Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff is staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, a New York City-based public transport advocacy group that focuses primarily on subway and bus services run by New York City Transit. At the same time, Russianoff has also served as a government reform advocate for NYPIRG...
community concerns consultant forward push technical troubling wisdom
It's just troubling that they would try to push it forward when there are technical concerns, community concerns and their own consultant is questioning the wisdom of it.
fare freddy hurt tricky
It's probably a tricky one for Freddy because it's really his constituents that are the most hurt by a fare hike.
authority choice definitely delays extra good longer means people says transit
For many people they don't have a choice. They take the 4 and the 5 and they have to go through Midtown. If you can take the local, the No. 6, that's a good idea and you definitely have to give yourself extra time. The Transit Authority says there'll be delays of 10 minutes, which always means to me that it will be a lot longer than that.
For everyone, it was a challenge. For many people, it was a hardship. They couldn't get to a doctor's appointment, they couldn't get to the office.
business city data somebody
It was shocking, in some ways, that somebody who couldn't do business with the city could do data business with the MTA,
million spent staggering
It was staggering that he's already spent $47 million to get elected.
arrival delay enjoyed information riders systems time timely
It's about time that riders here enjoyed the same timely arrival and delay information that systems around the world have had for years.
buses clearly labor management neither public strike sympathy winners
Before the strike, there was considerable sympathy for the workers, but once the strike began, that clearly changed. The real winners are neither labor or management but the public that desperately wanted their subways and buses back.
difference good stations step wire
We thought it was a good first step to wire the stations. There is a big difference between the stations and trains.
hearts mayors runs state time
Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways. The state runs them.
believe both city either fill mayor pledge
The only pledge I'd believe is, if either one or both of them said, 'I'm going to be mayor in 2007 and, if the MTA has a deficit, I'll fill it with city money,'
asking billions both keeps mind wind york
Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.
clearly december grudge near personal
He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.
avenue build fact second touched
I don't think they do it lightly. I don't think someone is saying, 'How can we make everybody's day more miserable?' They are plagued by the fact the system, in some places, hasn't been touched in decades. ... This is why you need to build a Second Avenue subway.