Simply stated, millions of New Yorkers depend on transit: So, stop with the neo-liberal blather. Get congestion pricing working. Put a price tag on every one of our three million "parking" spaces to fund transit. Get people out of cars and onto trains and buses before the whole goddamn town is underwater because of climate change.
Please.
Kevin Duggan of amNY, as he often does, found a silver lining in the meeting: The MTA inked a deal to roll out cell service in its tunnels and provide free Wi-Fi at its stations. The Daily News dug into a document for an early morning dispatch: The agency will vote on fixing Roosevelt-era signals in Brooklyn before working on busy lines with newer (Nixon- and Reagan-era!) ones.
In other news:
Why are sharks so much smarter than people when it comes to the real danger? (Hell Gate)
Gov. Hochul signed a speed-camera carve-out for Medical-emergency first responders, such as Hatzolah drivers. (Yeshiva World News)
Who's using all those dirt bikes and ATVs that Mayor Adams is so fond of crushing? Delivery workers, many of whom don't realize the machines are illegal. (Documented)
ICYMI: Some entitled Manhattanites think that resident parking permits will save them from having to spend money on garaging their cars. They're wrong. (NY Post)
We love "stupid motorist" pix because, as pedestrians, we are constantly astonished by the sheer incompetence, inattention and lawlessness of the people who routinely operate several-ton vehicles, most of which goes unremarked. On the plus side, simple infrastructure like the bollard in the picture below clearly saves lives when reckless drivers are on the road. (Via Twitter)
"In Stockholm, people really thought that congestion pricing would be the end of the world, the city will come to a standstill, no one would be able to get to work anymore and all the theaters and shops would just go bankrupt. None of that happened."
