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    The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth

    The Most
    Expensive Mile
    of Subway
    Track on Earth

    How excessive staffing, little
    competition, generous contracts and
    archaic rules dramatically inflate
    capital costs for transit in New York.

    An accountant discovered the discrepancy while reviewing the budget for new train platforms under Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.

    The budget showed that 900 workers were being paid to dig caverns for the platforms as part of a 3.5-mile tunnel connecting the historic station to the Long Island Rail Road. But the accountant could only identify about 700 jobs that needed to be done, according to three project supervisors. Officials could not find any reason for the other 200 people to be there.

    “Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything,” said Michael Horodniceanu, who was then the head of construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs transit in New York. The workers were laid off, Mr. Horodniceanu said, but no one figured out how long they had been employed. “All we knew is they were each being paid about $1,000 every day.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/n...ion-costs.html


    seven times the average elsewhere in the world
    It's worse than people think...

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    Trade unions, which have closely aligned themselves with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and other politicians, have secured deals requiring underground construction work to be staffed by as many as four times more laborers than elsewhere in the world, documents show.
    If you want to fix are taxation issues in NYS this type of stuff has to stop. Right down to the local level.

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    I wonder why net tax payers are leaving NYS

    The unions and vendors declined to release the labor deals, but The Times obtained them. Along with interviews with contractors, the documents reveal a dizzying maze of jobs, many of which do not exist on projects elsewhere.

    There are “nippers” to watch material being moved around and “hog house tenders” to supervise the break room. Each crane must have an “oiler,” a relic of a time when they needed frequent lubrication. Standby electricians and plumbers are to be on hand at all times, as is at least one “master mechanic.” Generators and elevators must have their own operators, even though they are automatic. An extra person is required to be present for all concrete pumping, steam fitting, sheet metal work and other tasks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    I wonder why net tax payers are leaving NYS
    Wait until people start realizing what the new tax law will do to them. The slow bleed will turn into a ruptured aorta. I can see the red states cringing as mobs of wealthy liberals create the same mess they left at home.
    Eventually the left will succeed in turning the US into a third world dung heap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Save Us View Post
    Wait until people start realizing what the new tax law will do to them. The slow bleed will turn into a ruptured aorta. I can see the red states cringing as mobs of wealthy liberals create the same mess they left at home.
    Eventually the left will succeed in turning the US into a third world dung heap.
    They destroy everything they control. They turned Buffalo into such a toilet that they fled it themselves. Then they took over Cheektowaga and Tonawanda and did the same there. Now that they’ve taken over Amherst that will be next to suffer the rot they bring with them wherever they go.

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