Everybody okay (again)?

[Mark Kohut]

Wasn't part of the reason to keep workers for public transportation from having to go out? 


From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Everybody okay (again)?

But they also shut down all the bus routes, even in the highest-ground areas.  New Yorkers (rich and poor alike) don't drive - they really need public transportation.  The blizzard was traumatic precisely because so much of the mass transit (but not all) was knocked out. 

Laura


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>From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>Sent: Aug 30, 2011 5:25 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Everybody okay (again)?
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>On 8/30/2011 4:57 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> I'm among that small, cynical group of New Yorkers who thinks Bloomberg was still reacting to his under-reaction to this past winter's blizzard, in his decision to completely shut down the entire public transit system for two days.  It's routine for the city to shut down whole sections of various lines every single weekend for construction projects, and shutting down the lines most likely to be affected would have been sufficient.
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>I read somewhere it was a logistics problem.  You need operating tracks 
>(tunnels and above ground) separate from storage areas.  The normal 
>storage areas are in low lying parts of the city, which stood a good 
>chance of being under water.  Storage demands required use of the 
>operating tracks.  This would  imply that there is a bunch of equipment 
>not in use at any one time.  This had to be moved somewhere away from 
>the expected deluge.
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>Anyway . . .
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>> Laura
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>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Aug 28, 2011 8:55 AM
>>> To: pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Subject: Everybody okay (again)?
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>>> Let us know ...
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