A rash of broken machines is not expected. The board is doing a better job of training poll watchers and they're maintaining the machines better. |
Arbitration - in which the rank and file will have no vote - is a recipe for potential unrest for years to come. |
Before the strike, there was considerable sympathy for the workers, but once the strike began, that clearly changed. The real winners are neither labor or management but the public that desperately wanted their subways and buses back. |
Ferrer can't even get heard competing against this grotesque spending. |
For everyone, it was a challenge. For many people, it was a hardship. They couldn't get to a doctor's appointment, they couldn't get to the office. |
For many people they don't have a choice. They take the 4 and the 5 and they have to go through Midtown. If you can take the local, the No. 6, that's a good idea and you definitely have to give yourself extra time. The Transit Authority says there'll be delays of 10 minutes, which always means to me that it will be a lot longer than that. |
He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future. |
I can't fault them for picking a defense contractor, given all the public pressure to make the subways more secure, |
I can't fault them for picking a defense contractor, given all the public pressure to make the subways more secure. |
I don't think they do it lightly. I don't think someone is saying, 'How can we make everybody's day more miserable?' They are plagued by the fact the system, in some places, hasn't been touched in decades. ... This is why you need to build a Second Avenue subway. |
I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway, ... That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from $100 million a year to $75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants. |
I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway. That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from $100 million a year to $75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants. |
I'm worried about the politicians trying to use the money for things that make them look good and still leave the riders holding the bag. |
If it works ... that would be great, but it should be subject to rigorous, tough testing. |
It makes no sense in an age of terrorism to leave only one person at the front of a train that might be carrying more than 2,000 people. |