Originally Posted by
grump
But I did read an article about the proposed subway extension into Amherst. As the old grump previously reminded people, this is not a mere street paving job. According to NFTA it would be a 10 year project; that's a decade of job killing, business killing, transportation killing disruption. Streets torn up for years on end, classes disrupted at UB as they build this idiocy right through the academic heart of the Amherst campus, ripping out millions and millions of dollars of road improvements recently made on Maple and Sweet Home roads. All in all, exactly the type of Democratically inspired, private sector killing project meant to provide a few dozen more jobs for public employee union ticket takers...that's the "economic development" that NFTA is offering.