{"id":4565,"date":"2009-03-19T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2009-03-19T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:59:19","slug":"grandstanding_studies_cost_city_taxpayers_thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/grandstanding_studies_cost_city_taxpayers_thousands.html","title":{"rendered":"Grandstanding Studies Cost City Taxpayers Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh sorry, I guess the real headline was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yournabe.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/18\/queens\/queensopcmowl03182009.txt\">&#8220;No. 7 shutdown cost city commuters $25M: Gioia&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New Yorkers lost more than $25 million because of service cuts to the No. 7 subway line during an eight-week period in January and February, according to the preliminary results of a study City Councilman Eric Gioia&#8217;s (D\u00e2\u02c6\u2019Sunnyside) office conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Gioia said the shutdown of the No. 7 line on weekends from Times Square and Queensborough Plaza from January to early March cost commuters $25.9 million and at least 950,000 hours because of extra travel time over eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Yorkers not only lose their time, but their hard-earned money when they have their commutes interrupted by service delays,&#8221; Gioia said. &#8220;The subway lines are the lifeline for most New Yorkers &#8212; when the trains don&#8217;t run, New Yorkers suffer. The MTA needs to take tangible steps towards making sure that when there are service interruptions, they have a minimal effect on New Yorkers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Using a formula developed by Princeton University economist Alan Krueger, the study analyzed how much money detours, additional trip segments and increased wait times were costing the average rider of the No. 7 subway line, which runs from Manhattan to Flushing through northern Queens.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/lic\/hunterspt\/7traindetour\/index.htm\">shutting down the 7 between Times Square and Queensboro Plaza on the weekend<\/a> certainly sucks, and I&#8217;m sure there is a &#8220;cost&#8221; to making the commute longer, though it&#8217;s obviously minimized on the weekend, but the other thing that sucks is neglecting infrastructure, and, you know, getting delayed at more inopportune times. But Councilmember Gioia <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/archives\/2009\/01\/gioia_lic_resid.php\">got a lot of mileage out of this eminently grandstandable issue<\/a> (MTA bad! Beleaguered outer-borough residents!) and there&#8217;s no reason to stop even after the delays are over . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh sorry, I guess the real headline was &#8220;No. 7 shutdown cost city commuters $25M: Gioia&#8221;: New Yorkers lost more than $25 million because of service cuts to the No. 7 subway line during an eight-week period in January and February, according to the preliminary results of a study City Councilman Eric Gioia&#8217;s (D\u00e2\u02c6\u2019Sunnyside) office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","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=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4566,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}