Posted on 06/20/2013 9:40:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Most of the city’s 2013 mayoral candidates came together to broach public-transportation issues in back-to-back forums at Baruch College in Manhattan on Wednesday. Anthony Weiner was there, looking very determined to come across as thoughtful and focused rather than bored (as the press corps has branded him at previous debates). But it was John Catsimatidis, the grocery-store baron and long-shot Republican hopeful, who made the biggest splash of the morning when he called for building a monorail alongside the Long Island Expressway.
“Not subway, ABOVE-way,” he said, dismissing the possibility of expanding the existing underground rail system as a pipe dream. He expressed a wish to see “monorails going down the middle of the streets,” in keeping with his role as the fearless ideas man in the field. …
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Fertilizer for the neighborhood gardens that are found around NYC................
“Just bring back trolley cars pulled by horses,”
Then they’d have to create a Department of Road Apple Collection Department.
And this, after they turned a perfectly good elevated line on the west side into a freaking garden?
Sounds like a saving plan to me. A subway has three rails. A monorail has only “mono” one. It should only 1/3 as much as a subway and they won’t be under water when the ocean rises.
expell NYC from NYS.
make NYC a federal district.
Fearless ideas man from the 19th century.
What, Times Square Disneyland isn’t enough?
Hansom Cabs in NYC have a kind of diaper on the rear of the horses to catch them..........
Not only that it's porktastic!
Well, that used to be a freight line; last used by Conrail in 1980. Never was used for transit. But it could’ve been converted, yes, if not for the NIMBYs in Greenwich Village and Chelsea (used to go all the way to St. John’s Park Terminal, but was demolished between there and Gansevoort Street).
Bloomingidiot told us that he needs money because NYC is going to sink. Now he wants a monorail to get folks to the sink hole faster?
I always wondered what Willie Green's real name was.
” kind of diaper on the rear of the horses to catch them”
Ah,,,,, but the Department of Road Apple Removal Department would mean more Union jobs! No diapers for horses allowed. Hansom cabs are few, horse trolleys would be many, and all jobs would need to be Union jobs.
Take the train to the plane , take the train to the plane......
Man, I hated that commercial.
this a great idea that people will love
liberal idiots are just obssessed with fixed rail systems.
Literally obssessed. I think they all remember those slideshows of “The World of Tomorrow” as children and the first one at Disneyland, and then of course, Logans Run with the rail pods for travel, and just wet themselves.
But in keeping with the liberal mindset, they pick the most absolutely inflexible method of travel - rail - and the most costly to implement and move underground utilities and reinforce the street where the track is - and on top of that most disruptive to street traffic.
They are total idiots and should not be allowed in any decision-making positions ever.
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