's system . That's why the trains have to go slow
MTA: Madness, Trauma, Assault.
Billions NOT served by 'ALL PAY and NO WORK' MISMANAGEMENT, all of whom are an embarrassment to ACTUAL primates!
'Gargoyle Andy,' of the dynastic, MAFIA criminal enterprise that has overtaken the Executive Chamber (of Horrors), in Albany, has finally admitted that it is HE HIMSELF who oversees the MTA (as well as the MTA Office of the Inspector General - State of New York), after years of refusing to answer the question, and worse, brainless stonewalling that has already destroyed all pretense of public trust, ethics, integrity, accountability and transparency.
It's time to abolish this vile, vapid, vacuous, insipid and insidious agency of profligate, wanton waste——as well as the ULTIMATE gubernatorial stooge of corporate obedience HIMSELF. Worse, anyone whom would entrust an entire state to this unfunny circus clown (TWICE, no less——and after a vacuous, seemingly endless run as an EVEN MORE vacuous New York State Attorney General), doesn't remember how Mario's EQUALLY DEPRAVED son left HUD in ruin after his tumultuous, BrainWashington, D. C. wake of terror (and, OPENLY PRACTICING money laundering Ponzi scheme).
❝We hang the petty thieves, and elect the great ones to public office.❞ ——Aesop
❝The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening.❞ ——George Orwell
❝Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.❞ —―Friedrich Nietzsche
❝No man will ever be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.❞ ——Denis Diderot, French philosopher
So much blame to go around. The workers only do what upper management tells them to do. Too many people who really have no clue are in positions they shouldn't be in and are milking the clock and management just continues to bill and get paid and when shit hits the fan, we all lose.
Nobody ever gets fired or prosecuted, so the elites and the rank and file, have no reason to stop what they've been doing for decades; by the way one could say the same thing about Con Ed workers and their management.
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