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The reason WHY I didn't enclose this notification in my Notes from the Underground section is because the proposed MTA cuts will effect everyone in this city, including tourists, for years to come!
The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056 was handing out flyers, I assume, since there was one sitting on the living room table when I came home.
In the union flyer they advocate that you insist the MTA uses federal stimulus funds to prevent cuts in service--WRONG--the Second Avenue Subway, which has been on the drawing board for almost a hundred years, is THE biggest drain on MTA fiscal resources.
In the end, the Second Avenue Subway will cost a minimum of $100 billion to service NYC's richest sector...Jay Walder wants to make buses fashionable--THIS is the sector of the city where his dream can come true--saving the MTA billions
And WHAT should we do with the already excavated three to four blocks on Second Avenue, at the cost of how many billion$--well HEY--Walder and the MTA Über brass can use it for office space...convert those offices on Madison Avenue in mid-town to a hotel that could compete with the Roosevelt
