Post by NOTTHOR on Apr 10, 2008 17:18:53 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/nyregion/08congest.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
They shot down a proposed NYC congestion tax that would have charged an $8 toll to enter midtown during busy traffic hours because it was "regressive" and would keep poors from driving in Manhattan. Earth to retards, keeping people from driving is the damn point. When I lived out there, I thought every entrance into the City needed to have a toll of at least $20 because traffic was freaking ridonculous and all the damn trucks idling in traffic tossed off some hellish exhaust.
As much as I loathe the global warming alarmists and their psuedoscientific babbling, congestion elimination and pushing more people onto mass transit is something that our cities really need to improve. Chicago and New York have excellent mass transit systems (well, okay Chicago's is a crumbling cesspool due to decades of piss poor Democratic leadership at the city and county levels) and these dipshits who drive everywhere should get a little fiscal pain to help shift them over to mass transit. The funds collected should be used to build mammoth parking structures in the 'burbs so people can live in the burbs, park at the train station and ride the freaking train into the city. A lot of 'burbs have nice train stations, but nowhere to park. Do they think someone is going to fucking walk 2 miles to the damn train at 6:30 in the morning in December to get to work? Fat chance.
They shot down a proposed NYC congestion tax that would have charged an $8 toll to enter midtown during busy traffic hours because it was "regressive" and would keep poors from driving in Manhattan. Earth to retards, keeping people from driving is the damn point. When I lived out there, I thought every entrance into the City needed to have a toll of at least $20 because traffic was freaking ridonculous and all the damn trucks idling in traffic tossed off some hellish exhaust.
As much as I loathe the global warming alarmists and their psuedoscientific babbling, congestion elimination and pushing more people onto mass transit is something that our cities really need to improve. Chicago and New York have excellent mass transit systems (well, okay Chicago's is a crumbling cesspool due to decades of piss poor Democratic leadership at the city and county levels) and these dipshits who drive everywhere should get a little fiscal pain to help shift them over to mass transit. The funds collected should be used to build mammoth parking structures in the 'burbs so people can live in the burbs, park at the train station and ride the freaking train into the city. A lot of 'burbs have nice train stations, but nowhere to park. Do they think someone is going to fucking walk 2 miles to the damn train at 6:30 in the morning in December to get to work? Fat chance.