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Sen. Chuck Schumer, self-proclaimed "nerd" (file)
Nerds, New York's senior senator is fighting for you.
Senator Charles Schumer proposed a "nerd bus" (his words) to connect the growing number of tech start-ups in New York City, catering to the all the brainiacs and their transportation needs. In an open letter to the city's Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Democrat asked them to create a route linking up points of the "tech boom," which includes hotspots in Brooklyn, Queens and Roosevelt Island.
"Don’t need a PhD to know Nerd bus is a no-brainer," he wrote in a tweet. Showing his love for the nerd community, he then tweeted a picture of himself in high school, saying "it takes one to know one."
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Errr....Shumer, we have the connections in the tech nerdy community alread. It's something called the INTERNET?
Or were you just looking for another wasteful project of so called infrastructure to throw tax payers and borrowed Chinese, Japanese, Brits and Danes dollars at to help goose you NYC and environs economy, and demonstrating the great wisdom claimed by your President that "If you have a business...you didn't build that, someone else did that!" LOL!
You want to build a linking bus system to connect physically the NYC and environs, than take your idea to the NYC officials and the State of NY officials for a Municipal and/or State Bonding program to raise the funds, and don't come bothering me in Connecticut for the tax money!