Jay H Walder and the management considered the pre hurricane Irene action as a good omen and as a guiding manual in dealing with TWU Local 100 if it intends to strike in the future. Opposite to the snow blizzard disaster of 2010 that brought shame to the management coupled with the public outcry - where the equipment was strewn all over the place in addition to devastating personnel availability.
Jay H Walder can always find some brightness however bleak salvaging his public image before heading to Hong Kong was even with the public announcements of mayor Bloomberg. We were looking for those New Yorkers who rely on mass transportation - with an average weekday there are 7.5 million passengers. Therefore that means that those people just aren't going to stop looking for transportation. However shutting the system down may be annoying to New Yorkers - shutting down their transportation system across the board as a preventive measure has no bright spots. Mayor Bloomberg may have lost some of the confidence, that people just don't want to be worried or scared from a weather forecast.
It could have been prudent for Jay H Walder and the management to shut the New York City mass transportation system on an incremental basis based on a reality on the ground instead of a complete shutdown that relied on a forecast.
The city's over-reaction was clearly from Mayor Moneybags. He took so much flak being out of town during the blizzard that he made up for it this time.
ReplyDeleteOne could imagine him look out the window and hissing, "do you like THIS any better?"
And as for J.Waldo he increasingly has the wide-eyed look of the over-medicated.
What we called back in the day: "fryed" or "burnt".
Waldo looks like he is battling some serious issues.