NYC General Discussion - You Hear That Giant Sucking Sound?

[Simfan34]

By embracing Bloomberg's idea at long last, New York City has the real potential to ease its traffic woes and help New Yorkers breathe and walk easier:

Congestion Pricing Could Turn Manhattan Into Pedestrian Paradise

A coming fee on vehicles entering Manhattan’s most congested streets won’t just reduce traffic while funding improvements to the subway. It could also lead to wider sidewalks, expanded bus and bike lanes, and new pedestrian plazas.

At least that is the vision that New York City’s transportation chief has for Manhattan if the fee significantly reduces congestion.

“It certainly would open up a lot of pretty transformative possibilities,” said Polly Trottenberg, New York City’s transportation chief, in an interview last week.

New York state lawmakers approved the congestion fee as part of the state’s latest budget earlier this year.

The model for the city lies in London where the success of congestion pricing over the past 16 years has allowed city officials to expand sidewalks and pedestrian areas, add bike lanes and reconfigure roadways to make them more bicycle and pedestrian friendly.

Now, it's time to regain the momentum on pedestrianization.

[ilikeverin]

By embracing Bloomberg's idea at long last, New York City has the real potential to ease its traffic woes and help New Yorkers breathe and walk easier:

Congestion Pricing Could Turn Manhattan Into Pedestrian Paradise

A coming fee on vehicles entering Manhattan’s most congested streets won’t just reduce traffic while funding improvements to the subway. It could also lead to wider sidewalks, expanded bus and bike lanes, and new pedestrian plazas.

At least that is the vision that New York City’s transportation chief has for Manhattan if the fee significantly reduces congestion.

“It certainly would open up a lot of pretty transformative possibilities,” said Polly Trottenberg, New York City’s transportation chief, in an interview last week.

New York state lawmakers approved the congestion fee as part of the state’s latest budget earlier this year.

The model for the city lies in London where the success of congestion pricing over the past 16 years has allowed city officials to expand sidewalks and pedestrian areas, add bike lanes and reconfigure roadways to make them more bicycle and pedestrian friendly.

Now, it's time to regain the momentum on pedestrianization.

That's marvelous, although of course a good way to reduce congestion is to make these changes regardless of how many cars are using the road now.

[Bidenworth2020]

Without impugning his personal or professional integrity, it is fair to ask how he will respond to Legal Aid’s suits against the Human Resources Administration now that he, as commissioner, will be the defendant. ... To be sure, attorneys specialize in being able to switch sides as professional circumstances dictate, but even assuming good faith, it would be hard for anyone to transfer his allegiances and instincts so completely.

(Bolding mine.)

Uh, sure.  Certainly looks to me like "impugning his personal or professional integrity" is kind of what this whole article is about.

I've never seen a politician burn their bridges so quickly. He's negative in approval rating three months in, digging a deeper hole every day, and has pissed off the Governor from his own party.

To be fair, Cuomo is hardly a Democrat.

That's really more a statement of how the Democratic party has lurched far to the left in recent years. Cuomo is a perfectly normal centrist Democrat butting heads with a Mayor who is essentially a Democratic Socialist.

Hell, he's even stopped fracking from going forward by delaying it indefinitely.

Oh please. Cuomo is much closer to being a real conservative Republican than most "conservative Republicans" these days.

EH, Cuomo can be pulled to the left with enough pressure tbf. It sucks, but we can make progress slowly.