Comments on: Today’s Headlines

By: Angus Grieve-Smith

Angus Grieve-Smith — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:53:16 +0000

The self-selected responses to a Crain’s online poll merit a news story? Huh?

By: Efficiency Nut

Efficiency Nut — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:46:06 +0000

Did anyone else think that NY Times article was the most inane piece of rubbish that has been reported by any of the major papers since pricing was announced on April 19th???

I was disgusted. All the valid talking points and briefing memos be damned, I’m gonna go out and ask a bunch of drivers if they want to pay for something they currently get for free. OMG! What a surprise, the drivers don’t like the idea. What groundbreaking news!

Where’s the other side of the “fair and balanced” approach that they usually take (i.e. giving McCaffrey’s bogus front Anti-Congestion Tax group a free quoation)? Where are the interviews with pedestrians, transit riders, and cyclists, the primary beneficiaries of the plan, the 95% of NYC who will love pricing.

But I digress. Look unicorns!!

By: Anne (www.sustainableflatbush.org)

Anne (www.sustainableflatbush.org) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:22:05 +0000

unfortunate that the Newsday reporter in the new stations article confuses congestion pricing with the entire PlaNYC program. it would be unfortunate if that kind of bad research and reporting leads congestion pricing opponents to resist the entire plan because they don’t understand the difference.

By: AD

AD — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:02:44 +0000

Joe Wright’s idea is to reduce congestion by increasing automobile parking? That’s the most backwards thinking I’ve ever heard.

By: Jason Varone

Jason Varone — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:51:37 +0000

“This fall, the Parks Department and the U.S. Forest Service will use computer modeling to study which trees best fight pollution.” – Post

not bad!

By: v

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:56:11 +0000

>>Another respondent, Joe Wright, argued that much >>of the congestion is caused by bus traffic and >>the lack of available parking in Manhattan. >>”This is just another tax on New Yorkers,” he >>said. “The city brought this problem on itself >>by forbidding the construction of parking lots >>some years ago.

Uh, no, Joe, traffic isn’t caused by “bus congestion” and a lack of services for drivers. If you had ever been to a great city outside of New York, you’d understand that.