Saturday, August 29, 2009

You Better Look Before You Vote For Mike Bloomberg

The one main reason you don't see roses growing in NYC.


Political Sky is Falling in on Mike Bloomberg: For the last 8 years, what has he done about maintaining our infrastructure ?


"A few days ago, at the West 181st Street station of the No. 1 subway line, the roof literally caved in.... "


"There are three critical pieces of infrastructure that make a city as dense and complex as New York work. One is the water and sewage system, the second is the power system and the third is the subway system. It costs more to maintain these pieces of infrastructure in a city as built up as ours than it does in less crowded places. A lot of our infrastructure is old and in need of maintenance. Some of that infrastructure maintenance is well financed. Some, like our mass transit system, is not...."


"One would like to think that the roof falling in would be a signal that change is needed...."


--Steve Cohen, "The Roof is Caving In: Time to Find Funds for Infrastructure" in The New York Observer

1 comment:

  1. THem boys in Bayside are the most dangerous and backwards of all. The city should toughen inspections for medical, psychiatric and vehicle reasons to cut down the number of congestion. This way, we will also get the voters against congestion pricing, who live in Bayside and Staten Island, to move away. Free health care means psychiatric care for all those angry talk radio white males!

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