(erielack) re: NYCH

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

Schuyler -- In the wonderful world of regulated de-regulation, this is New York City -- widely known and admired for its competence and probity -- telling NYCH to prove that it has stopped beating its dog.  Sounds to me like somebody's buddy wants to take over a growing, lucrative freight business, but they have to rid themselves of the poor clowns who kept it alive over the years in spite of everything the city and the nimbys could do.  Business -- and politics -- as usual.

I speak from experience: many years ago, as Transportation Director for the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, I pushed for city support for the Oak Point Link and carfloat operations across the lower bay as a way to reduce choking vehicular traffic on the bridges and in the tunnels.  It was like shoveling mud uphill.  Even my boss didn't get it.  So I got it. And out.

Then there was the intermodal terminal at the ex-NYC 65th Street yards on Manhattan's West Side . . . but don't get me started.

Randy Brown

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