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TheNormalAlternative t1_je2eibi wrote

Reply to People are smoking on the train and the MTA does not give a shit by Topher1999

Did you try simply moving to the next car?

Edit: responding to u/ShadownetZero who responded and immediately blocked me like a child

Moving to the next car is literally the most useful thing you can do for yourself. You don't have to interact with the smoker, and therefore avoid getting into a physical altercation. You also remove yourself from an unhealthy and uncomfortable environment.

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Inevitable_Celery510 t1_je2e932 wrote

Reply to comment by queensnyatty in MTA Doubles Down on Construction Costs by michaelmvm

Designed subway caverns!

The tunnels for 2nd Ave Subwaynhave been underground since the seventies connecting 96th, 110th, 116th and 125th. Caverns (or platforms) must be built, utilities & track need to be llaid and connected to caverns(which must be built out).

There was money for all of this, should have been included in the 96th street opening. Was in the design team before AECOM bought out all of the small pure engineering firms.

MTA is supposed to publish all costs due to usi g taxpayer money, but politicians do not hold them accountable neither do taxpayers.

I applaud the NYPost, when they want to report for the people they step it up. Many of my friends are gone, but they all said if you want to know what’s going on in NYC, ya gotta read the post.

Unions have less power than overpaid, rogue contractors paying leads $400K, no one cares if they finish design in time without error.

The best and compliant contractors are never hired anymore. Rogue contractors come here for the money, leave without work completed. When we worked, people high up in the the MTA when asked who was the client during a Project Managent training exercise had no clue! It was unbelievable.

A contractor wanted to hire me, a Hindu male was hired, she wanted me to sue. Perhaps I should have, but finding a good lawyer at the time was not happening.

I have many stories re: refusing to hire quality people to do the design , engineering and construction for MTA. It’s gotta be a mess now!

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CasinoMagic t1_je2az3f wrote

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov used government email to solicit business by mowotlarx

Well, in the light of what the current and former mayors did, it is kinda inconsequential. That doesn't make it excusable, though (nor did I say it was), nor legal.

But it's such small fish stuff compared to the bigger scale fraud happening in local politics that it's almost laughable to focus on that.

But then we don't have a ton of local GOP politicians, so we'll take what we can. We did have George Santos, though, that one for sure delivered.

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bittoxic00 t1_je2aem1 wrote

Reply to comment by natekrinsky in Ex-homeless tenants face mass eviction by Lower East Side landlord by natekrinsky

If you plan on not staying and being evicted with a judgement along with an eviction on your record, by all means pocket that money and move on. If you hope to stay and would like to withhold money for reasons because of conditions that money has to be deposited in a separate account. They’re just setting themselves up for failure IMO

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