Comments on: Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 2 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:59:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Gelston http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37162 Gelston Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:11:05 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/#comment-37162 Capn Transit has convinced me. Capn Transit has convinced me.

]]> By: Cap'n Transit http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37161 Cap'n Transit Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:56:40 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/#comment-37161 Maybe so, Gelston, but they'll still drive through the Bronx to get there. http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2007/08/park-and-rides-are-not-answer.html Clearly, park-and-rides are not the answer. It's a shame that the city agred to build them. Can't we build them in some out-of-the-way place where no one would ever use them? Maybe so, Gelston, but they'll still drive through the Bronx to get there.

http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2007/08/park-and-rides-are-not-answer.html

Clearly, park-and-rides are not the answer. It's a shame that the city agred to build them. Can't we build them in some out-of-the-way place where no one would ever use them?

]]> By: Gelston http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37158 Gelston Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:27:24 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/#comment-37158 The question for Aggarwala then is where are the new park and ride facilities supposed to be? I believe two are required under the plan. The only way I can think of that the Yankee Stadium garage could be used to sop up CBD-bound commuters and not induce new demand is to require government employees to use it and take away their parking privileges in Manhattan. The question for Aggarwala then is where are the new park and ride facilities supposed to be? I believe two are required under the plan. The only way I can think of that the Yankee Stadium garage could be used to sop up CBD-bound commuters and not induce new demand is to require government employees to use it and take away their parking privileges in Manhattan.

]]> By: Gary http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37157 Gary Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:21:22 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/#comment-37157 Funny, one of the newer threads about the ridiculous subsidies for Yankee Stadium parking garages talks about just that . . . park and ride at Yankee Stadium! Funny, one of the newer threads about the ridiculous subsidies for Yankee Stadium parking garages talks about just that . . . park and ride at Yankee Stadium!

]]> By: Bedraj Tripathy http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37149 Bedraj Tripathy Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:47:38 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/#comment-37149 I think we are making it sound as if we are charging a fortune for traffic to come down to CBD of NYC. You pay $ 3 for a cup of coffee - which helps Star Bucks gorw in leaps and bounds when you ahve an option of $0.99c for a QucikChek coffee. I think what Rohit is speaking is really this. One, there is an incremental charge. And the choice of paying the charge is dependent on the traveler. YOU. You choose to go through the CBD, you choose to pay the incremental amount. You choose not to pay the incremental fee, you go on the periphery. I think any change will bring in cries from across the people who are impacted. That's only one view of the issue. Let's look at the betterment of the citizens for a change. Let's go with the charging and have a better life. 01. Lower CO in the atmostphere 02. Lowering of breathing related health issues 03. Faster commute and hence savings for businesses 04. Finally, a better life for NYC and surrounding areas Yes, Yankees stadium park-n-ride is a good idea. Just float this and see the how badly it can snow ball against you! I think we are making it sound as if we are charging a fortune for traffic to come down to CBD of NYC. You pay $ 3 for a cup of coffee - which helps Star Bucks gorw in leaps and bounds when you ahve an option of $0.99c for a QucikChek coffee.

I think what Rohit is speaking is really this. One, there is an incremental charge. And the choice of paying the charge is dependent on the traveler. YOU. You choose to go through the CBD, you choose to pay the incremental amount. You choose not to pay the incremental fee, you go on the periphery.

I think any change will bring in cries from across the people who are impacted. That's only one view of the issue. Let's look at the betterment of the citizens for a change. Let's go with the charging and have a better life.

01. Lower CO in the atmostphere
02. Lowering of breathing related health issues
03. Faster commute and hence savings for businesses
04. Finally, a better life for NYC and surrounding areas

Yes, Yankees stadium park-n-ride is a good idea. Just float this and see the how badly it can snow ball against you!

]]> By: Boogiedown http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37140 Boogiedown Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:33:58 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/18/congestion-pricing-qa-with-rohit-aggarwala-part-2/#comment-37140 "RA: Not really. The largest vector through which cars enter the Central Business District is not the East River, it's 60th Street. More cars are coming south from upper Manhattan, the Bronx and Westchester than are crossing the East River. So, you would get some of the benefit by only tolling the bridges but you wouldn't get all of it." So let's build Park-N-Rides at Yankee Stadium so our auto-dependent cousins in Westchester can keep motoring! "RA: Not really. The largest vector through which cars enter the Central Business District is not the East River, it's 60th Street. More cars are coming south from upper Manhattan, the Bronx and Westchester than are crossing the East River. So, you would get some of the benefit by only tolling the bridges but you wouldn't get all of it."

So let's build Park-N-Rides at Yankee Stadium so our auto-dependent cousins in Westchester can keep motoring!

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