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Forget Citi Bike: Billionaire Mayoral Candidate Wants A Monorail
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Lauren Evans
Published Jun 19, 2013
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You know what we need more than a citywide composting program or a 600-foot-tall helium balloon? MONORAIL. At least according to John Catsimatidis, the supermarket magnate-turned-mayoral hopeful.
“Not subway, ABOVE-way,” he quipped at a forum hosted at Manhattan's Baruch College earlier today.
Catsimatidis's wish apparently involves installing the monorail alongside the Long Island Expressway, because, as Daily Intel reports, expanding the existing subway system is "a pipe dream." Unlike building a monorail. Which will totally happen.
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
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