NYC PE like FDNY or NYPD as in SAFETY First = infrastructure!!!

Say what?


Yes, a NYC engineer with PE after his or her name standing for professional engineer in theory is like an NYPD or FDNY officer in that they put their lives on the line caring about the safety of the people before their own selves! Yes, this is true!


How many blog postings have I done on the city wide concerns regarding infrastructure and YouTubes? So many I can't keep track.



I confronted Dan Doctoroff via emails warning him he and Bloomberg were jeopardizing the safety of the people and that they would leave this city in a great mess when they left. Doctoroff had some woman from DEP directly to their website and assure me everything was okay and than a month or so later the City of New York experience the steam pipe explosion that looked like the terror attack.


You see Bloomberg pushed a reckless tsunami of community crushing development on old New York's infrastructure and finally after way to many construction related accidents that took lives and injured people we finally had the mayor numbly repeating our mantra "Safety First" but of course he did not mean it.



An example would be Mike Bloomberg had the requirement that you have an degree in engineering or architecture thrown out if you are the Commissioner of Department of Buildings which is just one example of Mike Bloomberg's reckless acts when it comes to the people's safety. The New Yorrk State Society of Professional Engineers took the mayor and the City of New York to court and sued. They lost round one but they are appealing. I wish I could go to court and testify on behalf of the people of New York. It is hard to believe the judge wasn't in mayor Bloomberg's pocket based on the many accidents, incidents, building collapses, scaffolding related deaths, cranes or pieces of cranes dropping down on the public, etc.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/us/08sink.html?_r=1 Read this article.


Before this article I had a letter published in AM NY on city wide concerns for safety. And than after Dollar bill Dan Doctoroff had someone email me back assuring me everything was okay we had the steam pipe explosion. What a learned from a friend was AM New York also had an article prior to this horrific incident where Dollar Bill Dan Doctoroff referred to himself as the Deputy of Infrastructure. Does Dan Doctoroff hold an engineering degree? No wonder he could not leave his city job quickly enough escaping in to the very non-transparent world of Mike Bloomberg's private empire. What has been ignored is how old and delipidated NYC's infrastructures are but New Yorkers are living it witnessing man hole covers exploding, Con Ed workers camped outside their door steps addressing gas leaks, infrastructure expansion or tending to gas leaks....the water main breaks, the sewage breaks, etc. but shouldn't all of this been addressed before you push development?


The mayor who I believe has an engineering degree from John Hopkins you would think would be tuned in to safety first and the sane requirement that we have a commissioner of DOB that has an engineering degree or architect degree....you would think he would have been wise and judicious but instead he pushed this reckless development.


What a professional engineer for the City of New York will tell you is it is critical the safety of the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We needed and still need systematic legislation over seeing the public and private infrastructures of New York and we don't have that. What is it going to take to wake people up, to get city council and they mayor to finally put the safety of the people first? Here is my very long YouTube on Infrastructure and read the text portion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-x9xCEUR3w I also have a series on Mike Bloomberg's Streets of NY and it includes the front wheel of a fire truck collapsing in to a hole in the street that opened on the upper West Side and I happened to be on the scene.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuK8u8Pp7L4 I also have YouTubes in the subway station with pipes like look like damaged limbs with gauze around them and water puddling under them on a scorching sunny day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-76BgDbms The streets are terrible shape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp05YnzuyY0 Playlist Mike Bloomberg Streets of NY dangerous as hell http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=BC7D556E511F8BD7 The YouTube below shows you the intersection http://www.ny1.com/content/69978/east-village-water-main-break-leaves-thousands-without-water years after his water main break....and you can see how bad the intersection is still in now years later.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU0Um_Zrvdw What I have shown you is something New Yorkers endure -- it is a city wide problem and the streets, the sidewalks and everything beneath are in bad and even dangerous shape. How could you push a way too rapid development and not address infrastructure concerns first? Infrastructure concerns first means addressing the safety of the people of New York.


Stay tuned...I am sorry to tell you I have a horrible feeling we will have yet another horrible infrastructure related break coming soon.....