Will Aqueduct Ever See Slot Machines? 

There are some that think that the idea of slot machines at New York’s Aqueduct race track is simply an old wives’ tale. They say that for eight years they have been hearing that slot machines are coming in, and yet every time they turn around something else happens so that this doesn’t really happen. This time it seemed like they were really getting close to having it happen, and there was a contract and everything to make it so. However, as you can see from the news reports, the slot machines just couldn’t get off of the ground. 

Perhaps they are simply doomed to not have slot machines. Some don’t think that this is necessarily a bad thing. There are those that think that all of these delays mean something – that the state is not meant to have them. They say that they have already seen the beginnings of corruption surrounding them, so why risk fate and bring them in? 

But the state of New York understands that there is a lot of money at stake, which is why they are so interested in it. They know that every day that they don’t have slot machines is hundreds of thousands of dollars that they will not be able to get back. And the fact that it has taken them eight years already and they still don’t have slot machines up and running means that millions of dollars has been wasted that could have gone to very needy programs in the state.