Effectively the large information round right here is that our governor simply bailed on congestion pricing, which was supposed to begin on the finish of this month:
I’ve been skeptical about congestion pricing (not the idea a lot as our implementation of it and rationale for it), however the said cause for not doing congestion pricing is much more spurious than the said cause for doing congestion pricing. It was supposed to cut back site visitors, clear the air, and create funding to make public transit higher so the town wouldn’t be such a shithole, however now we will’t do it because the metropolis has grow to be an excessive amount of of a shithole? Regardless, clearly what’s actually occurring is that the ruling social gathering is afraid of how this may have an effect on them within the upcoming elections as a result of there’s a way on the market that that is yet one more case of progressivism run amok, so like a man with out a condom they’re pulling out on the final second.
Naturally there’s been a lot disagreement over congestion pricing lo these previous years, with each side placing forth arguments each rational and zany, however paradoxically on this messy post-coital second everybody is usually proper. The lefty-loosies are appropriate that the governor is spineless:
And the righty-tighties are appropriate that it’s insane to belief these folks:
By the best way, in line with the one who’s devoted his life to advancing congestion pricing, that air air pollution it was going to assist deal with isn’t even an issue within the first place:
First SUVs had been melting the planet, now they’re largely innocent:
It’s getting tougher and tougher to maintain up with the most recent traits in local weather change. It’s virtually like folks flip the urgency establishing and down relying on what their very own agenda occurs to be on the time.
At this level it might be each concurrently fascinating and horrifying to find out how a lot the cash the state has spent on the moist spot on the sheets that’s the congestion pricing plan over the previous 5 years, however in any case makes an attempt to tame the streets will in all probability stay decidedly low-tech for the foreseeable future:
In contrast to congestion pricing, which is approach too subtle and intellectual, politically talking crushing scooters is a winner, since New Yorkers just about universally detest them, and at this level there are possibly three or 4 Streetsblog readers left who’re nonetheless doing the entire “…however automobiles!” factor when the topic comes up, however that’s about it.
Like many individuals throughout the nation I usually discover myself laughing at New York Metropolis and the foolish issues its denizens so usually deliver upon themselves, however then I keep in mind that I stay right here, so I fake that I don’t by hopping on a motorcycle and heading for the hills:
Now that I’m lastly out of the seemingly interminable overhauling section I can lastly benefit from the bike:
And I’m having fun with it:
It could be a keeper.
