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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Congestion Pricing

« Last post by JK resident on Today at 03:41:44 PM »

I’m with Whoopi 100%! I thought I would never say that. NYC will never be Amsterdam. Now with the snow storm sanitation can’t clean as quickly with all these concrete islands in the middle of the road. Also most air pollution in NYC is caused by big buildings burning heating oil winter and summer. Cars are actually very clean. Diesel trucks and buses also pollute much more than thousands of cars. Modern car engines are just that efficient.


https://nypost.com/2019/01/17/whoopi-goldberg-still-pissed-over-nyc-bike-lanes/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Congestion Pricing

« Last post by Alfster on Today at 02:20:25 PM »

  Many causes of congestion are the existence of bike lanes that are unoccupied for what appears to be over 80% of the time and serve little more than to take away a lane of traffic from other motorized vehicles. 

Other "causes of congestion" include sidewalks, apartments, houses and parks. There are potential lanes for cars there! Get rid of them all!

Note: building more lanes for private automobile traffic does very little to solve congestion in anything other than the shortest of short terms. Traffic flows expand to the space given to it. You have to dis-incentivize car use, and incentivize other travel modes otherwise we are on a one-way ticket to gridlock (in cities) and climate-change induced ecocide (everywhere).

LOL.  If we as a society are to to dis-incentivize private car use then more needs to be done to increase public transportation.  There are far too many "public transit deserts" in NYC that need to be improved.  Oh, what a shame it costs so much to build a monorail system?   

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: These Queens police precincts had the highest & lowest crime rates in borough du

« Last post by dssjh on Today at 02:16:53 PM »

Actually, no.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-115pct.pdf

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Congestion Pricing

« Last post by lalochezia on Today at 01:54:33 PM »

  Many causes of congestion are the existence of bike lanes that are unoccupied for what appears to be over 80% of the time and serve little more than to take away a lane of traffic from other motorized vehicles. 

Other "causes of congestion" include sidewalks, apartments, houses and parks. There are potential lanes for cars there! Get rid of them all!

Note: building more lanes for private automobile traffic does very little to solve congestion in anything other than the shortest of short terms. Traffic flows expand to the space given to it. You have to dis-incentivize car use, and incentivize other travel modes otherwise we are on a one-way ticket to gridlock (in cities) and climate-change induced ecocide (everywhere).

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: These Queens police precincts had the highest & lowest crime rates in borough du

« Last post by JDinJH on Today at 01:12:02 PM »

The crime stats are just as bad, for the most part, in the 115th pct.

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Congestion Pricing

« Last post by Alfster on Today at 12:13:39 PM »

There are very few poor people driving cars? There are a lot of people in JH that have cars that are worth less than $3000. Having a car is a very real need for many elderly and disabled people. These people can’t use mass transit because most stops are not ADA. Congestion pricing would just prevent these people having access to the best hospitals in the national unless you pay the tax. Sounds unfair to me.

I agree.  Congestion Pricing is a horrible idea.  Many causes of congestion are the existence of bike lanes that are unoccupied for what appears to be over 80% of the time and serve little more than to take away a lane of traffic from other motorized vehicles.  "Congestion Pricing" is just a cash grab by the city upon the already heavily taxed driver.

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Real Estate & Home Improvement / Re: Looking to buy 1BR Condo--CASH

« Last post by lalochezia on Today at 12:10:10 PM »

Remember: condos cost more because they are more fungible (i.e. easier to sell to anyone, and often easier to sublet/rent). Thus you're competing with people who want to buy it for an investment, not just as a home.

A co-op as a place to live is a great idea, if managed well; indeed this is one of the reasons the co-op structure was set up.
 As a fungible asset, not so much, since the sale depends heavily on the board interview; the board can prevent or make renting difficult too; this makes them less attractive as investments, lowering the price, which is great if you want to buy & live in one!

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Congestion Pricing

« Last post by JK resident on Today at 12:08:07 PM »

There are very few poor people driving cars? There are a lot of people in JH that have cars that are worth less than $3000. Having a car is a very real need for many elderly and disabled people. These people can’t use mass transit because most stops are not ADA. Congestion pricing would just prevent these people having access to the best hospitals in the national unless you pay the tax. Sounds unfair to me.

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Congestion Pricing

« Last post by dssjh on Today at 11:40:43 AM »

it's worked in other places, and it didn't end civilization in those places. i'm a non-driver, so my two cents may not be worth two cents, but i think it's reasonable. it's not terribly regressive (very few very poor people drive around ny) and it could be tweaked to accommodate professional drivers.

remember, the smoking ban was going to force 33 percent of all bars in nyc to shutter permanently if put into place....

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Congestion Pricing

« Last post by jh35 on Today at 11:39:36 AM »

From the Jackson Heights Post:

Transportation Lobby Group Calls on Legislature to Pass Congestion Pricing, Says It Will Reduce Northern Blvd Traffic

A local advocacy group is holding a rally next week on Northern Boulevard to announce its support for congestion pricing.

Make Queens Safer, a group that advocates for roadway safety, is calling on the state legislature to back congestion pricing arguing that it will help reduce traffic on Northern Boulevard and thereby deaths.

The group says that many drivers use Northern Boulevard in order to get to Manhattan via the toll-free crossing at the Queensboro Bridge—as opposed to using other East River crossings since they have tolls.

The group argues that with congestion pricing all drivers would have to pay to go into Manhattan south of 60th Street, making the Northern Boulevard corridor less advantageous and therefore less trafficked.

Drivers who use the MTA-tolled access points—such as the Queens-Midown tunnel– would be credited upon going below 60th Street providing price equity. Governor Andrew Cuomo, in his state of the state speech on Tuesday, called on the legislature to pass the plan.

The rally, which will take place on Jan. 24 at 8:15 a.m., will be held at 80th Street and Northern Boulevard, where Miguel Torres, an 11-year-old boy, was fatally struck by a dump truck on his way to school at I.S. 145 school in December 2012.

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Wouldn't it be simpler to put a toll on the 59th street bridge?