Gothamist: MTA Board Member: "Why Should I Ride and Inconvenience Myself When I Can Ride in a Car?"

GM

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:16:55 -0500

They get bitter, they cling to cars or free MTA passes or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-oversight sentiment or anti-commuter sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations

Jerky

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:24:04 -0500

"David Mack". Can you say first-class asshole?? Or loser who thinks he's important, because his cock is only 2 inches long??

sonyactivision

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:06:26 -0500

Of course he needs a car. If he rode the rails, someone would recognize him and shove him off the platform onto the tracks. It's "administrative survival".

Anna_Merkin

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:59:27 -0500

Jacque, you're absolutely right about that. Only rubes in the "working class" cling to those ridiculous notions of self-sacrifice and getting no more than one works for...this is a perfect example of that.

glennQNYC

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:56:40 -0500

I like the idea in post #12. Seems like a simple, logical solution. Is there any doubt the same shit would be going on if the congestion tax ever was implemented?

Spiritof76

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:33:19 -0500

There's a word for people like Mack: "asshole."

poopmast

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:48:47 -0500

They should make this guy ride the G train for a month. He just might kill himself.

jaycjay

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:58:02 -0500

"I'm sure he wacks-off to those thoughts every time he rides his nice chauffeured car to the MTA office." Which, I'm sure, is pretty rarely.

schadenfreudian mensch

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:44:54 -0500

@dr zippy For the prestige and power my boy. In the end, isn't that what's it all about. Bragging rights to all the other millionaires he hobnobs. You have control over the largest mass transit system in the world with a budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars and the fate on the cost of a ride on 8 million people. I'm sure he wacks-off to those thoughts every time he rides his nice chauffeured car to the MTA office.

ianmac47

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:39:52 -0500

So how about taking away the free EZPass and giving them metro cards.

WesleySnipesAlot

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:38:32 -0500

Awesome! thanks Zodak. I actually really dig his sound.

AHT

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:31:55 -0500

I'm not sure how this guy can "see something, say something" with his head that far up his ass.

zodak

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:02:56 -0500

WesleySnipesAlot: "the guy with the raspy voice and electric guitar/amp strapped to himself" has a myspace page.

dr zippy

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:37:42 -0500

With an attitude like that why would Mack want to be on the MTA board?

Jerk Store

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:35:52 -0500

"Why should I ride [the train] and inconvenience myself when I can ride in a car?" THIS is a guy who is one of the most powerful figures in NYC-area mass transit? Shocking. And yet, somehow, totally expected too.

Brouhaha

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:31:30 -0500

"Why should I ride [the train] and inconvenience myself when I can ride in a car?" asked Mack... Hey, those aren't your only choices... Get a scooter. :-)

smokedgouda

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:26:49 -0500

An article said that this guy Mack has 6 (yes, six) free easypasses registered to him. Unbelievable. His comments are arrogant and conceited. If he is a board member I guess contempt is all the leadership at the MTA have for the public.

David McCaffredy

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:09:10 -0500

Hear hear to #1.

WesleySnipesAlot

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:07:15 -0500

I vote Sonny Page and the guy with the raspy voice and electric guitar/amp strapped to himself as F train delegates for the MTA board. I say throw these rich cocksuckers out, and the people elect representatives from each subway line based on ridership numbers! direct democracy is the only way!

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:06:30 -0500

only suckers pay for commutation costs, I'll include meals in there too. the rich will not lay a dime of their own money into anything if they can get away with it.

Bubba

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:01:53 -0500

David Mack has no business being on the MTA 's board. How about getting real mass transit users to serve on the board???