I am assuming that the subject of a casino parlor will again be in the news.
As has consistently been said, Nassau County might expect to derive $20 million.
A casino does not produce a product or service.
If everything is added up: the 20 million, the cost of the location, the installation and operating expenses and whatever the profit the operator would realize, it would total many tens of millions of dollars.
As in all of these kinds of institutions including scratch off cards and lotteries, the player’s losses far exceed that of the occasional winners.
This is money out of the pockets of the people (many who are needy) with nothing to show for it. It is so low life.
The people have spoken with an emphatic no! And the question of why the secrecy about the location of a re-try.
Some more words on my traffic subject of last week: If one tunes in to WINS 1010 News Radio and hears the Traffic and Transit Report, one seldom fails to hear about a motor vehicle collision or sometimes a train derailment.
And such as the well publicized Walmart semi driver who had been on the road who knows how many hours.
A few days ago there was a collision at Willis Avenue and 2nd Street in Mineola.
The jaws of life were needed to free an occupant. Nothing was said about how it happened or what negligence was involved.
This is one intersection where nothing should ever happen. The next day the jaws were needed nearby.
It will happen again on Roslyn Road and don’t blame it on a 40 MPH speed limit where applicable.
Quite a while back I mentioned a situation where the L. I. E. is at a low point where it passes under Walt Whitman Road.
From that point eastbound it is an upgrade all the way to Dix Hills.
After 2 p.m. or so, in order to meet the volume of traffic it has to continue to move at the speed limit. I mentioned that there should be signs: Upgrade-Maintain Speed. This was never realized.
The result is a very long traffic jam.
It is like the situation with the light on Herricks Road I mentioned last week.
We have people on the public payroll who in effect say to the public: “You don’t tell us, we tell you.”
Charles Samek
Mineola
