Posted on 06/27/2023 5:13:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Converting to electric stoves isn’t the problem. The problem is that cooking the food like they do needs gas stoves because of the uneven cooking using electric stoves.
Fast Pass Electronic device reading license plates which will be linked to your credit card from which you’ll get a bill every month.
Had a problem with the system once. A reader in Texas misread a plate and attributed it to our company. The fines and penalties piled up to about $3500 before I could make someone understand we operate Peterbilts and the Truck in the photo was a Volvo.
>>Soon, only the rats and the illegals will be left in New York City.<<
I don’t have a problem with that. They deserve each other.
That’s just 23 more reasons why I will NEVER go to the Democrat Liberal Sh!t Hole known as NYC!!!!
There are a lot of working poor who commute into New York City in beat up jitneys who are now going to pay more for that ride.
I travel from Maryland to New England frequently. I go by way of Scranton simply to bypass NYC.
Please, lock them inside and don’t let them pollute the rest of the nation.
I’m pretty sure it won’t impact commercial vehicles.
Poor people in Manhattan? What few of them exist in Manhattan do NOT have cars. Nor does anyone who is middle class.
But it’s taxation with representation.
“Tolls are optional. There’s always a way to get to your destination without paying. This proposal blocks off public access entirely unless you pay.”
Only a few rutes from outside Manhattant into Manhattan without paying a toll, and for that few the traffic delays on the few routes without tolls often have such dense and congested traffic that you wished you’d paid the toll on one of the other routes. At least in most cases with tolls, the toll is not charged to escape Manhattan.
The tolless routes into Manhattan are:
Brooklyn Bridge and Manhttan Bridge from Brooklyn
Queensboro Bridge from Queens
Several local Bridges across the East River from the Bronx (which puts you into highly cangested northern Manhattan north of 168th Street).
In those cases at least you are going from one part of NYC to another. Though some folks living out on Long Island, will, after travelling all the way into Queens or Brooklyn will try to ditch the main highway from the east into Manhattan, which goes through the Midtwon tunnel (a toll) and venture over the congestion of Queens or Brooklyn to get to a lower Manhattan bridge without a toll.
From north of Manhattan, you can take Broadway south from Yonkers through the northwestern side of the Bronx, and on south through Harlem and down into the rest of Manhattan.
From the west (New Jersey) there is no entry to NYC without a toll.
And the way they are projecting to do the “congestion” pricing, even if you manage to use the ways into Manhattan that do not have a toll, they want to charge just being on the Manhattan streets anywhere south of 59th Street.
Parking garages will bloom all over northern Manhattan north of 59th street and nearest the subways, offering rates to compete with the congestion pricing. Makes me wonder if they and real estate developer interests are not part of the push for congestion pricing in Manhattan.
Interestingly, that’s precisely the kind of commuter the MTA is trying to get off the city’s midtown Manhattan streets.
“The problem is that cooking the food like they do needs gas stoves because of the uneven cooking using electric stoves.”
We need to yell from the rooftops, “NO EXEMPTIONS!”
Won’t be long until they charge you to get OUT...
I lived there. There are plenty of people whom considered poor by NYC standards who need to commute by car for one reason or another. Lots of low wage repair guys and handymen for example.
When I left in ‘87 daily parking in my office building (55 Water St.) was $15. It’s now around $40. I don’t think low-wage guys can afford $800 monthly in parking: that’s who subways and buses are for.
There is still street parking. If you’re a contractor and work out of your vehicle, you’re probably not going to be regularly parking in garages. This toll is going to be a backbreaker for the average blue collar contractor. It’s going to look like an auto show with all the exclusively high end cars going into NYC now.
After the Bragg prosicution, I won’t set foot in Manhattan.
At least in the US, there is no city that has walkers as NYC does. There are plenty cars driving around, but the phenomenal % of people walking the vast sidewalks is unbelievable. They should be happy with that. Most people walk there. The streets are still filled, especially with cabs (which ought to tell you something), but no city has walkers as NYC. Again, why do this if that is the case?
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