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10/24/09
10/24/09
Also: Pope Alleged To Be Catholic; Bears Relieve Themselves In Woods. #mta
10/24/09
The occasional marriage proposal and regular refusal to look up from their magazine is quite alright by me. #mta
10/24/09
it's an overpowered union and the salaries, on whole, are too high.
the LEAST we should get are pleasant people. #mta
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10/28/09
i understand they do indeed work very hard and, as you said, earn every penny.
i do have issues though with the blatant union protections some genuinely bad employees receive, considering their benefits and how they're taken care of over time. and that's all i was commenting on, bad employees and how this extremely strong union wrongly protects them.
but then again, no one ever mentioned that this was a 'dream job'...sorry, but blue collar workers (myself one of them) shouldn't necessarily be making what, doctors for example, are making.
that doesn't mean i approve of the wall street bonuses or how plastic surgeons tend to make more than heart specialists or vaccine researchers... #mta
10/24/09
London transit operators were lovely when I lived there, back in the day; working the lifts and waiting for everyone to get in.
Moscow subways are marble and crystal showplaces of the people's state.
Washington, D.C., has a small but shiny Metro system.
The day mass transit is supported nationally in this country to a fraction of the extent that we all subsidize driving and highways will be the day that things are cleaner and brighter and nicer. #mta
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08/04/09
I have occasionally wished Mayor Bloomberg was a bit more like Mussolini, but this wasn't what I meant.
08/04/09
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BTW, is it better for him not to call for changes to transit in this city? Is your advice to Bill Thompson "Don't worry about it, it's Albany's problem"?
08/04/09
08/04/09
Not that it shouldn't be done, eventually, but to just come out and say "Why aren't there countdown signs? We need countdown signs! I promise countdown signs!" just demonstrates a total misunderstanding of the issue. This is not a question of laziness or a lack of will. This is a question of the MTA not having a trillion dollars lying around to put an optional convenience feature in some stations. And if it did have that money, it'd probably rather put it towards the Second Avenue line, which is another project that's been put off for something like 60 years and that would actually help riders in real and tangible ways. Especially given that the main reason for installing CBTC on the L line was so the MTA could have automatic running trains and cut the driver out to save on costs, and now that's not happening. So basically, they really did spend all this time and effort on a bunch of countdown signs.
08/04/09
How about instead of throwing money at crooked contractors, we hire the illegal immigrants that could slap a condo together in a month and just pay them to do it.
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12/17/08
They must have been seriously high when they came up with that concept. "OK, so they're birds, but they're journalists. And they live in trees, but type at desks that don't quite fit right in the tree. And they wear rumpled suits and smoke cigars and wear old timey newspaperman visors, but they don't seem to ever fly or leave the tree. And one of them looks oddly like Roger Ebert. So... draw that. Let's hit the bar."
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