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Congestion pricing advocate attacked at NYC subway station — as new $9 toll pushes people into mass transit
NY Post ^ | 1-8-25 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 01/08/2025 3:32:15 PM PST by dynachrome

Be careful what you wish for.

A vocal proponent of the state’s controversial congestion pricing plan who is nudging New Yorkers into the city’s troubled transit system was attacked at a Manhattan subway station over the weekend.

Layla Law-Gisiko, president of the City Club of New York, which sued Gov. Kathy Hochul to implement the unpopular toll for motorists driving into Manhattan, said she was left bruised and battered after the Saturday afternoon attack at the 23rd Street station.

“Today at around 3:30 PM, I entered the subway station at 23rd Street and 5th Avenue,” Law-Gisiko, 53, wrote in a post on X following the attack. “At the bottom of the first flight of stairs, an individual with a shopping cart began screaming at me and spat in my hair.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: congestion; karma; subway
Good.
1 posted on 01/08/2025 3:32:15 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

It is very good! These people should not be able to walk the streets for the rest of their lives


2 posted on 01/08/2025 3:34:43 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: dynachrome

There she is. Here's a quote form her:

"'Victory goes to those who persevere'. I am proud to continue to fight for the rights of the lower and middle class."

3 posted on 01/08/2025 3:35:38 PM PST by simpson96
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To: dynachrome
“This has been a distressing and painful experience.”

God made st0Opit "distressing and painful" for a reason.

4 posted on 01/08/2025 3:35:38 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: dynachrome

Karma is a bitch.


5 posted on 01/08/2025 3:35:44 PM PST by Dave911
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To: Maskot

Immensely proud of herself.

6 posted on 01/08/2025 3:36:54 PM PST by simpson96
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To: dynachrome

In case anyone is wondering why these attacks continue, there was no bond. From the article:

“Police said Timothy Elliot, 45, was nabbed at the station and charged with assault and harassment. He was released on a desk appearance ticket, cops said.”


7 posted on 01/08/2025 3:38:28 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Dave911
Well, this explains a LOT...

"Born in Paris to a French father and a Tunisian mother, Layla Law-Gisiko moved to New York 26 years ago to advance her journalistic career. Since then, Layla Law-Gisiko has produced numerous documentaries on American news for French media such as TF1, France 2 and Canal Plus.

Very active in her community, she has been a member of Manhattan Community Board 5 for 16 years, where she chairs the Land Use, Housing & Zoning Committee, which leads her to negotiate big projects for New York City and to defend a more comprehensive approach to urban planning, inspired by her French origins."

8 posted on 01/08/2025 3:38:36 PM PST by simpson96
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To: dynachrome

President of the City Club?

That’s rich, literally. The economic elite pushing to get the little people off their roads.

A microcosm of the globalist dynamic.


9 posted on 01/08/2025 3:42:50 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Dave911

Is Karma her nickname?


10 posted on 01/08/2025 3:43:54 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: dynachrome

Maybe there is at least a little justice in the universe


11 posted on 01/08/2025 3:48:44 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: dynachrome

No off-duty Marines were there to help? Oh yeah. Never mind.


12 posted on 01/08/2025 3:53:08 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: dynachrome

Her Karma ran over her dogma.


13 posted on 01/08/2025 3:53:44 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: dynachrome

Manhattan residents and buinesses below 59th street will pay a big share of the costs of the congestion pricing as delivery costs for everything there will go up, likely increasing not just delivery of goods to retailers, who will pass on the costs to consumers, but personal deliveries by way of USPS, Amazon, Fedex and UPS as well.

It is really criminal what NY State is doing. The excuse is traffic congestion, but the real purpose is extra funding for the highly corrupted, highly watseful. highly over subsidized and yet greatly in deficit MTA “mass transit” system. Drivers paying to help out a system they largely do not use.

But the Hudson River tolls are the same. They are not tolls equal to recovering the annual costs of the GW Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and Holland Tunnel. The tolls’ revenues exceed those costs and are as high as they are to bail out the debt of the Port Authority of NY and NJ, debt going back to its World Trade Center office tower develpments as well as others things, not the Hudson River crossings.


14 posted on 01/08/2025 4:16:44 PM PST by Wuli
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To: dynachrome

Was this a random attack or did she catch a beating for advocating for more taxes on regular working people?


15 posted on 01/08/2025 4:23:12 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dynachrome

Outstanding...


16 posted on 01/08/2025 4:26:11 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Wuli

“Manhattan residents and buinesses below 59th street will pay a big share of the costs of the congestion pricing as delivery costs for everything there will go up, likely increasing not just delivery of goods to retailers, who will pass on the costs to consumers, but personal deliveries by way of USPS, Amazon, Fedex and UPS as well.”

We did the math on another thread it’s a few cents per ton of freight. A full sized class 8 semi is charged to enter once. If they get in the zone before peak time it’s half off the $21 as long as they stay in zone they can make deliveries all day and only be charged the off peak rate, even if they come during peak they can bring in 50,000lbs of goods for $21, if they come in via the Holland or Lincoln tunnel they get a credit off the charge lowering that $21. Even at full price 25 ton of goods is 70 cents per ton. It was designed to hit commuter cars it’s a tiny fraction for trucks. What it does is encourage trucks to get in zone before morning rush once in they are only charged if they leave and return. With Manhattan traffic you don’t leave and come back in an 8 hour period it takes two hours just to cross the island by vehicle during the day north to south and at last an hour east west. I lived in Hells Kitchen and Brooklyn. My truck stayed states away with my younger brother who used it for 4 years while I was at university. trucks run a route all of there stops are going to be on the island it would be insane to go back and forth you would loose most of the day idling in gridlock no route manager is going to allow that. Modern GIS will group your packages or freight onto ome truck and by the most efficient route maximising right turns if you ask it too.


17 posted on 01/20/2025 7:21:08 AM PST by GenXPolymath
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