Stacey Matlen and the Partnership for New York City.

Transit Tech Lab Applications are due in just a few days, but don't worry, there's always next year.

The stance of everyone at Exapserated Infrastructures is this: let’s work toward solving problems that we’ve identified and defined. We’re solutions agnostic and we’re not anti-business or profit averse. If projects fix and solve these problems the entities involved communicate what and how then why shouldn’t a company seek to make money? Why should every idea be publicly born and bred to lose taxpayer dollars to marginally improve taxpayer experience? We’re all driven by different stimuli, and two things remain true:

1. Decrying the business community malum in se for seeking profit regardless of the corresponding societal or personal benefits is an unbelievably short-sighted position.

2. Building publicly-developed, short-term solutions in search of “problems” and skimming cash from public coffers to do so is an unbelievably short-sighted posit…