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October 16, 2009
A Bad Deal for the MTA and Its Riders
The Huffington Post
by Gene Russianoff
Straphangers Campaign staff attorney and chief spokesman Gene Russianoff outlines the case against the MTA's railyard fire-sale to Bruce Ratner.
We wuz robbed!
With that broiling grievance in mind, the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign joined in a lawsuit this week objecting to the rotten deal that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority struck this past June for the rights to build over the Vanderbilt Yards in Brooklyn.
If this deal goes ahead - with the Forest City Ratner company - it will mean scores of millions less for the MTA's upcoming critical five-year capital plan, from buying new subways and buses to repairing the transit system's infrastructure, such as signals, track and stations.
Most of the facts of the case are not in dispute.
Posted by eric at October 16, 2009 1:27 PM