The answer to the question is those paying higher taxes than they otherwise would, or those not getting services they otherwise would.

Elected officials never understand the difference between affordability and sticking someone else with the bill. Or at least they never admit they do to the someone else.

Ohio Supreme Court rules red-light cameras are legal

“With a goal of “transforming communities by invigorating their lifelines—their streets—every weekend from June through October,” Sunday Parkways promises to dramatically increase ridership in the city of Chicago by creating a car-free community celebration that other U.S. cities can adopt.”

How about New York – the city whose parkways were models for all of these others?

“There was considerable opposition” said Hakeem Jeffries, an assemblyman from Brooklyn who attended part of the meeting. “Not to the notion of doing something, to dealing with congestion or even to congestion pricing. But there’s opposition to the way it has been presented and developed so far.”

Ah yes, when you can’t think of a principled reason for opposition, retreat into procedural opposition.

And while drivers who pay tolls on bridges and tunnels within New York City, like the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge or the Midtown Tunnel, would also receive a credit, Mr. Jeffries said he was concerned about the many city drivers who currently pay no toll by using the free crossings over the East River. Those drivers, he said, most of them city residents, would feel the greatest impact from the charge.

So basically, even though having “free” bridges was a dumb idea from the start, and it’s inherently unfair, Jeffries says that we can’t change it because that would be unfair. Never mind that motorists from New Jersey have been paying tolls for years; they should pay more because … well, because it’s fair for them to pay more!

This guy is a total disappointment. He represents one of the poorest districts in the city. 68% of the households in his district do not own cars. 2.2% of his constituents drive solo into Manhattan on weekdays. Two point two percent! Meanwhile his constituents choke on car fumes, the buses through his district crawl along stuck in traffic, and the subways will be cut back from lack of funding. What a crusader for justice!