Bolwerk

danny burstein wrote:
> In <NemdnUfrDfswjI_VnZ2dnUVZ_vCdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Bolwerk <no@way.org2> writes:
>>> Why should the folk on Brooklyn and Queens
>>> be penalized just because folk on
>>> Staten Island allow themselves to be
>>> ripped off in this manner?
>
>> SI is ripped off by not having Subway access
>
> Staent Island has that subway (well, it's open air)
> of its very own, thank-you-very-mcuh. It even
> has its own police force. Which is more
> than the main NYS subway system can claim
> these days.

If you call that a Subway.

Either way, it's disconnected from the rest of the city.

> (Maybe someone can explain just why SIRTOA
> even exists as a separate entity, and why
> it's got its own police?)

It was historically a railroad. It probably needed to operate under
different union rules when the MTA took it over, for one. It's also
subject to FRA regulations, unlike the Subway.

The MTA wanted to merge it into the same operational unit as the
Subways, but the state legislature sat on it.