The Subway Mayor (Sort Of)

Though New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has earned kudos by taking public transit to work, reporters for the New York Times note his commute -- which involves a 22 block ride in a chauffeured Chevy Suburban -- isn't your average subway ride.

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August 2, 2007, 8:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"He is public transportation's loudest cheerleader, boasting that he takes the subway "virtually every day." He has told residents who complain about overcrowded trains to "get real" and he constantly encourages New Yorkers to follow his environmentally friendly example.

But Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's commute is not your average straphanger's ride.

On mornings that he takes the subway from home, Mr. Bloomberg is picked up at his Upper East Side town house by a pair of king-size Chevrolet Suburbans. The mayor is driven 22 blocks to the subway station at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue, where he can board an express train to City Hall. His drivers zip past his neighborhood station, a local subway stop a five-minute walk away.

That means Mr. Bloomberg - whose much-discussed subway rides have become an indelible component of his public image - spends a quarter of his ostensibly subterranean commute in an S.U.V."

FULL STORY: Mayor Takes the Subway — by Way of S.U.V.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007 in The New York Times

Government / Politics Transportation New York

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