The following letter was published in this week’s issue of the Gazette.
To the Editor:
The most cynical thing ever said by a politician was Rahm Emanuel’s “never let a crisis go to waste.” Variants of that have percolated thru the national Democratic Party in the last few days, most offensive of which was House Majority Whip Clyburn calling this virus pandemic a “tremendous opportunity.”
Here in Croton, our local politicians agree. Where a normal human reaction is to grieve the loss of life, the Board of Trustees and Village Manager see a tremendous opportunity. For a six-hour period on Monday, one person was dying from coronavirus every 2.9 minutes in New York City. On Monday afternoon as refrigerated trailers arrived in New York to hold dead bodies, here in Croton our Village Manager Janine King announced that the Croton Point Avenue (CPA) project would start the following morning, despite the order from Governor Cuomo last Friday that “non-essential construction is going to stop.”
This morning, I drove past the construction site. At the corner of CPA and Riverside, they had set out traffic cones. A white pickup was parked there, with 2 men in the front seat looking over a document. Forget about social distance: they were speaking less than 12 inches apart with no mask or any protective equipment. And those appeared to be the supervisors! READ MORE AT https://www.crotonunited.org/news-views/2020/4/3/risking-workers-lives-for-a-bike-lane
Wait till the dust kicks up.
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