{"id":5960,"date":"2010-05-02T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2010-05-02T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:18:20","slug":"less_extension_than_people_mover_to_nowhere_yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/less_extension_than_people_mover_to_nowhere_yet.html","title":{"rendered":"Less Extension Than People Mover To Nowhere (Yet!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News&#8217; Adam Lisberg (who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/what_can_46_million_get_you_these_days.html\">taken an interest in this story<\/a>) reminds us that while yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/a_riddle_wrappe_1.html\">the $2.1 billion one-stop 7 train extension<\/a> will be &#8220;on budget,&#8221; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/05\/02\/2010-05-02_dont_add_7_line_to_citys_list_of_goofups_not_building_station_will_help_no_one.html\">only because the project has been stripped down to its barest essentials<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Does Bloomberg want to land a $2.1 billion project on budget no matter what? Does he not want to get behind a crusade unlikely to succeed? Does he truly believe $500 million would be better spent elsewhere?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t answer that last question . . .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The 7 train extension was always about making real estate more valuable, not about helping straphangers. That&#8217;s why the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is putting its scarce cash into the Second Ave. subway, not the 7 train.<\/p>\n<p>Already, people are moving into new apartment buildings on 10th Ave. without a subway station. Related is building one directly above the phantom station, and leaving empty spaces for stairwells just in case.<\/p>\n<p>The message is clear: The real estate industry will build on 10th Ave. without a subway, but not on 11th.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what the developers will get. Everyone else will have to live with it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News&#8217; Adam Lisberg (who has taken an interest in this story) reminds us that while yes, the $2.1 billion one-stop 7 train extension will be &#8220;on budget,&#8221; it&#8217;s only because the project has been stripped down to its barest essentials: Does Bloomberg want to land a $2.1 billion project on budget no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","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=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}