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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jul 24 06:05:07 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by SMAZ on Tue Jul 24 05:02:23 2007. Thank you! :)Actually, transit's WORST enemy was LaGuardia who insisted that those pesky els come down. He was followed by O'Dwyer and Impellittieri who followed that tradition of preserving a hopeless fare and finally by Wagner who *truly* sent things into a tailspin in "deferred maintenance of EVERYTHING" but things had gotten *so* bad by his time that even he had to begrudgingly bring along the original "redbirds" fleets in both divisions owing to public outrage over how bad the subways had gotten by the 1950's and some bond issues which paid for them, along with Moses' wants. I *love* how people get off on the 60's and 70's as the pits of transit. It was FAR worse in the 50's, but in the 1960's John Vliet Lindsay came along and made QUITE the commitment to rebuilding the subways. It was Lindsay who brought us "air conditioned cars" and all that came from the R38's and beyond ... then the city ran out of money with such massive car purchases and other economic downturns. And here we go again repeating history with the 14x's and 160's, but this time even Cobleskill gets to foot the bill. :( Moses ABSOLUTELY played his part, his ego forcing HIS priorities to the front of the soup line but I have to agree that when transit was in the city's hands, there were MAYORS to blame for all that transpired and the city council. Lindsay's expenditures finally pushed the TA over the edge and out of the wisdom of the time, Lindsay ceded authority for the TA to the "Long Island Railroad bailout" by the state to the enhanced MTA which now runs it all in order to keep his promise of "air conditioned subways" a reality even if the city gave up its transit to the governor. Lindsay was a republican, so was Rockefeller and thus the boy had faith. And as long as Rottenfeller was governor with his own personal checkbook, nobody worried about getting paid. Until he became Veep and Ford flipped off the city along with Rocky and his Friends. :( LOT of revisionist history out there ... LOTS. :( |
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