Nicely 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 acknowledged cause for not doing congestion pricing is much more spurious than the acknowledged cause for doing congestion pricing. It was supposed to scale back site visitors, clear the air, and create funding to make public transit higher so town wouldn’t be such a shithole, however now we are able to’t do it because the metropolis has turn into an excessive amount of of a shithole? Regardless, clearly what’s actually happening is that the ruling social gathering is afraid of how this can 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 no 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 generally proper. The lefty-loosies are right that the governor is spineless:
And the righty-tighties are right that it’s insane to belief these individuals:
By the way in which, in response to the one that’s devoted his life to advancing congestion pricing, that air air pollution it was going to assist tackle isn’t even an issue within the first place:
First SUVs have been melting the planet, now they’re principally innocent:
It’s getting more durable and more durable to maintain up with the newest tendencies in local weather change. It’s nearly like individuals flip the urgency establishing and down relying on what their very own agenda occurs to be on the time.
At this level it will be each concurrently fascinating and horrifying to learn the way 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 most likely stay decidedly low-tech for the foreseeable future:
Not like congestion pricing, which is approach too refined 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 carry upon themselves, however then I keep in mind that I reside right here, so I fake that I don’t by hopping on a motorbike 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.
