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Re: All Transit Closing at 11 Tonight |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Mon Jan 26 17:55:17 2015, in response to All Transit Closing at 11 Tonight, posted by italianstallion on Mon Jan 26 17:30:19 2015. I would not be surprised if after this storm if Wall Street is affected enough that some firms take the State to court to prevent them from completely shutting down the subways UNLESS there is an IMMEDIATE threat of life and death, requiring the underground portions run at ALL TIMES. There are some companies that deal with clients in other countries, and many of those people I believe were critical of the MTA's shutdowns for Irene and even Sandy, especially those in Japan who actually worked through the horrific earthquake and tsunami that hit a few years ago with no interruptions at all and even worked and did stuff through a super Typhoon that was considered worse than Sandy last fall that his parts of Japan.This obviously is blowback from the 2010 storm when the MTA was ill-prepared because of when the storm hit at Christmas. The lack of normal media availability at Christmas (something that has not happened since) and people who could not get out of family/religious commitments without being harshly criticized also contributed to what happened with the 2010 blizzard. I would not be surprised if we saw blowback the other way from companies who have to look at the bottom line to appease shareholders who in many cases "don't care how the sausage is made." This would include lawsuits from firms affected and even possibly The New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ that would block the Governor or MTA or anyone else from shutting down the system entirely. |
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