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“Thums” Down and Zero Unispheres for Queens Pricing Supporters

Oppose congestion pricing and all this could be yours

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Oppose congestion pricing and all this could be yours

If Tony Avella and David Weprin and other Queens City Council members succeed in killing congestion pricing, at least Queens residents who lose out on transit improvements could take comfort in knowing that their representatives will have escaped the wrath of the Queens Civic Congress. Check out this (unedited) warning from the QCC [PDF]:

Queens Civic Congress puts all elected officials and would be ones on notice that the communities are closely following what people say and how they will vote. The Civic community expect the City Council to vote a strong thums down to the congestion tax.” stated Jim Trent, Transportation Chair for the Queens Civic Congress, a the borough-wide coalition of civic and condo, cooperative, tenant and other community organizations. “Anyone who supports the unfair tax and/ or votes for it stands to lose any chance of being ‘awarded” the coveted five unispheres rating; it could costs them as they look ahead to the next election.

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