The world isn't fair.

Yeah, we still have employment laws and even if the firing is legal, doesn't mean it's above criticism. Responding to "that's unjust" with "well, life isn't fair" is defeatism and I reject it.

The only saving grace is that this is a federal case.

If it was a NY case, with the crippled judicial system we have, there would be no hope of ever getting George Santos convicted for that.

What the hell does this story have to do with the DuCk SaUcE KiLLEr. Focus.

Good luck with that buddy. The cop unions would eat anyone who wanted to do that alive.

The harshest lesson that some people learn in life is that it isn't fair no matter how many songs you sing or chants you voice. This is especially true in media. It's about money, money, money, money and money.

This dude has an impressive catalog of random schemes

The time has never been better to stop and reverse this. That's what these young workers were saying about their situation.

“This is a fight for working class people globally”: Caterpillar workers rank-and-file committee holds powerful meeting against sellout agreement

By the time Millennials in City Service retire the retiree health plan will be a box of expired bandaids thrown in a puddle in front of you as you exit on your last day.

Maybe we'll beat that record with the Harlem extension 🙂

A few years ago, Cuomo showed up to a MTA worksite where 130 people were supposed to be working unannounced and there was actually noone working while they were getting paid to be working there. Theres lots of corruption.

Yeah it's wild. I'm pretty sure in most major cities an escalator repair is something they do overnight. A replacement is a weekend job, sorry for the inconvenience.

The city sold bonds against future tax revenue from Hudson Yards development to fund the 7 extension.

We are at an absurd level of estimating for all of my construction projects. We are having quotes come in 4x the amount estimated.

I wish phase 2 of the second avenue line was extending it south toward FiDi.

you need 3 union guys to watch the 1 doing the work.

Interest rates are way up. The MTA needs to fund construction with bonds, which are now much more expensive.

The escalators at Court Sq were down for like 4 months. Not even replacing, just repairing. I noticed they kept putting up new signs with different completion dates, and then eventually the signs just went away completely.

The escalators are still down about once a week.

It’s more that the independent contractors and consultants that the MTA hires charge absurd amounts. If the MTA kept on more staff for large projects and did everything in-house you would have lower costs.

Because something is deeply rotten to the core in our process for building infrastructure to the point that it is just not affordable.

It doesn't have to be this way. Literally no other world class city in the world pays even a fraction of our costs.

The solution isn't to just somehow find 7.7 billion dollars for this, it's to figure out why the fuck it costs more than the 1 billion it would cost in London/Paris/Rome/Madrid/Tokyo/Singapore/Hong Kong/Beijing/Seoul/Osaka etc.

The fact that the police responded and brought the menacing ex-cop to the police station is at least a step up in enforcement compared how they handled the duck sauce killer. Such action probably reduced the likelihood of this feud from escalating into a murder.

In contrast, the duck sauce killer was only arrested after he murdered someone from the restaurant staff he was menacing.

Simple things like that could deter a crime and it's a lot cheaper than incarceration, etc.

They are replacing one escalator at the station near my office.. October to July (target, will probably be late).

Now I'm no expert, but how does it take 10 months to REPLACE an escalator? The structure already exists, the electrical is run,. You just replace the escalator which I'm also pretty sure you get all the parts delivered and just have to assemble.

The nypd do not serve the public and cannot the trusted. There are no good cops in a system like this, they all need to be fired and replaced with an organization accountable to the people

That is true. Interest rates are pretty damn high relative to the last 20 years and only going to get higher until the fed sees higher unemployment and lower inflation.

3.4 billion for 7 extensions. 4.6 billion for SAS1. 12.1 billion for East side access which they fucked up unsurprisingly. and 7.7 billion for SAS2....I wonder if the MTA is willing to pull that massive checkbook for for outer-Boros transit expansion?

Also, its time to prioritize elevated railways over subways given the insane amount of ancillary infrastructure needed to construct and operate a subway.