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Posted by ctrabs74 on Thu Nov 5 23:58:41 2009, in response to What does Spano's ouster mean for Bee Line?, posted by RailBus63 on Thu Nov 5 14:30:44 2009. In the overall scheme of things, Spano was run out of office based on the anger from voters over Westchester County having the highest property taxes in the nation (at least from what I've read in the Post). With that said, I would look for Astorino to attempt to make cuts across the board in all county departments - including WCDOT.With that said, I hope that Astorino doesn't consider reaching out to the MTA over taking over the Bee-Line. I don't see what benefits Westchester gets out of a takeover by the MTA. On that same front, it'll also be interesting to see what happens with the County Exec race in Nassau. From what I read in the papers, the incumbent Suozzi (sp?) is in a very close race with his Republican opponent. Again, voter frustration over high property taxes is the root cause. if Suozzi loses and the Republicans retaking control of the county legislature, I have a feeling the same thing could potentially happen in Nassau - across the board budget cuts in all departments, meaning some potential nervousness about LI Bus. And, don't forget New Jersey. What Gov. Elect-Christie does with respect to NJT should be interesting, considering he ran on a platform of reforming the way things are done in Trenton. To make a long story short, the voters have spoken in Westchester, Nassau, and Jersey. The electorate is fed up with out-of-control spending at the local level, and it showed in the polls. How this affects transit services in the tri-state area remains to be seen, but you can almost be guaranteed that transit services will be affected. Whether that means service cuts or (preferrably) management efficiencies and hopefully more transparancy (hello, NJT), the next 12 months will be very interesting indeed. |
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