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Hubris: developer touts 'public benefit' of new infrastructure, though railyard was downsized
2015-11-28 15:07:15| Railroads - Topix.net
The 11/27/15 tweet below from Pacific Park Brooklyn represents remarkable hubris: "Investing in complicated #infrastructure makes for the biggest public benefit." Do keep in mind that the 2005 deal to build a modernized replacement Vanderbilt Yard to store and service Long Island Rail Road trains was revised, at Forest City Ratner's request, in 2009, and accepted by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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