From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Monday, September 14, 2015 at 10:47:05 AM UTC-4, M. John Matlaw wrote:   
   > On 9/13/15 5:52 PM, John Levine wrote:   
   > >> And the people who use it should pay and extra buck to ride there and   
   > >> cover the costs of the bonds issued to pay for that useless extension.   
   > >   
   > > The MTA says once the Chelsea Piers development is open, they expect   
   > > it to be the busiest single line station in the system.  There's   
   > > already plenty of traffic whenever something's happening at the Javits   
   > > Center.   
   > >   
   > > I wonder how long it'll be until they build the 10th Ave station.   
   > >   
   > Probably not going to happen.  A station at 41st and 10th was originally   
   > set to be built but Bloomberg axed it saying the city couldn't afford   
   > it.   
      
   The city provides a fairly small portion of the MTA's budget and has no   
   control over the system -- four appointees on the 27-person board, or   
   something like that. I don't recall a Bloomberg-Pataki feud like the   
   present one (where Cuomo seems to go for being _more_ generous to the   
   city than the mayor asks).   
      
   > He said that they would, however, carve out the space and finish it   
   > in the future but later axed that too as unaffordable.  What burnt me   
   > most, though, is that at the time Christine Quinn, speaker of the   
   > council, whose district included Hell's Kitchen said, as far as I know,   
   > absolutely nothing about those decisions.   
      
   That was inexcusable.   
      
   > Part of the reason I was   
   > definitely not going going to vote for her in the mayoral primary.   
      
   Where she would have had _less_ influence on the MTA.   
      
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