NY Wheel project indefinitely delayed after firing contractor
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silive.comPosted Jul 13, 2017, 4:01 PM UTC
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silive.comThank God. This whole idea is horrendous. Strip mall is bad enough. Add in an giant wheel that will be a rust bucket in a few years and it's only worse.
Nothing will ever do well there as long as jersey street is only a quarter. Mile away
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What we need is as concerted an effort of investment in precisely that community as there has been previously/presently divestment and disenfranchisement.
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But the wheel isn't investing in that community. It's investing on the fringes of that community. If anything the wheel makes things worse for that community
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Oh I totally agree. I was responding to the portion of your previous comment about Jersey Street. Often people bring it up as if it's an unsolvable blight, without realizing it is the result of not only the legacy of systemic racism, but the maintenance of that system to this day.
Put briefly, Jersey Street and other areas of concentrated poverty aren't to be avoided by investment but sought out and lifted up.
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i disagree on it being the result of racism. i know there was recently an article by some ex atten island miltary major stating as such but he failed to mention a great many things.
areas we now consider the ghetto or the projects were originally not filled with minorities. and the neighborhoods they were put in were majority white at the time of the building of said projects.
even if you believe that minorities are funneled to these areas when it comes to purchasing real estate that goes counteractive to the racism claim as they are being given affordable housing on the taxpayer dime. and if affordable housing is racist then why is it something the advocates clamor for all the time in current times?
if one is to argue that the whites left these areas due to racism because minorities were moving in, then that is something i will not argue against. however nobody forced the minorities to move there. they werent bussed in and forced to stay. in an attempt to keep them segregated.
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Oh, of course. The people that live on Jersey street rape and murder but its still the white man's fault. Fuck you. Anyone's fucking fault except the perpetrators. And then you wonder why Trump is in office, its because of people like you.
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I guaranteed many people this wouldn't be completed. I win.
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I wonder if that would have been enough money to just build a rail bridge or tunnel directly to Manhattan, I think that would do the most to improve business development on the island.
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The last time a subway tunnel to Manhattan was proposed, the ballpark estimate was something like $5B
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Okay, yeah that is a lot more than the $600 mil sunk into this thing. I don't have any better ideas than this stupid wheel then. A Formula One racetrack?
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Between this, the stop-work order on the outlets, and the near-total non-committal on transportation improvements by everyone involved, how can one have faith in these projects anymore?
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I might be one of the few people who thought the wheel was a good idea. Thousands of tourists take that ferry over every single day of the year, when they get to SI they literally make a U-turn and go right back. I think a good majority of these tourists would certainly make a stop and ride the wheel. Maybe get an ice cream or lunch. But shop at an outlet mall? Attend a minor league baseball game? Hell no... those were bad plays.
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There are millions of taxpayer dollars on the line here. I hope we didn't just get a mall and a disgusting parking garage out of the deal.
I saw this coming a mile away, but not for nothing, this was a terrible idea to begin with. That money originally could have been put towards more needed things rather than a giant ferris wheel that in ten years would probably be a mess anyway.