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Posted by Russ on Tue Jun 24 16:44:07 2008, in response to Re: M.T.A. Cuts Delay Some Big Projects Until 2010, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Jun 24 15:12:11 2008. You can believe that Elliott Sander is God's gift those of us blessed to have manage MTA. I prefer not to. I prefer to take his statements at face value, that he had reviewed MTA's revenues through early March 2008, that he publicly and very enthusiastically endorsed service increases, and that a few days later, MTA declared exactly the opposite of what Sander very publicly stated.Mr. Sander can inform us why he was - as you would have it - so severely mistaken in early March as to MTA revenues compared to what was declared in mid-March. Until he does that, all that I'm reading is a rather unpersuasive defense of a man who failed quite badly at his job. Either Sander made a huge error in how much revenue MTA had available, or else he participated in a crassly political ploy to make his now pathetic superior - Eliot Spitzer - look better in the run-up to the fare increases. Since I doubt that Sander will explain his conduct, you can feel free to do so in his place. There was already an explanation. The revenue projections changed. Now, for the third time, do you have any evidence that Lee Sander knew about the changes in revenue projections while he was promoting the MTA's plan? Also, stating that "either Sander made a huge error in how much revenue MTA had available..." is one of the most absurd statements that I've read. That insinuates that Mr. Sander is responsible for econometric modeling, or that the MTA should be able to execute such a function with precision. Ascribing such a responsibility to any executive, agency, or private business for that matter, where this is not part of their core competency is severely divorced from reality. The expectation that Lee Sander and the MTA should possess economic analysis that is superior to that of professional financial analysts and economists is so ridiculous that neither Mr. Sander, nor the MTA should be expected to answer for that. Such an absurd view, however, does help to concoct the conspiracy theories that I've been reading. |
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