It’s also about rich folks from CT and Westchester invading their neighborhoods without paying their fair share.

I never received a transportation alternatives candidate survey. I’m good at responding to those type of things. Why don’t you email me back at peopleforjuliustajiddin@yahoo.com and I will send you a bio and timeline. I am currently building my site. If you send me the TACS I will respond to.

I’m surprised that you didn’t find more information on me considering what I have achieved for my community and my activism.

Yours,

Julius Tajiddin

Thanks for the positive mention. I wanted to clarify that I attempted to answer the transportation alternative survey but got error messages on their automated website and finally gave up though I believe my bio did get captured on their website. I have been an avid cyclist for many years. When I was a high school teacher I would ride to work everyday. I’ve done the 5 boro tours and various other races. On the voter video guide I’m proposing a complete ban on vehicles in NYC not just upper Manhattan. We should stop wasting billions on maintaining roads and instead spend the money on our mass transit adding heavy and light rail lines that should be FREE. We need a “CAR FREE/FREE TRANSIT” NYC!!!!

I don’t think we need to go all Baudrillard to explain why there’s so little traction for antimotorist policies. The politicians need the unions’ help to organize the petition drives and the phone banks, and the unions get parking privileges in return. And once you have parking privileges, you might as well ask for (and get) driving privileges too.

The belief is that driving = social promotion. This is a much harder idea to dislodge than driving = success. There’s a hard kernel of self-entitlement inside it.

If J and Peter are right, “elitist” means someone who blocks people from entering the ranks of the drivers, or from exercising their hard-earned driving privileges.

You might expect that the fact that most of us don’t drive might lead these strivers to question the idea that driving=success, but instead it seems to simply not compute and gets ignored.

Congratulations, J – you hit it right on the head! I love TA and admire what DOT is attempting, but they seem unwilling or unable to understand that mind-set. It’s where the unfair “elitist” label came from, and it’s what killed congestion pricing.

Why am i not surprised? You think anyone but Greenwich Village elitists like JSK care about your little agenda.

These folks don’t pay attention to a bunch who sit behind a computer all day, the same little coterie, and call that campaigning.

You have nothing worthwhile to provide. You are ignored. When Bloomie is gone, so will his agenda and the People will have their say again, not limousine liberals like Sadik-Khan.

She does ride a limo you know?

It’s all about perception; if you grew up with no choice but transit and walking, a car represents freedom, and politicians play on that idea. That is why opposition to tolls is so intense up here, even though few people own cars. For those of us who choose to take transit, walk and bike, a car is often seen as an inconvenience, and tolls seem like an obvious answer to reduce traffic. How do you change perceptions? More convenient transit, walking, and biking.