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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Takes Your Phone Calls !

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mark talked with Chris from Bethpage New York, about the new train stations in New York. Vincent from Brooklyn gave the city an idea on how to make extra cash by making e-bike riders get licensed and have to pay for the right to ride them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

New York's most connected talk radio hosts.

0:03.5

Mark Simone on W-O-R.

0:07.0

Hey, we'll take some calls.

0:08.1

800, 3-2-1-0-7-10 is the number.

0:11.6

Let's go to Chris in Beth Page, Long Island.

0:14.4

Chris, how you doing?

0:16.1

Hey, Mark, good.

0:17.6

I want to know, Mark, you always get around the city.

0:20.1

Have you seen the new Long Island Railroad Station they built at Grand Central Station. Have you been to that area? There's a new term. There's a new part that's brand new and looks beautiful. But what is that exactly? I don't think that's the Long Island. That's more for the out-of-town trains, right? No. I take the Long Island Railroad every day in, except for today. Oh, wait, wait, wait. I think we're talking about two different things. I'm talking about at Penn Station. There's a brand-new terminal that's beautiful, but that's for the out-of-town trains. You're talking about at Grand Central where the... Right. At Grand Central Station now, there's a little outlet of the Long Island Railroad. Yeah, I've seen it. The problem is it's like 27 floors underground. It's so far down. Right. Right. The reason I bring this up, Mark, is you were just talking about this. Okay. So I work in Lower Manhattan, and every day, without fail, I see people jumping over the turnstile I see that okay

1:11.9

and then I take the train the subway up to the Grand Central to take the Long Island

1:16.1

River at the at Grand Central station they have about seven or eight New York City police officers

1:22.0

that all they do is they hang out in this beautiful information area that That's all they do. They just hang out there.

1:29.8

Nobody ever asked them any questions. And I'm just, I said to a cop the other day, I said,

1:34.5

hey, couldn't your services be used better if you just go to the down into the subway? Because people

1:40.3

are jumping over these. You got a great point. You're absolutely right. But don't't blame the cops It's not up to them They get assigned Where they're assigned They get told to do what they're told to do It's most likely We won't mention any names But a lot of big real estate interests Built that terminal and owned that stuff And that probably got a lot of clout with the police

2:01.0

department make sure there's plenty of cops standing there in their station uh you're right they should

2:06.0

be deployed down in the subway you could you turn the cops loose they could clean this up in a

2:12.3

month there'd be no more subway crime it'd go back to the way it was it'd be just like it used to be

2:17.3

yeah all right chris thanks for calling take care let's go to uh more subway. It'd go back to the way it was. It'd be just like it used to be. Yeah. All right, Chris,

2:18.3

thanks for calling. Take care. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?

2:24.2

Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you. Mark, do you think Kathy Hokel will believe

2:29.6

New Yorkers will not notice the toll increases due to the easy pass. And I'm wondering,

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