After Chris Christie stamped out commuters dreams of a faster trip to Midtown by killing the ARC Tunnel, the Bloomberg administration pulled one of its usual gambits and floated the unusual idea of extending the already extending 7-Train from the Far West Side all the way to Secaucus. Now Joe Lhota, Governor Cuomo’s man at the MTA, says it’s never going to happen. Read More
As of today, Joe Lhota is driving the M.T.A.
The former Giuliani budget director said in a brief statement sent out to the press that his first order of business is getting a handle on the organization, no doubt so he can get to work streamlining it, as many hope he will. Read More
When Jay Walder resigned from the M.T.A. earlier this year, the transportation community was mortified. Here was their messiah leaving for Hong Kong, his work barely begun. Transit wonks could hardly fathom who could take over for Mr. Walder, continuing his formidable task of transforming the agency in ways both subtle—cutting $4 billion in waste and efficiencies—and not—underground cellphones, Oyster cards, Bus Rapid Transit.
They were looking in the wrong place. Read More
Ben reports that the Giuliani team is insisting all security expenses were perfectly appropriate, instead of explaining why they were billed to obscure city agencies.
Bernie Kerik jumped to his former boss’s defense. (The Giuliani campaign, no doubt, will be delighted.)
Former Deputy Mayor Joe Lhota insists, “This was Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg climbed into his black sport utility vehicle one Sunday in October smarting from a sartorial gaffe: The Yankees were battling the Red Sox, and he’d been caught wearing red socks.
Inside the car, Mr. Bloomberg turned to one of his top aides, Vincent La Padula. “What color socks do you have?” he Read More
