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I was in London for a good period in September 2022 and the Elizabeth line is nice. Took it all the way to Canary Wharf. I wish him good luck at Amtrak. Hopefully, he gets more support than in the city.
He has a better chance at Amtrak. He had no chance at the MTA because it's a somewhat closed loop for corruption and doesn't receive any national attention.
MTA didn't let Andy Byford go; he left of his own accord after finally being fed up with Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo like his father loves sound of his own voice a bit too much. He also had a nasty habit of wanting to be the bride at every wedding or corpse at every funeral.
Instead of assigning people tasks and letting them get on; AC always had to keep butting in, supervising and back seat quarterbacking. All ways where his and AC never missed a chance to slap his name on something or otherwise take credit.
Breaking point for Andy Byford came IIRC over plans to rebuild L subway tunnels under East River damaged by hurricane Sandy. AB with MTA had a plan in place and was working on getting things together, then UP comes Andrew Cuomo with his own plan hatched out with a handpicked team from Columbia and Cornell universities.
After being humiliated one too many times Mr. Byford basically told Cuomo to eff himself and left. AB must have been grinning ear to ear when state legislators turned on Cuomo and forced his happy a$$ out of office.
There was huge dust up in media over AC/Columbia/Cornell plans for L subway tunnels before and after Byford left. Cuomo et al launched a media and public opinion campaign to say it wasn't a case of the governor and themselves effing over the MTA and Byford, just that their plan was better.
Hunter was on the board of directors at Amtrack. The swamp runs deep.
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