Comments on: Pricing Round Up: Sticking Points, Horse Trading, Hearings http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/03/21/pricing-round-up-sticking-points-horse-trading-public-hearing/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: HIlary http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/03/21/pricing-round-up-sticking-points-horse-trading-public-hearing/comment-page-1/#comment-46414 HIlary Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:01:39 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/03/21/pricing-round-up-sticking-points-horse-trading-public-hearing/#comment-46414 I'm ready to compromise and accept a Westchester rationing plan. We'll set daily (or hourly) quotas for the number of cars they can send into the city and let them figure out the fairest way to achieve it - by pricing, rationing, merit, first come first serve. Let them figure it out. I’m ready to compromise and accept a Westchester rationing plan. We’ll set daily (or hourly) quotas for the number of cars they can send into the city and let them figure out the fairest way to achieve it – by pricing, rationing, merit, first come first serve. Let them figure it out.

]]> By: Sick http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/03/21/pricing-round-up-sticking-points-horse-trading-public-hearing/comment-page-1/#comment-46411 Sick Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:27:35 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/03/21/pricing-round-up-sticking-points-horse-trading-public-hearing/#comment-46411 Update on the old "Are you the sick passenger" subway ads. New one. "Are you the sick passenger? Next time, we'll pay you to drive." Update on the old “Are you the sick passenger” subway ads. New one. “Are you the sick passenger? Next time, we’ll pay you to drive.”

]]> By: Dave http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/03/21/pricing-round-up-sticking-points-horse-trading-public-hearing/comment-page-1/#comment-46410 Dave Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:09:06 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/03/21/pricing-round-up-sticking-points-horse-trading-public-hearing/#comment-46410 I love the inane objections: - Better to have one taxi than 25 cars in the CP zone. But their cruising is an issue so let's put taxi stands in place in midtown and prohibit them from cruising. The problem though is enforcement. Look at the through streets program with turns prohibited or better yet the "buses and taxis with passengers only" 49th/50th streets. How often were/are those regulations enforced? In my experience hardly ever. - Just exactly how many of these supposed elderly/sick people will here be driving into the city for medical appointments? Are they given a discount on the VNB? The subway? Don't they usually take para-transit anyway? Give me a number of people impacted before you go setting up a discount program that will only be misused. - Haven't we already discussed and dismissed the NJ issue already? Molinaro how about you step up and discuss how Staten Islanders won't be given a discount for VNB or other tolls? I think BBQ residents should be given a discount on the Harlem and East River tolls when they are implemented, as long as I get the same discount as a Manhattan resident. I love the inane objections:

- Better to have one taxi than 25 cars in the CP zone. But their cruising is an issue so let’s put taxi stands in place in midtown and prohibit them from cruising.

The problem though is enforcement. Look at the through streets program with turns prohibited or better yet the “buses and taxis with passengers only” 49th/50th streets. How often were/are those regulations enforced? In my experience hardly ever.

- Just exactly how many of these supposed elderly/sick people will here be driving into the city for medical appointments? Are they given a discount on the VNB? The subway? Don’t they usually take para-transit anyway?

Give me a number of people impacted before you go setting up a discount program that will only be misused.

- Haven’t we already discussed and dismissed the NJ issue already? Molinaro how about you step up and discuss how Staten Islanders won’t be given a discount for VNB or other tolls? I think BBQ residents should be given a discount on the Harlem and East River tolls when they are implemented, as long as I get the same discount as a Manhattan resident.

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