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Posted by WillD on Mon Aug 3 19:00:26 2009, in response to Re: LIC residents still angry at LIRR, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Aug 3 11:08:05 2009. Yet we never seem to think twice spending taxpayer money to build and maintain or establish soundwalls, berms, or noise abatement proceedures because some exurban subdivision residents bitch about the road, railway, or airport that predates their McMansion by 25, 50, or even 100 years. Why is this case any different? Those strategies for aesthetic improvement usually come at taxpayer cost and are of course quite independent of the infrastructure costs for essential services; the roads, water supplies, transit lines, schools, sewers, and etc. The municipalities and ultimately the state government end up eating those costs because the developer inevitably finds a way to weasel out of bearing the burden of his creation.In this case we have development in an area with decidedly well established infrastructure on what I'd be willing to bet was a brownfeld site. The private-public partnership which was likely used to remediate the site probably saved the state and city some money, while the resident's urban lifestyle will save the government billions over the course of their collective lifespans when compared with housing a similar number of people in the exurbs. All that while the improved property value raises property tax rates on adjacent sites, increasing the city's fiscal independence from the state. Yet how do we react when faced with the prospect of having to spend a few thousand dollars a year to provide these residents with the same level of aesthetic improvement an exurban community would take for granted? We give them the Bronx Salute and scream "Yuppie Scum". No wonder some idiots think NY is dying, you fucktards want to drive everyone who does not meet your predermined concept of what a NYer or a Queens resident is or isn't. Descriptions such as clannish or xenophobic don't even begin to describe the utter idiocy of the violent opposition to the residents' grievances exhibited in the preceding posts. IMHO the only problem here is that I have yet to hear of the residents going after the developer for noise abatement arrangements. I think the LIRR should co-opt the residents to fight the developer and in so doing secure at least partial funding for a hotel power system at LIC. The LIRR would get the savings in fuel consumption and wear and tear while not bearing the full capital cost to install the system. |
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