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To: Eli Kopter

I lived in Hells Kitchen while at University for four years so I am fully aware of how The City works, I have also subsequently lived outside London. Congestion charges work and work well. I was just in NYC and it’s night and day. No more 30+ min wait for an UBER to creep to you. What used to take 2 to 3 hours in rush hour in London can be done in 1 now from the greenbelt to the center of London.

It’s irrelevant this is a state’s rights issue. Giving the fed even more of our states rights just because boomers in flyover country don’t like something NY citizens voted for is the peak of stupidity.


40 posted on 02/20/2025 6:30:10 AM PST by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath
Congestion charges work and work well. I was just in NYC and it’s night and day. No more 30+ min wait for an UBER to creep to you.

Everything's better if someone else pays for it.

You'd think the last few days of DOGE exposure of how taxpayers have been getting ripped off for decades so a privileged few can benefit would open one's eyes.

46 posted on 02/20/2025 6:36:02 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: GenXPolymath

Thanks for your knowledgeable opinions. For those of us who don’t live there it is a hard issue to understand. I personally live on and off in Israel, so our traffic problems are somewhat different. Tel Aviv is similar to New York, yet Jerusalem is like another country.


47 posted on 02/20/2025 6:36:13 AM PST by Eli Kopter (Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
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To: GenXPolymath

It is weird how you throw in age on so many topics where it doesn’t fit, like this one, it seems directed at freerepublic and its members and doesn’t make sense.


75 posted on 02/20/2025 8:12:28 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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