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> It actually was a coincidence, as the practices leading inevitably to the current situation have been going on for decades. It's true that the corruption wit
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> It actually was a coincidence, as the practices leading inevitably to the current situation have been going on for decades.
It's true that the corruption within the MTA and TWU have been around for decades, but it's not true at all that it's a coincidence that everything started to go downhill as soon as Cuomo took office.
Cuomo literally does not believe that it is his job to oversee a statewide agency, despite the fact that every other governor - including his own father, when his father was governor - have taken on this responsibility.
Unsurprisingly, when the public official in charge absolves themselves of responsibility for holding the MTA and TWU accountable, things fall apart pretty quickly.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoThere’s a reason Cynthia Nixon’s campaign emphasized the subway: Cuomo was uninterested in maintaining it, aside from scant, hollow PR moments.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> Cuomo was uninterested in maintaining it, aside from scant, hollow PR moments. Cuomo even deigned to make hollow PR statements about the subway to the press? I must have missed those. I'm being flippant, but not without reason: Cuomo has taken the subway exactly twice in the last decade, went out of his way not to take public transit when running for re-election (lest it be interpreted as him admitting responsibility for the system), and undermined Andy Byford at the one job he ostensibly hired him to do in the first place. It's not that Cuomo is all talk and no action. When it comes to public transit, he isn't even "talk". He's just completely absentee, and downright proud of it.