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F and G train riders can say Farewell and Goodbye to regular service for the next two years.
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The End Of The Line
This morning’s discussion on the subway problems just scraped the surface of another urban issue. Homelessness emerged as a topic in various news outlets and blogs in the wake of the fire at the downtown C-line station.
Listener comments are pasted below and here’s what the New York Times wrote in today's editorial (reg required):
The subway is also no place for the homeless, and it's a sign of the system's shaky state that hundreds of people have been allowed to live in its grapevine of tunnels and passageways. It is not safe for them and, as Sunday's fire makes clear, it is not safe for the millions who ride through those tunnels every single day. The city's police and homeless outreach programs need to be mobilized right away.
BL Show regular, Jeff Jarvis also weighs in today:
Rudy Guliani was the first politician in New York to have the guts to deal with this issue; other cities (I'm thinking of you, San Francisco) haven't.
And the real issue isn't homelessness. It's insanity. The laws in this country make it impossible to commit and help even the obvioulsy and often the dangerously insane.
I say that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is as much at fault as any politician, for it made the institution frightening and the people who run it bad guys.
Here are some listener comments. What do you think?
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