I used to like to play hooky in June on a warm weekday before school summer break. I would jump on a B express train bound for Brighton Beach. I’d leave early morning and go against Manhattan bound train jammed with the working class dogs. I’d get off the train and lay in sand as the beach was not crammed with people…a nice summer breeze would make me feel fine blowing through the jasmine in my mind. But now there is no express going to or from Brighton Beach because of MTA construction which will run local until fall of 2011…two summers.
With the sad MTA history this project will probably be over budget and behind schedule! As I ride the slow train going past the construction workers I see one guy doing all the work and 4 or 5 guys just standing there watching. How many times have you been on a Brighton Beach local train and it breaks down, delayed for a stalled train, a police investigation, a sick passenger, or whatever BS excuse, etc and your almost manageable commute becomes a long terrible trying ordeal and there is no announcement or sounds like Charlie Brown’s grandmother or you ask an unknowledgeable MTA employee WTF is going on and the worker does not know because of the poor MTA communication?
The overpriced MTA is quick to do one thing…point the blame finger at someone else! Only if the trains moved that fast…I got a finger to point at them. “It’s Albany’s fault”….well true Albany politics sucks….they don’t care because they don’t ride the system but they are quick to waste our tax dollars…if you pay taxes. Their cruel and unusual punishment should be to ride the sucky subway during rush hours. That lawbreaking Mayor Bloombucks illegally overturned term limits and spent 100 million dollars for a third term. Money the MTA could have used but would have misused! One of his “campaign promises” was an express train for Brooklyn…yeah who believes false statement? Ya ya he occasionally rides the subway (though he really only does so when there’s a photo-op in it for him)…during non rush hours. Hey did all you tea partiers and teetotallers vote?
