{"id":3425,"date":"2008-05-10T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2008-05-10T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T13:18:17","slug":"mayor_bloomberg_on_transportation_priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/mayor_bloomberg_on_transportation_priorities.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Bloomberg On Transportation Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you thought it would be a good thing for the City to control transportation projects, there’s this — Hizzoner paying a little too much attention to the wrong parts of the Power Broker<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bloomberg said Friday that a week or two ago, developer Jerry Speyer expressed concerns about whether the city would complete the 7 subway line extension critical to the $1 billion project.<\/p>\n

“If I were you,” the mayor said he told Speyer, “I would make absolutely, positively sure that we are going to build that subway before I put one dime of my own money in.”<\/p>\n

The MTA’s announcement Thursday night that it had canned the Tishman-Speyer deal came without warning to the mayor, City Hall insiders said.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Neither Bloomberg staffers nor Tishman-Speyer representatives would discuss the outcome of the hour-long talk at Bloomberg’s London apartment Friday.<\/p>\n

“The plan isn’t dead by any means,” Bloomberg said before the sitdown. “All these things go though many cycles.<\/p>\n

“The No. 7 line is going to get done,” the mayor added, “and it will be so far along before I leave office that nobody’s going to be able to stop it.”<\/p>\n

Plans for the site include thousands of units of housing, commercial skyscrapers, a school and parkland.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, well as long as there’s a park<\/em> — and a school<\/em>! — Robert Moses would smile, since he popularized the “get as far along as possible and make ’em take it back down” philosophy of urban planning (recently embraced by Bruce Ratner<\/a>, among others).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you thought it would be a good thing for the City to control transportation projects, there’s this — Hizzoner paying a little too much attention to the wrong parts of the Power Broker: Bloomberg said Friday that a week or two ago, developer Jerry Speyer expressed concerns about whether the city would complete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-please_make_it_stop","category-real_estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}