I don't think they do it lightly. I don't think someone is saying, 'How can we make everybody's day more miserable' They are plagued by the fact the system, in some places, hasn't been touched in decades. ... This is why you need to build a Second Avenue subway.
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Whoever gets elected, Democrat or Republican, it's the institution of the office of mayor that tends to dictate what I see as a lack of priorities.Gene Russianoff
Most people feel that there's an angry and indifferent god that runs the subway and it's sort of lashing out at you.
Gene Russianoff
I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway, ... That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from 100 million a year to 75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants.
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The only pledge I'd believe is, if either one or both of them said, 'I'm going to be mayor in 2007 and, if the MTA has a deficit, I'll fill it with city money,'
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It was shocking, in some ways, that somebody who couldn't do business with the city could do data business with the MTA,
Gene Russianoff
Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways, ... The state runs them.
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