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Re:Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens by jessaustin on Sunday November 03, 2013 @11:02PM (#6666742)
...spending a lot more money on the city's unionized labor.

I must be misunderstanding something. Aren't big public works projects a pretty reliable method for achieving this goal?

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Re:Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens by fennecfoxen on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:35AM (#6669492)
Spending more per unit of labor achieves very, very little (well, except in campaign contributions from the labor union).
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Re:Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens by jessaustin on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:10PM (#6670115)
Realistically, when building a public works project in the Northeast USA, one must hire union labor. I guess I'm not understanding which you personally care about more, improving public transit or balancing public budgets. My point was just that a mayor who likes unions will likely support public transit projects, which is kind of what betterunix was talking about.
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