From: nouser@invalid.com   
      
   On 9/14/15 11:20 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   > 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).   
   The city had all the say in the 7 extension as the city decided to   
   finance it.   
   >   
   >> 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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