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ou won’t often see these words appear in National Review, but Mayor Bill de Blasio is absolutely right.
In the latest episode of a long-running feud between New York State’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, and New York City’s Democratic mayor — a feud that is almost entirely Cuomo’s doing — de Blasio wondered whether it was a great idea for city bridges operated by the state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to be dressed up with sets of purely decorative multicolored LED lights, a boondoggle dreamt up by Cuomo estimated to cost as much as $350 million, depending on the source.
Aware of Cuomo’s tripwire temper, de Blasio stated mildly, and unassailably, on Wednesday, “I can tell you that people that ride the subway are not interested in a light show, they’re interested in getting the trains to run on time. They’re interested in being able to get to work, and that’s what we should focus the resources on going forward.”
Cuomo, in the giddy-to-spend mode that has come to be typical of his public appearances, played up the project in January by promising to have dancing lights coordinated across eight bridges and two tunnels, as if this were something anyone but he was craving. “Literally, you’ll have bridges all across the New York City area that are choreographed — nothing like this has been done on the planet.” Yes, and no other city wraps its bridges in rhinestones either, because that would be silly.
Andrew Cuomo’s Edifice Complex
ou won’t often see these words appear in National Review, but Mayor Bill de Blasio is absolutely right.
In the latest episode of a long-running feud between New York State’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, and New York City’s Democratic mayor — a feud that is almost entirely Cuomo’s doing — de Blasio wondered whether it was a great idea for city bridges operated by the state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to be dressed up with sets of purely decorative multicolored LED lights, a boondoggle dreamt up by Cuomo estimated to cost as much as $350 million, depending on the source.
Aware of Cuomo’s tripwire temper, de Blasio stated mildly, and unassailably, on Wednesday, “I can tell you that people that ride the subway are not interested in a light show, they’re interested in getting the trains to run on time. They’re interested in being able to get to work, and that’s what we should focus the resources on going forward.”
Cuomo, in the giddy-to-spend mode that has come to be typical of his public appearances, played up the project in January by promising to have dancing lights coordinated across eight bridges and two tunnels, as if this were something anyone but he was craving. “Literally, you’ll have bridges all across the New York City area that are choreographed — nothing like this has been done on the planet.” Yes, and no other city wraps its bridges in rhinestones either, because that would be silly.
Andrew Cuomo’s Edifice Complex
