re: #347 lawhawk

I know that the investigations by prosecutors is continuing, but Holloran’s position is looking increasingly dubious. He was supposed to go before one of the panels last week, but that had to be canceled because of last week’s snowstorm. The investigators are finding it extremely difficult to track down anyone who can corroborate the claims that the unions were engaged in some form of a work action.

To me, the city’s poor reaction to the Boxing Day Blizzard was the result of the singular failure to declare a snow emergency by Bloomberg that would have let the city and all the relevant agencies know that they had to gear up in a serious way to deal with the snow and to get their equipment in place to deal with the impending storm. That failure led to a sequential failure to deal with primary roads that were clogged with snow and that led to secondary and tertiary roads not being cleared at all for days on end. The MTA likewise didn’t raise its alert level in a timely fashion and that led to a near complete shutdown of its rail, subway, and bus service for the entire region.

It was certainly a foul-up, but the conspiracy BS will be remembered while the facts will show up during the next heat-wave.