Under the headline Advocates Pushing for Bike Path Over Verrazano Bridge DNAinfo Reporter/Producer, Nicholas Rizzi, writes from - STATEN ISLAND — A transit advocacy group wants tourists and others in the borough to be able to bike or walk across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in a contentious push to make one of the longest spans in the world more pedestrian friendly.
So with typical, objective, reportorial finesse a bone is thrown midst the pack to argue over where there are many reasons to not correct the wrong thing that was done in the first place. Simply put in Robert Caro' s The Power Broker the transportation czar Robert Moses, under whom the Verrazano was built, was ingrained with certain prejudices supposedly more common to his era than to ours. It's debated how accurate this point of Mr. Caro's was, but in designing the highways to reach the park system, Mr. Moses created on Long Island, he neglected, or certainly, possibly built overpasses under which buses could not travel thereby limiting the system to passenger cars. Mr. Caro couldn't help but predictably question that this was a prejudiced move to keep the lower economic status-ed blacks away from the white dominated summer paradises. Sure Robert Caro admits that's quite possibly not the full truth, but New York's flawed Moses was certainly prejudiced in the automobiles favor. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was built without a walk-way and I have walked the walkway he built into his previous spectacular Triborough (Robert F. Kennedy, Bobby) Bridge and I have never been so scared walking anywhere on this planet my entire life. A joke of a walkway right next to traffic, and when not, you're a story above as if dangling for your life. i just wanted down. So that's the background? Since Robert Moses burned our bridges to a sane traveling future, we should too?
Mr. Rizzi continues - The Verrazano bridge bike path is part of the group's proposed Harbor Ring — a 50-mile route for walkers and bicyclists that connects the waterfronts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Islandand parts of New Jersey. Dave Abraham, of Transportation Alternatives, is quoted saying, "It is now a bridge that lacks access for all users. The need is still very much there. Imagine being able to avoid the $12 or $15 toll and just having a pleasant bicycle route to go back and forth."
Perhaps TA missed some politicians murmuring last year that they'd like to charge everyone for crossing the Queensborough Bridge. You can feel it can't you? Paying to carry yourself across a refurbished Verrazano Bridge. Socialism must be paid for like any other capitalist enterprise. No?
Then The Five Boro Bike Tour is praised as the great photo-op when closed to car traffic, while - The MTA, which manages the bridge, said it has no plans for such a project or money allocated for it, and that the agency is instead focused on an effort to upgrade the upper level of the bridge. Judie Glave, a spokeswoman for the MTA, said, "While we understand why many people would like to see a bicycle and pedestrian path across the Verrazano Bridge, we are currently focusing on a multi-year effort to replace and upgrade the entire upper level of the nearly 48-year-old bridge"
With solar panels and green space soil for MTA heads to be further planted in the sand?
And of course the Staten Island AdvancereportedStaten Island Borough President James Molinaro called the idea "ridiculous" and a waste of money. "I think it's absolutely ridiculous, across the Verrazano Bridge," Molinaro told the Advance. "It doesn't make sense. How many people would use it? It's got to be worth the effort and the cost, for everything you do."
Yet it would have been worth it to us for all these many years if Moses had bothered to care for more than the affluent driving caste. Obviously his park system is shared by everyone, who can get there, now. Be that as it may, it seems the long-time S.I. King Molinaro probably never met a chauffeured limousine he didn't love with all his heart. No?
Plus DNAinfo printed - Molinaro did not respond to a request for comments for their article.
No kidding.
While TA's - Abraham countered that except for the bridge path, the majority of the Harbor Ring route would not be that large and expensive of a project. Nearly 28 miles of the route is already in place, and the majority of work for it would involve putting up signs, benches or painted lines, which Abraham expects to be implemented piecemeal. It's going to take years, maybe decades, for it to be fully realized," Abraham said. Transportation Alternatives has not designed or planned how the walkway would be put into place on the bridge, but is simply trying to build support for the idea. He added that the bridge, which opened in 1964, was originally mapped for pedestrian and bicycle use, and engineers have told him the original plans may still be used. "It is most definitely feasible to do," Abraham said. "Maybe those plans need to be adjusted or changed entirely, [but] it does seem like it's still very much a possibility. We don't want to advocate for an idea that's too much of a pipe dream." The original mapping would put the bike path on the outer-edge of both sides of the bridge near the cables. While agreeing the cost would be great, Abraham believes the path would be worth it in the end. "I really think the payoff would be tremendous," he said. "We have all these gems that a connected Harbor Ring could give better access. It would just continue to pay off in the future." Abraham wasn't sure why the walkway was never installed when the bridge was originally built, but heard rumors that notorious urban planner Robert Moses feared suicide attempts on the bridge.
DNAinfo includes more coverage of the suicide issue.
And TA is currently taking to the crowd-funding website Indiegogo to raise funds to print maps of the proposed Harbor Ring in an attempt drum up support.
Governor Upstate (manipulated) Madness resents success came from, and to, New York City at all? I hate to admit it. But on the surface, that manipulated consciousness of something's being deprived upstate? Bringing down Cuomo? Actual appearance of scam. She, appearance of not a threat as VICE as political operations habitually conceive.
I personally don't like former Governor Cuomo. But to think? Oh good job hatcheting down another one? Not completely visibly connecting the dots for the driven assemblage (New York State), given the right to vote on BIG STALLS.
Coercing friends. Fabulous. A conspiracy of individuals designed to lay blame on an economy that can't survive without burning oil. Scapegoat blaming scapegoat is a hell of a lot worse than even two wrongs don't make a right. Governor?
So governor, why not just conspire to stop PRETENDING it's not a sin destroying the EARTH from within?
Dictators anyone around the globe thrilled with skimming just for fun. Governor. Fix that stadium you have or consider history documents loser now with the Mar-a-Lago inmate. Killing Mass Transit. If you're not ashamed, IMPEACH.
Pillaging the poor telling everyone oh no we ripped each others' percentages off too much again. The entire country has lost the ability to finance retirement on re-selling their houses. Or at least those lucky enough to have rising percentages demand demeaned mediocrity.
Both Republicans and The Democratic Party sell their friendships as pretending socialism and capitalism are enemies. Knowing how to spend money kept from BLACKS for generations actually. Why obvious 125th is denied being a hub again. By Racist Apologists. Descended from New York City's Race War Rioters pushed on by racist friends. What's up publicly exposed liars?
And getting away with what Political Operatives can? Letitia James is more than powerful enough to take over when what New York's always needed was a governor with real legalese teeth. Most likely why tycoon George Pataki was so appealing. Know what? I didn't like naming the Tappan Zee for Mario Cuomo. Dare you to take that name down in front of me before that disgrace to history.
It is not good moving up and muddling over what Letitia James is capable of with ten more years experience with what malfeasance, has already done, before becoming governor? And guess what? If she can't find why the governor and her husband aren't being prosecuted for manipulating the state into shallow purposes giving up on a fundamental state project, then what? HOCHUL PREFERS THE BUS.
I'd really prefer Governor Hochul kept her office and shut down the HOAX THE ECONOMY survives burning oil! ! ! !
Citizens should want THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO EXPLAIN everything to us.
Go ahead? Hide away and not face dishonor too, Governor Kathy (why no middle name?) Hochul. You czarish despot of deliverance to Wall Street that doesn't live anywhere actually anymore as if on the National Argentine Program of Surfing The World on The Dollar while driving the poor peso underground. As Marlon Brando says, "the horror."
Bottom line as fast as possible. OBVIOUSLY I'd prefer ten years just disappeared and the State Attorney General installed as the best trained Governor we ever had. Confronted with pivoting themselves in a political field outright owned by despicable people. Not that Governor What's His Name shouldn't have been punished for being too publicly friendly with people. But there's been a Republican Trap, you know. The men don't think and can't talk, except repeat jargon. The women pretend they could be coaxed in friendly atmosphere. Women more ruthless than men possibly.
Cuomo? Formerly married to a Kennedy and allowed to live. Bad people's finger prints are all over history. Get yours off your positioning Governor Or, or imprison me. If you don't believe the people cornering THAT Governor Hochul into destroying the very nature of economic self-reward? You're lying to yourselves as their MONEY has trained you to believe. Most know how money works, now recognize people who worship it want the future desired cheating each other with money that's nowhere near circulating as these liars Nancy and Ronnie Reagan displayed themselves as exemplars of.
Hochul obviously pitched as not a political threat, however stationed for the move they saw so easy in their grasp. Descended from pushing cab drivers to destroy a planned train to La Guardia. Little fixes around. But getting close to the real move from Kennedy past La Guardia to the 125th Street hub? Publicity is controlled so the state doesn't know. They have upstate votes defeating the city while Hochul's cronies STOLE New York's future away. The pinheads have invested money all over the world for people to fly around and into cities without managing anything but the tourist indifference that Kathy Hochul applied to the Governorship of New York no matter where she has her illustriousness magnificently treated today. Notice the handlers just love her behind a podium on TV mocking us with a hammed up ceremonial display of pretend integrity.
Seriously doubt it all the Arabs fault the Sahara's not solar paneled. Women need to hold high offices and not head dress bimbos as pictured below. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Well guess what? The people so GOD damned satisfied getting away with ruining New York Economics can just FACE IT.
👎Proof American Success Can Work Without A Dime Consumed on College Education and HISTORY writes itself. Claimed on a NJ Business Show we'd always have inflation as if it's hopeless money works for everbody. But then that was the message Business Paid For and I suggest be put to rest as we've known generations.👎
UNIONS already established minimum standards, so for both sides to pay for lawyers is legal mismanagement. Everyone nicely primed to disbar historically alongside Roy Cohn? Everyone?
DON'T FORGET GEORGE FLOYDFootage was good. Police Motorcycles entering and fine staged confrontation. A period of time managed for an expression of the grievances in broad statements at 23:00.
Where a few days ago the AFTRA striking writers were a small portioned placement on half the broad sidewalk unable to specifically seen exactly what faceless entity positioned themselves with luxury's fine bureaucratic buildings.
Like when Gays or anyone protests against walled-off indifferently placed interests. The Giuliani Administration created pens for holding their calculated pictured enemies during their New York Presidential Convention hurricane crossed Central Florida not once but back-and-forth. In fact violent theatrical demonstrations were already accomplished in Times Squareand legally processed as squared away. So writers aren't fools. Walk the entire block and what? They'd have confronted the tourists formed into lines under the big screens telling them it's all imagery and who gives a dman really what's designed. We can pay for anything and make it worth virtually nothing. A is America and I doubt we're meant to notaries above all this GOD DAMNED DOUBT the idiots who managed themselves into control can't just manage themselves out. GUESS WHO SAVED ALL THE GOD DAMNED MONEY?
Mr. Kuby as is obvious, lawyers know scheming reaches a point, that no matter how dramatic, a judge is in on approving the motion's invalidity too. Chicago 8's BlackMan chained for being aggressively withheld for centuries and reacting naturally? You betcha. Bunch of hippies dramatized an older generation forced to not give up their hypocrites' clothes. Appointing that last enshrined nakedly self-indulgent barbarous queen King Dump.
So with typical, objective, reportorial finesse a bone is thrown midst the pack to argue over where there are many reasons to not correct the wrong thing that was done in the first place. Simply put in Robert Caro' s The Power Broker the transportation czar Robert Moses, under whom the Verrazano was built, was ingrained with certain prejudices supposedly more common to his era than to ours. It's debated how accurate this point of Mr. Caro's was, but in designing the highways to reach the park system, Mr. Moses created on Long Island, he neglected, or certainly, possibly built overpasses under which buses could not travel thereby limiting the system to passenger cars. Mr. Caro couldn't help but predictably question that this was a prejudiced move to keep the lower economic status-ed blacks away from the white dominated summer paradises. Sure Robert Caro admits that's quite possibly not the full truth, but New York's flawed Moses was certainly prejudiced in the automobiles favor. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was built without a walk-way and I have walked the walkway he built into his previous spectacular Triborough (Robert F. Kennedy, Bobby) Bridge and I have never been so scared walking anywhere on this planet my entire life. A joke of a walkway right next to traffic, and when not, you're a story above as if dangling for your life. i just wanted down. So that's the background? Since Robert Moses burned our bridges to a sane traveling future, we should too?
And of course the Staten Island Advance reported Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro called the idea "ridiculous" and a waste of money. "I think it's absolutely ridiculous, across the Verrazano Bridge," Molinaro told the Advance. "It doesn't make sense. How many people would use it? It's got to be worth the effort and the cost, for everything you do."
Plus DNAinfo printed - Molinaro did not respond to a request for comments for their article.
