Posted on 04/05/2019 5:19:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Cuomo says only ‘very rich people’ can afford to drive into Manhattan
By Carl Campanile
April 4, 2019 | 9:46pm | Updated April 4, 2019 | 11:37pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended congestion pricing on Thursday, saying most motorists won’t be affected because only “very rich people” can afford to drive into Manhattan.
“Outer-borough residents are not driving their cars into Manhattan. That’s not how they come in,” Cuomo said at the Association for a Better New York.
“I’m a Queens boy. Only very rich people can drive into Manhattan. You have to pay the toll. You have to pay parking . . . it probably comes close to $100 a day.”
Cuomo said only a fraction of outer-borough commuters — 2 percent or less — drive in from Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
He told reporters afterward “it’s a luxury” to drive into Midtown.
But Assemblyman David Weprin, who represents middle-class sections of Queens, said he’s being inundated with calls from constituents alarmed by the congestion plan.
“A lot of people, they have no choice but to drive in,” Weprin said.
Cuomo drew a hearty cheer from the well-heeled audience when he said the congestion plan “will endure to the benefit of Manhattan real estate interests when we have a better transportation system.”
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All of the above.
Since you mention Hong Kong, I recall hearing that in order to own a car in Tokyo, you have to prove that you have a place to park it.
My youngest brother lives in Ft. Lee and works in Manhattan at a fancy bank. He’s a mid level executive making well over $100,000 a year. He’s a middle aged white guy, married, with 2 teenaged sons.
I talk to him frequently and once asked why he doesn’t drive into his office. He told me doing that every day would eat up about 25% of his pay. He simply can’t afford it. He also told me it would add 2-3 more hours to his daily commute.
I bitch about a 60 minute drive and $20 a day to park in Chicago. Granted I usually leave my home at about 5:45 am to beat the traffic and be in the office by 7. It also gets me the early bird parking rates.
I can’t imagine it costing over $100 a day. I wouldn’t take the job in the first place.
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Yeah, there are some crazy laws out there. I’ve watched youtube videos that appear to be in China where people run in front of cars trying to be hit. Often they literally run up to the car - that stops before hitting them - and ram their head into the grill or even the windshield, breaking it. Then when they see the driver has a dash cam that recorded the whole thing, they shirk off.
The reason is that if you injure someone with your car, you are basically responsible for them for life.
An interesting outgrowth of this is that if people really DO injure a pedestrian, they may back over them to try to kill them. Yep. It’s a thing there. You don’t have to support a person any more if they’re dead.
It’s that ol’ unintended consequences thing.
Similar: People in China get a significant reward if they catch you on dash cam breaking traffic laws. So people will block your car any way they can until you do something illegal to get around them. Then they turn you in, using the dash cam footage as proof. I believe the fines are in the thousands of dollars, but I could be mistaken.
One leaves the US at their peril in the world in which we live today. We are all targets of both bad people and crazy governments.
Keep it up Cueball. The “rich” are leaving in droves.
I make a trip to New York’s Finger Lakes every other year as a family vacation and that is as far East as I ever intend to go.
I have been to Boston twice. Once for personal reasons and once for business. Those two trips were enough to teach me that the average East coaster is bonkers.
Socialism has ruined the East Coast and it is metastasizing to the rest of the country.
I think I will go ahead and begin the mourning of my country. I was raised in the 60’s and 70’s. The culture that I grew up in is gone and the corpse of that culture is quickly decaying away.
On the East Coast that corpse in nothing but yellowing bones.
Cuomo said the plan will: “will endure to the benefit of Manhattan real estate interests”.
Typical of American “progressives”, their policies (helping jam more and more folks into Manhattan high rise apartments), no matter what the appeal is to the poor and middle class, it is really about benefiting some rich constituents of the progressives (like academia or the health care industrial complex, or in this case the Manhattan real estate interests).
Evil, stupid and ugly. Cuomo is the real face of the Democratic Party.
Why is Werpin who represents middle class section of Queens " being inundated with calls from constituents alarmed by the congestion plan?" “A lot of people, they have no choice but to drive in,” Weprin said. I grew up in the NYC metro area. This is just another Dem tax gouging of the public. The millionaires are moving out and now Cuomo has to cover the tax shortfall. It is total BS.
Over $10 to Drive in Manhattan? What We Know About the Congestion Pricing Plan
With the exodus of wealthy people from NY, in time maybe nobody will drive there.
Let’s see. New York or India? India or New York?
‘Think I’ll go to Hungary and Poland.
As an occasional visitor to NYC who hasn’t spent a night here in over 20 years, I would neither drive my own vehicle there nor rent a car. Instead, I’d use a taxi. Definitely on my list of places I least want even to visit.
The Hudson River may as well be the Atlantic Ocean.
I guess New York was never that great.
“Thanks Gov. Cuomo, i’ll make damn sure the next time I have to spend a week working in NY city i’ll be getting my accomodations in NJ.”
Make Manhattan condo, townhouse and home owners pay the congestion tax. It is they who Cuomo is protecting. They want quiet, let them pay for it. It will also pay for restaurant losses due to this new tax.
Where is Korea town in Manhattan. Never heard of it.
The trick is to negotiate for company paid parking as I did in the late 70’s after wife and I moved to Upper Montclair. Back then a 30-45 min drive to offices in mid-town. Lot was 1/2 block from office. Never even knew or cared what garage rates were, secretary gave me my monthly tag and I was good. Very convenient for nights out on the town. Even back then, it was a platinum perk.
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