I've new respect...

[Thomas]

IK, that's no bridge, it's a contractor's dream--an endless construction project...paid for by the gullible and long- suffering locals.

In the 1980s it took me an hour and twenty minutes to drive nine miles from Brooklyn into Manhattan--on a good morning.

I remember when I came to the Finger Lakes I was looking for gainful employment while I prepared to get my winery going. Some guy in Rochester asked me in an interview if I could handle driving from my Keuka Lake home 70 miles to Rochester for an hour and twenty minutes each way, daily.

I replied, "Sure can. I used to do it daily in NYCity, but here I'd be getting somewhere."