Biden to propose $400M for Second Ave.
subway extension, Schumer and Espaillat reveal
New York Post,
by
Shant Shahrigian
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/27/2022 11:46:13 PM
The long-promised project to extend the Second Ave. subway to Harlem will get $400 million in the annual budget President Biden is set to propose Monday, according to New York Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Adriano Espaillat. After years of delays, the money will go to engineering and construction for Q train stops up to 125th St., the pair said.(Snip)The funding allocation “means we’re out of the station and heading on the track,” the Senate Majority Leader told the Daily News on Sunday. “Once you have $400 million allocated, that’s enough to start construction, and it means all systems are go,” he said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 3/27/2022 11:48:11 PM (No. 1111902)
Apologies to staff; source on this one is New York Daily News.
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The New Dig. All the better to get accosted or worse.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/28/2022 3:36:00 AM (No. 1111967)
Well, here comes a boon for the black demonrat vote.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/28/2022 6:19:35 AM (No. 1112001)
If New York wants a new section of subway built, let them pay for it. I doubt too many Nebraska farmers, Maine lobstermen, or Montana cattle ranchers (who get to pay for it) will be riding a subway to Harlem anytime soon (ever)!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 3/28/2022 6:24:48 AM (No. 1112004)
400 million for a city that's going straight to Hell. Most of their citizens are leaving for better run states. I guess the thieves, killers,and muggers need a quick way home.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mizzmac 3/28/2022 7:12:42 AM (No. 1112029)
Why is the Federal government paying for local transportation? I smell graft.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/28/2022 7:17:52 AM (No. 1112035)
Great! More distance in which to get knifed, beaten or murdered and more stations to push people off of the platform and onto the tracks.
Why does any sane person set foot on the NY subway these days?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 3/28/2022 7:23:14 AM (No. 1112043)
$400 million will magically blossom into $400 billion.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cThree 3/28/2022 7:43:14 AM (No. 1112059)
"All systems go" (Schumer) does NOT mean the thing will get built. It means the money spigot is open.
I lived in NYC for decades, and watched projects achieve near immortality "in progress." Everybody's getting grease, why would anyone want to stop?
Remember that's why Trump made lifelong enemies out of NY swamp creatures like Mr. Toad (Gerry Nadler) when he fixed up the Wollman rink "under budget and ahead of schedule."
Way back then, even, he proved that solving problems is NOT what a permanent political class wants.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/28/2022 8:07:12 AM (No. 1112090)
New York, Minneapolis, Chicago and other blue cities destroyed by blacks during the Summer of Love have been begging for federal funds to rebuild their stores. That's where the money would go, with adequate cuts for the pols of course.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 3/28/2022 8:33:49 AM (No. 1112121)
More opportunities for Asians to be assaulted.
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A reminder that “Schumer” means “scum” in Yiddish and was a surname given to traveling con men.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
The Remnants 3/28/2022 8:59:48 AM (No. 1112151)
Someone should tell the person who writes these bad checks that we have reached the credit limit. There's no more money to borrow.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/28/2022 9:15:13 AM (No. 1112170)
In Effing New York?? The president of the entire country is cutting in one little town, NYC, on his grift? What nerve. Why not help places like Bugtussle, Tennessee? Climax, Minnesota? Hell, Michigan? Those places didn't even make the census!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hisself 3/28/2022 9:30:58 AM (No. 1112186)
Tell me again why I, living in Texas with no desire ever to travel to Harlem, should have to pay for New York City's infrastructure.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 3/28/2022 10:01:00 AM (No. 1112225)
AND...who will get his palm greased with a substantial pay back for allowing the project to proceed...the weed smoking mayor who doesn't know what day it is...kinda like the privous mayor belandick...who took the money from the police fund and spent it on a new home in the Caribbean........nothing good happens in New York....
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Let Schumer, the governor and the mayor pay for this. This is their state, their subway and the other 49 should not be forced to pay for your boondoggle Chuckie/Eric. This must be a terrible idea or Trump would have made it happen for his fellow NY'ers. But they had to wait for the worst Resident in our history before they finally get their Big Dig boondoggle.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 3/28/2022 10:33:00 AM (No. 1112259)
Call it what it is, a bribe for Union support.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 3/28/2022 10:58:42 AM (No. 1112291)
10% back to the 'big guy'.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/28/2022 11:26:29 AM (No. 1112328)
Good. It will soon be easier for a certain group to go pick up their food stamps and welfare checks.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
little guy 3/28/2022 12:29:37 PM (No. 1112394)
Another shameful boondoggle of graft to Dem donors and unions! The MTA can't maintain or clean the subway tunnels and stations they already have --- they don't need another 2 miles and 5 stops.
No one over 60 will ever live long enough to ride this line.
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The Wall Street criminals last year paid bonuses totaling $45 billion, with an average bonus for NYC securities industry workers of $257,500. Maybe they're not taxed anywhere near high enough if people in the lesser 49 have to pay for their subways.