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OK, so we were wrong about Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to make NYC green by turning orphans into gondoliers, but he did unveil a far reaching plan that would catapult NYC to the forefront of urban environmentalism during his Al Gore style multimedia speech at the Museum of Natural History on Earth Day yesterday.
“The science is there, it’s time to stop debating it and start dealing with it.”
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a surprise video appearance to applaud the mayor’s “vision”, followed a half-hour later by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who lauded Bloomberg’s “great act of leadership.”
“I’ve thought about this question a lot,” the mayor said. “And I understand the hesitation about charging a fee. I was a skeptic myself. But I looked at the facts and that’s what I’m asking New Yorkers to do.”
As non-car owners we can say we whole heartedly back the mayor’s plan to start charging a congestion fee to get more people taking mass transit. Let’s hope he can find a way to make these ideas stick and keep NYC moving forward and taking the lead on environmental protection.
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1. John F
Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.How about those of us who don’t have adequate mass transit moron? If you haven’t noticed mass transit is not very good in America! Can you imagine an extra 10,000 people on the 4,5 and 6 subway train in the morning? Let’s see if you will be getting to work then. As is I do take mass transit from Fort Lee, NJ but the buses are so over capacity going over the George Washington Bridge that most people have to stand. We don’t have an adequate system to force hard working Americans to take mass transit when none exists. Also let me add that during quiet negotiations between Bloomberg’s administration and the State Senate the bill changed, the money raised from the “Not a Commuter Tax” was originally supposed to go into a Mass Transit fund but now it will go into the New York State General Fund just like the lottery which was originally supposed to help reduce school taxes. You liberals have no idea about anything do you? This tax people will have to pay as they do not have any other choice but to drive into the city to work, and with that said they will cut back elsewhere like eating a lunch out, going out for happy hour after work, buying that extra dress shirt or going to the movies and therefore my liberal friend it will hurt the economy severly. Also as trucks will have to pay $21 to enter as for their toll, well Fed-Ex, UPS and DHL who have to deliver mail to businesses will have to pass that on to business who will then pass it on to the consumer and therefore prices increase.
You can’t force people to take mass transit until you have mass transit for them to take!
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 11:39 am | Permalink
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