Would You Build a Multi-Billion Dollar Transportation HUB in
Zone A, Lower Manhattan, Now or in the Future?
This BLOG is to give praise to the government’s handling of
Hurricane Sandy both in the preparation phrase and now in the recovery
phase. Lives have been lost, homes have
been burned and leveled and hundreds of thousands of people left without power
will bravely suffer, many of them in Zone A and numbers of people in Zone B and
other areas where power is not expected to be restored for as long as fourteen
days, as per reports. The flooding has
been massive. The suffering will
continue.
With all due praise given to the government, the
politicians, the brave first responders and the number of volunteers, this is precisely
the time to bring up the lack of foresight as the Metropolitan Transport
Authority has continued planning to build a transportation hub in the lower
part of Manhattan which this writer feels would be both dangerous, unwise and
wasteful. No one is talking about it
now. It is not the time, even this
writer feels for this discussion but if we are learn from and plan wisely
costly structures to benefit New York City that the lessons from Hurricane
Sandy prove that an underground transportation hub in the next few years in New
York City is a boondoggle. K. Leslie Graves
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