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Adriano Espaillat Was for Cut-Through Traffic Before He Was Against It

12:28 PM EST on March 6, 2012

Adriano Espaillat

I nearly spit out my coffee when I saw that Adriano Espaillat had signed on in support of the Inwood slow zone application.

See, while he endorsed Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan, the state senator from Upper Manhattan adamantly opposes placing tolls on Harlem River bridges, preferring that Inwood remain a bypass for toll-shopping motorists bound for the Bronx and Westchester.

Public remarks indicate that Espaillat is well aware of the added burden on the neighborhood, but he believes it's worth it to keep motorists' expenses down. He also claims that most local residents, the vast majority of whom don't own cars, feel the same way.

So now that he’s helped make sure there will be plenty of rat-running traffic through his constituents' streets for years to come, Espaillat is concerned about those drivers putting lives at risk as they whip past the schools, parks and playgrounds of northwest Inwood.

I can hear the horns as I type. Thanks for the assist, senator.

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