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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: NYC tax dollars at work
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 18:54:13 -0500
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On 5/14/2025 6:48 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 5/14/2025 6:53 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 5/14/2025 3:12 PM, sms wrote:
>>> On 5/14/2025 9:42 AM, Shadow wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 14 May 2025 09:08:59 -0500, AMuzi 
>>>> <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's not California's Train to Nowhere, but still:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/us-news/fuming-cyclists- 
>>>>> rip-nyc-for- taking-sweet-time-to-finish-west-side- 
>>>>> bike- path-leaving-dangerous- detours-behind/
>>>>
>>>>     At a guess, the governor/mayor is not a repuglican.
>>>>     If the bikeway was being built by the orange thing, the
>>>> headlines would be "predicted to be finished in 10 
>>>> years, it only took
>>>> 5, and it's the biggest, bestist bike path EVER, and it 
>>>> ONLY cost US$
>>>> 10 million".
>>>>     The nypost is a #FAKE_NEWS conduit, IMHO.
>>>>     []'s
>>>
>>> Take anything written in the NY Post with many many 
>>> grains of salt.
>>>
>>
>> Same story three weeks ago in streetsblog
>>
>> https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24/parks-dept- 
>> controls-vital-bike- infrastructure-but-treats-riders- 
>> like-an-afterthought
> 
> I object to phrases like "the only car-free safe 
> infrastructure." Far too many people think bicycling on 
> ordinary roads is horrendously dangerous. I suspect the bulk 
> of them have never examined relevant data, and/or are 
> incompetent at math.
> 

You and I are one on the general principle.
But, specifically, this project sucks.

Aside from the general waste, corruption and ineptitude of 
public projects like this, Peter Drucker went up a notch in 
his analysis:

"The worst thing is doing well that which should not have 
been done at all."


-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971