A media alert: I’ll be on the WCBS 2 local news again this evening during the 6 p.m. broadcast. I’ll be talking about the MTA’s decision to eliminate 1000 positions in as put of the agency’s cost-cutting measures. For more coverage on that story, check out my posts on the station agent issue and MTA CEO and Chairman Jay Walder’s statement on the personnel reductions. I’ll link to the video when CBS posts it to their website.
Update 10:15 p.m.: The video is now available right here on WCBS’ website. It’s a rather even-keeled look at the service cuts and features what I think to be the most valid need for station against. If the MTA urges us to say something if we see something yet no one is there to whom we can say something, what are we do? Still, the costs of the station agents appear to far outweigh the benefits at a time when money is more than tight for the authority.
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Ben, what is all the work going on outside of the South Ferry station? There are concrete pillars going up everywhere.
No idea. It might not be MTA-related. Someone was, at some point, supposed to landscape that area. I’ll see what I can find out.
Well I know they needed to patch up the station for leaks, but that doesn’t explain the pillars. About 90% of that area is blocked off to the public now.
Any chance you can grab me some pictures? And were you able to tell if it’s MTA work or DOT work or something else entirely? This is around the new station entrance/canopy in front of the Ferry Terminal building, right?
I’ll take a few tomorrow morning/afternoon when I go back. It is not that side-winding canopy thing because its right in front of you when you walk out of the ferry towards the subway stations.
Great. Shoot me an email at secondavenuesagas (at) gmail (dot) com tomorrow with the pictures, and I’ll ask around.
I sent the email.
I believe that this work is related to above-ground site improvements that were included in the South Ferry Station project.