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July 26, 2006
Do the Math
New York Magazine, Intelligencer
By Mark Adams
In a week when the temperature hit 100, the numbers didn’t always add up... A new study detailed how Bruce Ratner’s rail-yard stadium complex—the price of which jumped from $2.5 billion to $4.2 billion, and which is looking less like a 21st-century Rockefeller Center than a Brooklyn Brasília 2.0—would result in gridlock. (Ratner offered his own fifteen-point plan in response, including embedding all 18,000 Nets tickets with MetroCard strips.)
NoLandGrab: New York Magazine should do its own "math." "Embedding all 18,000 Nets tickets with MetroCard strips" would be a HUGE cost that Ratner couldn't possibly assume and would be totally irrelevant to those traveling to games via automobile.
What Ratner's 15-point plan actually suggests is much more modest — a two-trip MetroCard may be offered to ticketholders at a 50 percent discount.
Posted by lumi at July 26, 2006 8:25 AM