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womzillaAnd other times, it takes a little more work to connect the dots.
As people here have noted, yesterday evening there was a fire in a control room at the Chambers Street station on the 8th Avenue Subway line in lower Manhattan. Because of this fire, the local train--the C--will not be able to run for an undetermined period; the estimates are two to five years, though I have a gut feeling that it will be less than the lower bound of that estimate. This is not a crippling blow to New York's infrastructure, but it is a significant one; the Blue Line (as New Yorks do not call it) is the third-busiest group of trains in the MTA, carrying several hundred thousand passengers a day, and this fire has effectively wiped out express service along a route which runs nearly the entire length of Manhattan.
It has transpired that the fire was set by a homeless person trying to stay warm.
So while everyone was expecting a second massive terrorist attack, the biggest infrastructure damage it has suffered since September 11th was caused because New York doesn't manage to provide basic life services to its neediest.
Way to set priorities! Thanks for the clue-stick, world.
As people here have noted, yesterday evening there was a fire in a control room at the Chambers Street station on the 8th Avenue Subway line in lower Manhattan. Because of this fire, the local train--the C--will not be able to run for an undetermined period; the estimates are two to five years, though I have a gut feeling that it will be less than the lower bound of that estimate. This is not a crippling blow to New York's infrastructure, but it is a significant one; the Blue Line (as New Yorks do not call it) is the third-busiest group of trains in the MTA, carrying several hundred thousand passengers a day, and this fire has effectively wiped out express service along a route which runs nearly the entire length of Manhattan.
It has transpired that the fire was set by a homeless person trying to stay warm.
So while everyone was expecting a second massive terrorist attack, the biggest infrastructure damage it has suffered since September 11th was caused because New York doesn't manage to provide basic life services to its neediest.
Way to set priorities! Thanks for the clue-stick, world.
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Date: 2005-01-26 09:23 am (UTC)One of the planks of her platform was the RENOVATION of structurally sound buildings as cheap housing.
The total cost would have been about 1/3 to one half that of what mayor Crotch was proposing and would have generated twice the number of housing units for the poor and low income.
She was painted as being unrealistic.
I think that was when I gave up on New York City as being a positive entity.
By the way, are there still decals on the windows of abandoned buildings in the Bronx?
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Date: 2005-01-26 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-26 03:53 pm (UTC)Just as it wouldn't surprise me to hear a conservative read this whole comment chain and insist that the poor couldn't possibly appreciate a place to live if it was given to them for free.