Comments on: What Your District Loses Without Congestion Pricing http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/04/what-your-district-loses-without-congestion-pricing/ 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: Mike http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/04/what-your-district-loses-without-congestion-pricing/comment-page-1/#comment-47754 Mike Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:05:20 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/04/what-your-district-loses-without-congestion-pricing/#comment-47754 This is a huge failure for the entire city and the surrounding areas. It's amazing the amount of misinformation which is still circulating about this plan many months after it was first proposed. The only winners in this are the richest 5% or so of commuters - i.e., those who drive into downtown Manhattan every day. Average joes like the rest of us are going to be saddled with massive subway fare hikes just to sustain the current service levels. New York will continue to lose in the battle with London and other cities to attract international capital because we'll be the only major international financial hub offering clogged streets and miserable air quality. This is a complete disgrace. This is a huge failure for the entire city and the surrounding areas. It’s amazing the amount of misinformation which is still circulating about this plan many months after it was first proposed. The only winners in this are the richest 5% or so of commuters – i.e., those who drive into downtown Manhattan every day. Average joes like the rest of us are going to be saddled with massive subway fare hikes just to sustain the current service levels. New York will continue to lose in the battle with London and other cities to attract international capital because we’ll be the only major international financial hub offering clogged streets and miserable air quality. This is a complete disgrace.

]]> By: JF http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/04/what-your-district-loses-without-congestion-pricing/comment-page-1/#comment-47608 JF Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:28:00 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/04/what-your-district-loses-without-congestion-pricing/#comment-47608 Ruben, we need those tolls to get cars off our streets. Here in <i>Brooklyn</i> and <i>Queens</i> we're swamped every day with cars going to and from the "free" bridges. Your fantasy that the MTA is somehow hiding all this money, when your friend Giuliani cut their budget every year he was Mayor, wouldn't solve this problem even if it were true. Ruben, we need those tolls to get cars off our streets. Here in Brooklyn and Queens we’re swamped every day with cars going to and from the “free” bridges. Your fantasy that the MTA is somehow hiding all this money, when your friend Giuliani cut their budget every year he was Mayor, wouldn’t solve this problem even if it were true.

]]> By: Ruben Safir http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/04/what-your-district-loses-without-congestion-pricing/comment-page-1/#comment-47602 Ruben Safir Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:14:27 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/04/what-your-district-loses-without-congestion-pricing/#comment-47602 Call your representitive and tell them you want the improvements without the damn East River TAX!! Call them NOW. No to Trasit Taxes! No to destroying Brooklyn and Queens! No to Congestion Taxes! No to the bloated MTA! More Masstransit NOW without the tolls! They pretend it's either more direct taxes to the MTA or No Transit. Tell the MTA to find its own funding and live inside the public budget! Ruben Call your representitive and tell them you want the improvements without the damn East River TAX!!

Call them NOW. No to Trasit Taxes! No to destroying Brooklyn and Queens!

No to Congestion Taxes!

No to the bloated MTA!

More Masstransit NOW without the tolls!

They pretend it’s either more direct taxes to the MTA or No Transit. Tell the MTA to find its own funding and live inside the public budget!

Ruben

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