I am really hoping Joan comes around - I think she may, depending on the final concessions made. But it helps to call and express your support for CP, because the opponents have been calling and screeching nonstop.

If Dems would take an honest look at the results of existing pricing systems and the assessments of New York's situation instead of attacking the places showing those results and the people making those assessments, they'd find that there is no Democratic case against pricing. There's just a collection of self-important people that want to keep driving into the zone for free every day, and they are small minority whether you're talking about the city or the state. Drive carefully, Albany.

The Post quotes Assemblyman Benjamin as saying that "The last good idea to come from Britain was radar" a critical part of the war effort largely -- and heroically -- developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during World War II.

Do these politicians really want to be on the dark side of history like those who voted for the war in Iraq?

This stuff makes you wanna wretch.

Can you afford to be seen as not supporting more mass transit funding?

Do you really stand for cars and against most New Yorkers who never drive to the CBD during business hours?

Do you really want sububanites continuing to drive through your streets and congesting your air without penalizing them.

Should the polluter pay or not?

Call your assemblymember: http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

"Driving into Manhattan is a privilege, not a right."

I like his support, but I'm concerned that pricing opponents are going to jump on his wording to argue that pricing supporters are only concerned about the "privileged".