« Who's in charge of AY at the ESDC? A team, but there's no point person (any more); FOIL request regarding mystery volunteer still pending | Main | Future NJ Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov avoids questions about basketball, bemoans fate of Russian biathlon team »
February 17, 2010
Julia Vitullo-Martin's cognitive dissonance
Willets Point United
From the Neighborhood Retail Alliance:
...as we have been pointing out, the EDC proposed development would create new environmental hazards-like 80,000 new vehicle trips a day in and out of the new development. [Julia] Vitullo Martin, a shill for development who castigated the defeat of the Kingsbridge Armory deal, scoffs at the suggestion: "When asked about Lipsky's concern that developing the area would create 80,000 new vehicle trips in Flushing every weekday, therefore clogging traffic and increasing the city's carbon footprint, Martin chuckles. "I don't believe that's worthy of a response," she says.
Interestingly, Julia is opposed to the Atlantic Yards development plan in part because of the unmitigated traffic impacts that would result. Yet laughs at the notion that Willets Point, a project 3 times larger than Atlantic Yards, would have any impact.
NoLandGrab: Regular readers of this blog will see the irony in Richard Lipsky calling anyone "a shill for development." The alleged eminent domain opponent warmly embraced just such a prescription for properties in the Atlantic Yards footprint when he was cashing Bruce Ratner's checks as an, ahem, paid consultant.
Posted by eric at February 17, 2010 11:14 AM