For instance, which racks did the mayor have in mind, and where would they be? If we all have our own distribution racks, and have no plans to abandon them, why is the mayor planning on bidding out a massive contract to construct new ones?Įlisabeth de Bourbon, a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation (which would handle the "street furniture" bid), answered in vague terms when asked what the mayor was talking about. And not only do we have them, but we've recently been forced to accept a series of complex and potentially very expensive city-mandated rules for their upkeep. ![]() The Times, the News and the Post (who reported that quote, incidentally), the Voice, us and dozens of others keep and maintain their own news racks on the city streets. ![]() If you're reading a hard copy of this newspaper, you've probably just used one. "Our sidewalks," Mayor Mike said, "will have new bus-stop shelters, and the resolution also allows for the introduction of new trash cans, information kiosks, public rest rooms and news racks that will generate millions of dollars in needed revenue for the city."Īfter all, the newspapers in this city already have their own news racks. In announcing the city's new billion-dollar plan to sell the franchising rights to New York's so-called "street furniture"?trash cans, bus shelters, pay toilets, what have you?Mayor Bloomberg mumbled out a sentence that should have caused every newspaper reporter in the city to start speed-dialing his editor: Is it possible that this city's newspaper reporters hate the mayor so much, they've actually stopped listening to him? Take last week, for instance.
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