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Shelly Silver Saves a Bus Route

By Roy Edroso Fri., May 22 2009 at 5:44 PM
Categories: Albany, Featured, Transportation
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Let's end this week -- and begin a long weekend of radio near-silence -- with a story about the thing that makes New York great: cronyism! Eight Manhattan bus lines were slated for service changes this weekend, due to changes in traffic patterns from the planned Broadway traffic re-route. One of the lines slated for changes was the M6 bus -- in fact, the M6 was going to be eliminated entirely. But that bus runs through assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's district and serves many voters. Silver sent a letter to MTA chairman H. Dale Hemmerdinger and, the Times reports. problem solved: the M6 line stays with modest route changes. Don't try this in Canarsie, folks -- you probably won't get the same treatment.

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