Work begins on nation's largest mass transit project

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

It took about 20 or 30 years to build the WTC. Even if they hadn't had a fiasco over the site planning - construction wouldn't be very far along.

well we need australian engineers and construction crew.... get that ####### done over a weekend with enough time left over to down a brewski

(couldn't resist)

[Heracles 417]

It took about 20 or 30 years to build the WTC. Even if they hadn't had a fiasco over the site planning - construction wouldn't be very far along.

Yeah with Union labor of NYC I am not surprised. It wiould probably take a week to cleen a street there. They are building stuff around the world that make NYC buildings look like lego and they are only taking a few years. That was an opportunity to show the world what America is made of and it has been wasted thanks to moronic bureaucracy over there.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Never mind - took 6 years to build (way off in my estimate there).

[Heracles 417]

It took about 20 or 30 years to build the WTC. Even if they hadn't had a fiasco over the site planning - construction wouldn't be very far along.

well we need australian engineers and construction crew.... get that ####### done over a weekend with enough time left over to down a brewski

(couldn't resist)

Two tallest residential buildings in the world are located there.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

It took about 20 or 30 years to build the WTC. Even if they hadn't had a fiasco over the site planning - construction wouldn't be very far along.

well we need australian engineers and construction crew.... get that ####### done over a weekend with enough time left over to down a brewski

(couldn't resist)

Two tallest residential buildings in the world are located there.

yeah man u guys rock

[Heracles 417]

Never mind - took 6 years to build (way off in my estimate there).

Probably why it feel like a house of cards. They cannot even build ###### right there.

yeah man u guys rock

I never said we did. You just cannot take that there are others out there doing things much better than you.

You better get used to being second. Or in reality 27th or something along those lines.

But hey don't you have a rights issue to worry about. Seems to have consumed the last 40 years.

We just pulled a Toyota and have come ahead. As has half the world actually.

Edited June 9, 2009 by Constellation

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I don't want us to be first. Maybe people like you will stop moving here.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

NYC must have some very lax construction rules - midtown is always being dug up or whole city blocks put under scaffolding for no obvious reason. Accidents are also pretty common - excluding extreme stuff like the crane collapses (which was the fault of dodgy/non-existent inspections), but you get used to seeing people at the top of scaffolding without safety harnesses or construction crews dumping masonry out of 4 floor windows.

They seem to have zero regard for public safety - you see workmen wearing dustmasks as clouds of dust and who knows what billow out of doorways; and a guy wearing ear-defenders while using a jackhammer in the middle of a heavily trafficked public street. Nice for the guy - but not great for everyone else.

Edited June 9, 2009 by Private Pike

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I almost never go to NYC if I can help it

[Heracles 417]

I don't want us to be first. Maybe people like you will stop moving here.

Great response. If jersey represented America, I would be out of here faster than Madoff got rid of his billions.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I almost never go to NYC if I can help it

They do some very weird construction projects in midtown - there's always some sort of work being done in the 1 mile radius of where I work - has been ever since we moved here.

[AlHayatZween 2]

True...

My mister is working in construction here... They make all the non-union guys do crazy stuff. People get hurt all the time.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I don't want us to be first. Maybe people like you will stop moving here.

Great response. If jersey represented America, I would be out of here faster than Madoff got rid of his billions.

You could never afford to live here with your job selling trinkets at the airport.

[Heracles 417]

NYC must have some very lax construction rules - midtown is always being dug up or whole city blocks put under scaffolding for no obvious reason. Accidents are also pretty common - excluding extreme stuff like the crane collapses (which was the fault of dodgy/non-existent inspections), but you get used to seeing people at the top of scaffolding without safety harnesses or construction crews dumping masonry out of 4 floor windows.

They seem to have zero regard for public safety - you see workmen wearing dustmasks as clouds of dust and who knows what billow out of doorways; and a guy wearing ear-defenders while using a jackhammer in the middle of a heavily trafficked public street. Nice for the guy - but not great for everyone else.

That is how the unions work there. They create artificial work and stretch jobs out as long as possible to keep their bugs employed.

[AlHayatZween 2]

I almost never go to NYC if I can help it

Will you come into the city before i move away to red-state America? i was thinking we can throw a party on MaWilson's terrace, and drink wine and burn mummies.