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May 8, 2009
NY transit riders still risk more hikes
Reuters.com
Reuters published this story just hours before Lee Sander was forced to resign as Executive Director of the MTA by Governor David Paterson.
Asked whether the MTA's rail yards in Brooklyn would see a basketball arena next year, part of a residential-office complex planned by developer Forest City Ratner, Sander said only: "I'm not in the arena business."
NoLandGrab: It appears that Sander, who had nothing to do with the rigged agreement to sell the Vanderbilt Yard to Bruce Ratner, was the fall guy for Albany's lack of meaningful action on the MTA funding crisis. Rather than scapegoating a capable public servant, perhaps the Governor should instead be pulling the plug on the MTA's worst land giveaway ever.
Posted by eric at May 8, 2009 1:35 PM