Comments on: StreetFilms: “I Have the Right to Breathe Clean Air” http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:44:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Rich Wilson http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/comment-page-1/#comment-32661 Rich Wilson Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:28:50 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/#comment-32661 Is this video being shown on TV? Is this video being shown on TV?

]]> By: d http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/comment-page-1/#comment-32651 d Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:36:40 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/#comment-32651 i hear ya. thanks steve! i hear ya.
thanks steve!

]]> By: momos http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/comment-page-1/#comment-32646 momos Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:42:18 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/#comment-32646 There are other traffic management tools used in other nations that could be very effective here in NYC. Anyone who rides a bike knows in what regard drivers in New York hold painted stripes demarcating bike lanes and bus lanes. In the UK, Manchester has decided not to mess around with paint, and get serious. Check out this short Youtube video of the automated bollards placed in bus lanes to keep cars out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEbmJi3ROKk&mode=related&search= There are other traffic management tools used in other nations that could be very effective here in NYC. Anyone who rides a bike knows in what regard drivers in New York hold painted stripes demarcating bike lanes and bus lanes. In the UK, Manchester has decided not to mess around with paint, and get serious. Check out this short Youtube video of the automated bollards placed in bus lanes to keep cars out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEbmJi3ROKk&mode=related&search=

]]> By: Steve http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/comment-page-1/#comment-32641 Steve Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:59:00 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/#comment-32641 d, you are right that this is going to get (is getting?) watered down. But the principle is so important that I'll probably stay on board until the bitter end. The idea that motorists would be disfavored road users, that they would have to pay just to enter the street while bicyclists and pedestrians can use them for free, represents the leading edge of a huge and necessary paradigm shift. Even a reduction in the fee below $8, exemption for trucks or of intra-zone trips, constriction of the zone, or other types of dilution would not lead me to oppose. (Not that I would welcome or refrain from arguing against such compromises). However watered down, if approved congestion pricing will go forward on a 3 year trial basis. If the trial works, there will be a new opportunity to argue about the details. d, you are right that this is going to get (is getting?) watered down. But the principle is so important that I'll probably stay on board until the bitter end. The idea that motorists would be disfavored road users, that they would have to pay just to enter the street while bicyclists and pedestrians can use them for free, represents the leading edge of a huge and necessary paradigm shift. Even a reduction in the fee below $8, exemption for trucks or of intra-zone trips, constriction of the zone, or other types of dilution would not lead me to oppose. (Not that I would welcome or refrain from arguing against such compromises). However watered down, if approved congestion pricing will go forward on a 3 year trial basis. If the trial works, there will be a new opportunity to argue about the details.

]]> By: d http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/comment-page-1/#comment-32639 d Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:29:52 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/06/14/i-have-the-right-to-breathe-clean-air/#comment-32639 i think that there will be so many compromises made on the way to congestion pricing being approved that it will end up not being effective. the people who oppose it on govt are gonna help to compromise it to death. i think that there will be so many compromises made on the way to congestion pricing being approved that it will end up not being effective. the people who oppose it on govt are gonna help to compromise it to death.

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