…Village Voice?
Well, certainly suspicious of big development plans which would spend a ton of public money and are based on some dubious assumptions, like the $2.4 billion plan for a football stadium in Manhattan:
Whose big idea was this anyway? Who believed you could have a National Football League stadium on Manhattan’s West Side without a tailgate-party-filled parking lot? Who were the culprits who insisted?all logic and experience to the contrary?that most fans would take public transit?…
Did these folks never hear about the pie-in-the-sky schemes that sparked the city’s worst fiscal crisis back in 1975? Did they pick up none of the mutterings of the city’s real estate moguls about this waste of a great, buildable site? Had they never visited Giants Stadium on a Sunday afternoon? Never fought their way up the West Side on a busy weekend, even after West Street was expensively widened?
Who are these people?
The Voice goes on to explain just who the insiders were who tried to foist the project on the City and line their pockets at the same time.
In Charlotte there is a similar campaign underway to rid the uptown area of surface parking lots — i.e. tailgating lots — and tell Panthers fans to take buses or the coming light rail system to games. This is crazy.
Who are these people?
