On Friday the 5th of February a crane was being lowered on Hudson Street and tragically it collapsed, which led to the death of David Wichs, a 38 year old. Additionally, the collapse damaged gas pipes, water mains, cars and buildings. Thousands of people had their lives disrupted due to evacuated buildings and closed streets.
However, Mayor de Blasio called this event “a miracle”, and in a press conference went on to talk about how we should be thankful that there weren’t more deaths and damage. Some believe this relaxed viewpoint towards the construction industry a problem that needs to be addressed.
For example, Mayor de Blasio paid more attention to ban horses over his two years span as Mayor, rather than tackling the growing problems with the construction industry. All across the city construction sites are making too much noise. Fines are given out, but they are worthless because the noise pollution is permitted to continue.
Here is a statement that shows how the Mayor fails to take this event seriously: “We’ve had some real serious issues on construction sites. But that is different from what we’ve seen here.”
During the past year there has been a 50% fatality increase causing 18 deaths, and mostly it’s because of negligence and incompetence. The problem here is that the crane owners have killed an individual, but will continue to lift and lower cranes.
This is a real problem that needs to be addressed, but by reading into Mayor de Blasio comments made at the hour-long State of the City speech on Thursday, it won’t be any time soon.
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