Originally Posted by
grump
Leftie, I hope the extension never happens in the future of the world. Just about every major publicly funded construction project here is about union featherbedding and lining the pockets of the friends of politicians. I thought everyone knew that by now. Cuomo has simply carried the latter to a heretofore unseen level of "in your face" boldness that no one else dared try. The bid rigging here, in Syracuse, in Albany is so shockingly obvious that he clearly feels that he and his contributors are totally above the law. I believe that mass transit (including, subways, street level light rail and other complementary modes) is needed and desirable in many places. WNY ain't one of them! This is an area that, notwithstanding the "reporting" by the Fake News, continues to lose population. And the people who are moving in aren't working; they're being put on welfare just as fast as the Democratic Party and the Catholic Church can manage it. They only trips they need are to social services, social security and the nearest drug den. I've ridden mass transit in other places, NYC, DC, SEPTA in Philly. This is the only place I remember that sneaks ticket checkers on and off trains. It's a make work job for Democrats. Every place else has automated ticket check systems, not here. We have Councilmember X's halfwit sister in law trying to sneak on the train to outwit ticket jumpers, totally asinine. Once you've built a subway or street level train system it's fixed and immovable.