Comments on: Today’s Headlines

By: Felix

Felix — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:32:07 +0000

Juan Gonzalez is the laziest columnist in the city. Even when i agree with his positions, which is often, it’s easy to see that his columns are simply recycled press releases. Clearly, he didn’t do his homework on CP.

By: Ombud

Ombud — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:05:20 +0000

Limos and black cars have TLC plates that will I presume will be photographed. Perhaps they will also eventually have GPS equipment like yellow cabs. Obviously it costs the passenger/client something to travel by black car in the first place.

By: Davis

Davis — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:39:13 +0000

Indeed, MoFo, right you are.

By: MoFo

MoFo — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:07 +0000

Davis – I doubt you were singing that tune when Weinshall was commissioner!

By: Human Barricades

Human Barricades — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:52:19 +0000

The angry Sweeny-ites in SoHo can move the barricades out of the street. So what. There will be 2000 people walking down the street. They will not be very inclined to give their legal, city permitted, right of way up so twenty motorists can turn the ped street into another traffic jammed, honk hole. Sean and Co. seem unable to understand all they are defending is a totally broken system which benefits few and harms many. Did they wake up yesterday and find out they are at the center of a 25 million person metro area, in a city which is a global tourist attraction?

By: Heffron

Heffron — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:14:54 +0000

Vandalism isn’t civil disobedience, it’s just disobedience.

By: Davis

Davis — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:09:45 +0000

What morons this small group of SoHo apartment owners are.

Thanks goodness the DOT doesn’t actually have to listen to Community Boards.

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:44:09 +0000

On Prince Street

“If D.O.T goes ahead with this, there will be civil disobedience,” said Sweeney. “It is very easy to rip No Parking signs and dismantle the barricades.”

http://thevillager.com/villager_255/pandenoniumover.html

Sounds like something that can cut both ways. As I said, Soho is a place where the rules are irrelevant.

By: Dave H.

Dave H. — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:44:56 +0000

That NARP blog article could really use some citations or indications of how the calculations were made. As it is, it’s just Kool-aid.

By: Komanoff

Komanoff — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:17:28 +0000

Gonzalez wrote: “Meanwhile, a black car limousine that takes some Wall Street executive to work in the morning will pay only $1 extra for driving into the congestion zone.” Is that correct? If so, what’s the admin mechanism for distinguishing a limo or black car from a regular car? If not, can someone document (granted that proving a negative can be difficult)?

By: Spud Spudly

Spud Spudly — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:12:24 +0000

If anything could make me support CP it’s a Juan Gonzalez column against it. That guy is sleaze, pure and simple.

By: A Resident

A Resident — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:09:22 +0000

It is smart to have RPP as an opt in program. Most CBs will eventually choose to opt in. RPP is important only in that it allows for sensible meter rates on nearby commercial and arterial streets.

By: ddartley

ddartley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:52:42 +0000

I think cabbies should be allowed to use hands-free cell phones.

If the T&LC’s claim–that passengers say cabbies’ use of hands-free cell phones makes them feel unsafe–is true, it’s astounding.

That must mean that fewer passengers complain about high-speed and careless driving by cabbies than those who complain about cell phone use. If that’s true, then passengers are hardly as worried about safety as they’re worried about the other sentiment mentioned in the AMNY piece, feeling “unattended-to.”

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:31:54 +0000

As I expected, the first CB has rejected both CP and RPP for reasons that are both selfish (how do we get our fair share of CP revenues) and reflective of the ignorance of the CB members about how RPP will work.

RPP is too novel an idea to leave it to the NIMBY-types in the CB’s. Mike, admit you made a mistake and centralize RPP with consistent boundaries across the entire city and consistent rules.

As RPP stands now it will go nowhere and do nothing to help CP pass.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:17:53 +0000

That Daily News column is outrageously manipulative. I would think Brodsky himself had written it, but it’s too over-the-top, even for him.