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Andrew Yang is selling himself as an ideas man.
But more than once now on the trail he’s offered up notions that landed with a deafening thud.
Transportation watchers we talked to said arguments against mayoral control of the city trains have only become more pronounced since the 2017 “Summer of Hell.” The idea was championed by Council Speaker Corey Johnson — now running for city comptroller — who was plotting his own mayoral run at the time.