Five years ahead of schedule. $195 million under budget.
Since October 2023, crews replaced 196 bridge structures and more than 12,600 feet of railroad along the 133-year-old Park Avenue Viaduct—all over 28 tightly coordinated weekends while maintaining full Metro-North service.
The work took place along a critical corridor carrying 98% of Metro-North trains—approximately 750 trains and 260,000 passengers every day.
With the major structural replacement now complete, we asked the project lead how the MTA delivered the work faster and for less without disrupting service.
In 2022, I took a lot of shit from people who thought we were allies over opposing progressive insanity by arguing against their conspiratorial nonsense about Ukraine.
Somehow, 4 years later some of those people are starting to wake up to reality. That's fantastic.
I learned a lot from that time. I still remember a TV presenter/influencer calling me up when the war broke out. "I don't know anything about Ukraine," he said. He asked me why it was happening and what's driving it. I spent a good half an hour explaining. He nodded along and said "that makes so much sense".
Then 3 days later, some people on his "team" suddenly decided that the cool kids all think Ukraine = bad.
The guy who had called me immediately began repeating their nonsense on X with the confidence of a career Eastern European military analyst.
A few months later, a British influencer *living in Britain* who knew nothing about the war started tweeting shit like "No more of our dollars for Ukraine, amIrite guys?" with a photo of her in a miniskirt.
My point is, a lot of the things people say have nothing to do with an informed opinion. That's why the bullshit comes in waves. A small number of people start saying something and then a LOT of people realise that's where the addictive combination of money and attention is. So they smash that Ukraine button like a baboon in an experiment where he gets a grape every time.
Then another small group of people start saying the next thing. And the baboons all run over to that button and start smashing it.
It was a big wake-up call for me.
Most of what you watch, read and hear is just people who are good at talking saying shit someone else told them that they think is in their interest to say.
And I'm not even having a go at those people. Honestly, the fact that people are capable of changing their mind eventually is a very good thing.
Мне очень хочется чтобы все мечети в Берлине сейчас вывесили лгбт флаги и показали солидарность с европейскими ценностями. И отделили себя от того что произошло сегодня ночью.
@Freedomalternat Next we need a world wide push to pressure china into paying reparations for lost wages and damages. I would like a Chinese female model wife for my trouble reparations.
My first employer said get an experimental vaccine, or you’re fired.
I fought months refusing, not knowing my future.
They covid tested me daily and forced a mask only on my face.
I wasn’t granted the 5th Amendment. It was show your vaccine card or Fauci fired you.
Evil man.