Gothamist: Know-It-All Mayor B Gets Huffy Over School Buses

mike

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:39:30 -0500

this azz thinks he knows it all wont pay nypd a decent salary but its okay to pay a gardener 42,000 a year but a rookie starts at 32 ,000 what the fuck he doesnt care about the working person hes a bitch know it all who hasnt given shit to the city workers .....people are realizing hes a smug azz .

kaci

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:05:15 -0500

This is winter, what a stupid time to reorganize buses for school kids. This is not a rural or suburban system where schools and students are local and all go to the same school with low traffic routes. All the experience in the world in other locales with school transit will not help in NYC... diff place/ diff issues! These are elementary school kids, middle school and above get train/bus passes. The death of western civ is the notion "efficiencey" and "cost" in public works. It is about school bus SERVICE. Get the freakin' JOB done....Bloomie. Get the kids to school and home promptly!

Corpus

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:05:05 -0500

If this debacle had occurred as the result of someone else's actions, say an illegal strike or a breach of contract, Bloomberg and Klein would be screaming irresponsibility, incompetence and lawsuit. Instead they are defending shelling out $16 million for the advice that led to the cutbacks.

bklynd

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:35:25 -0500

"You're quoting people who have no experience in doing anything" Seems to me that using a consulting firm is not far from listening to someone like Gotbaum. If Gotbaum mouths off and is ineffective, there is no consequence - the silliness of her job stems from the fact that she's not responsible for anything. When the consulting firm does a shitty job, what's the consequence? I'm sure they got paid all the same.

Corpus

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:05:26 -0500

Bloom, Of course it's the job of the City to take care of the kids, especially when it comes to schooling. There is a web of laws that establish that fact. Society has an interest in preventing ignoramuses like you so public schooling is mandated and that includes getting the children safely to school.

long live dinkins

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:57:34 -0500

why isn't it the city's job to provide schooling? Why is this city any different than any other major city? Just because your mayor is so out of shape that dinkins will out live him. By the way did you see this? go to the daily news site. Feds shoot down Mike's gun suit BY MICHAEL SAUL DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF The federal government will not file criminal charges against any of the 15 out-of-state gun dealers accused by Mayor Bloomberg in a federal lawsuit of selling guns illegally, the Daily News has learned.

huh?

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:52:48 -0500

Bloom - you're an idiot. people have to work - especially here. most kids are coming from working families who don't have the time to escort their kids to school.

Bloom

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:40:15 -0500

Parents should take care of their kids. It's not the city's job to take care of the kids. People want better schools, so Bloom made the buses more efficient. People should stop bitching and let Mike do what he does best: cut the fat. Rudy left the city better than Dinkins; and Mayor Mike has actually IMPROVED on that. Stop bitching.

oh, well okay

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:23:38 -0500

"We had to change the routes and the changes, while appalling for some of the children, were bound to be messy" That doesn't mean that children living and attending school in Manhattan should have to go home through Roosevelt Island, or that children going from the same apartment to the same school should be on different routes, or that children should be dropped off at school before the building is open, or that children should miss forty five minutes of class time every day because their bus gets them there that late. Maybe we did have to change the routes, but the people who made the new ones obviously did not do a good job. The only solution IS to get rid of these current routes, maybe go back to the old ones, until a better overall route system can be fleshed out.

smitty

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:18:01 -0500

yeah she did Hamil, weird.

Tim N.

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:11:48 -0500

Mayor Bling really has to stop using Spitzer's podium. Hey, Mike... stand up and let the people see ya! Oh, sorry...

Gari N. Corp

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:02:13 -0500

True, I should have addressed the substance of the issue, but my hatred for Gotbaum, and her ill-informed criticisms, got the better of me. The timing of the change was not great, but there's no denying the fact that this was a hideously complicated job, taking into account changing populations, and different school compositions. The move was also pretty well-trailed, since while I'm not even a parent I've been pretty aware its going down. No question that Bloomberg is cranky and peevish, a man with dictatorial instincts and little tolerance for criticism. But what the man was saying was valid. We had to change the routes and the changes, while appalling for some of the children, were bound to be messy. Gotbaum's got nothing to offer but "scrap the plan".

hamil1

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:53:22 -0500

Did Anna Nicole smit die?

too scoops

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:52:50 -0500

And what does that have to do with the botched up school bus routes leaving children out in the coldest week of the year?

Bubba

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:49:11 -0500

Why doesn't Bloomberg implore us to eat cake???

Gari N. Corp

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:46:49 -0500

By a man's enemies shall you know him, and Betsy Gotbaum is one of the most useless people to ever draw a city salary. She really doesn't have any idea what she's talking about, beyond staying in with the Democratic base till the next primary day. I mean, she makes Mark Green look humble yet effective.

sayin'

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:03:57 -0500

Bloomberg really looks dickish when they show this sound bite. He almost comes off as Dubya-esque. Sorry people don't like the shitty job your cronies did, jackass.