Water main project to span four years, spurting tension Comments

Daniel

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:38:25 +0000

This is a case where people are expecting quick and vast results minus the expected hassle. Once the project is complete, this will make water delivery for the neighborhood much easier. plumber melbourne

Barbara Minsky

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:14:55 +0000

Finally, some accuracy & truth. After 9/11, people were encouraged to move here. The residential population tripled to about 28,000 people. Instead of serving them, they destroy their lives with all the construction, no schools for their kids and they make noises like it's actually "good" for them. Pipes are 100 years old or 50 years old or they don't know how old, maybe their even new, but after you destroy the ability to live with all kinds of pollution, sometimes 24 hours a day, for 3 years, and 5 minutes later, come up with an idea to further rip the neighborhood apart for another 4 years.........................what is actually motivating these people. Certainly they don't give a damm about the people living here. Give us a break and do this in 5 years. If the water mains are 50 years old, they can be 55 years old. David said it best though, there is no thought for residents, there is no thought, period.

David Colman

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:59:10 +0000

This is frankly unbelievable. After September 11th, which I can easily say without hyperbole was the worst experience I ever went through, as it probably was for everyone who was down here that day, a strange thing happened. People would ask me if I felt the attacks were personal. Personal? I wondered. I would have to be pretty delusional and self-centered to think that. How could anyone think they were personal? I chalked it up to the many ways we all react to tragedy. But this -- this feels personal. After all the truly insane degree of infra-structuring we have endured down here since September 11th, all of it engineered by people who claim to have the best interests of the area at heart, this feels like the last straw. Just as the most onerous and troublesome project of all, right in the heart of the hood comes to a close -- the grandiose, $10 billion subway entrance that MTA officials have misspent more than a decade completing at the corner of Fulton and Bway -- the idea that the same &%$#$#@ stretch of Broadway is going to be ripped up to replace water mains is just infuriating. Do the people making these incredibly stupid decisions ever come to the area? Spend the night? Take a good hard look at the kind of destruction their construction has wrought? Do they have any idea the kind of atmosphere they have created down here? It is a war zone, pure and simple. What is saddest of all is that the gallery of criminal nitwits is so broad -- greedy, thoughtless developers; inept, unprofessional, thoughtless ConEd officials; grandiose, corrupt, thoughtless MTA officials; bumbling, thoughtless city planners. There's a heaping helping of @#$%& idiot pie for everyone, and I for one am really, really tired of watching them all gobble it down like there's no tomorrow.