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Re: Meanwhile, for the adults on AP who read the posted story....
Author: Anonymoose
Date: 11-17-2024 - 07:50
You mean rightly blocked, no she didn't, she just changed it up.
"Hochul announced Thursday that the toll, which is now set to go into effect in January, will be reduced to a $9 peak fee for cars, down 40% from the $15 toll initially proposed before Hochul paused congestion pricing in June. Rates are also set to be reduced across the board by 40%, including for small and large trucks, while there will be discounts for overnight trips into the central business district, and per-ride surcharges on taxi, Uber, and Lyft rides."
BOB2 Wrote:
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> > > "Now the road ahead looks very different."
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> > Yeah, we will probably have a heterosexual in
> > charge of the DOT who doesn't get in spats with
> > his husband as to whose turn it is to chest
> feed
> > the baby-born-by-a-surrogate mom.
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> Now that we've heard from the 12-year-old child,
> let's look at what this guy has to say...
>
> The article has some fairly accurate views of the
> historic role of Congress. But also has some
> classic "new urbanist" "evil car" nonsense when it
> comes to imposing costly libertarian right wing
> road pricing schemes, by certain so-called
> environmentalist types, on working class folks
> going into New York City to work, with support for
> the area pricing scheme to enter Manhattan, that
> Governor Hochul rightly from implementation. She
> was just trying to prevent the economically,
> environmentally, and politically disastrous
> stupidity.
>
> These "areawide" road pricing schemes are among
> the most regressive forms of "taxation" imaginable
> that you could impose on the "lower" income 80% of
> the drivers affected, who will pay more to commute
> and receive no benefits of any kind from this
> scheme, with very tiny benefits for "some" of the
> next 10%, and about 95% of the benefits going to
> the wealthiest 10% of road users (mostly value of
> time saved), with over half of that going to the
> top 1% of road users, like billionaire former NYC
> Mayor Michael Bloomburg who is a big supporter of
> the NYC pricing scheme, where others are paying
> the costs for his time savings.
>
> When some of these "new urbanist" nitwits are
> crying over their double vodka martini's this
> weekend about the recent events, maybe they might
> want to ask themselves why so many of the
> working-class voters stayed home and/or voted for
> certain other candidates in greater numbers, even
> in NYC?
"Hochul announced Thursday that the toll, which is now set to go into effect in January, will be reduced to a $9 peak fee for cars, down 40% from the $15 toll initially proposed before Hochul paused congestion pricing in June. Rates are also set to be reduced across the board by 40%, including for small and large trucks, while there will be discounts for overnight trips into the central business district, and per-ride surcharges on taxi, Uber, and Lyft rides."
BOB2 Wrote:
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> BOB 33 1/3 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Commenter Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > "Now the road ahead looks very different."
> >
> > Yeah, we will probably have a heterosexual in
> > charge of the DOT who doesn't get in spats with
> > his husband as to whose turn it is to chest
> feed
> > the baby-born-by-a-surrogate mom.
> >
> >
> [pbs.twimg.com]
>
> > =jpg&name=900x900
>
> Now that we've heard from the 12-year-old child,
> let's look at what this guy has to say...
>
> The article has some fairly accurate views of the
> historic role of Congress. But also has some
> classic "new urbanist" "evil car" nonsense when it
> comes to imposing costly libertarian right wing
> road pricing schemes, by certain so-called
> environmentalist types, on working class folks
> going into New York City to work, with support for
> the area pricing scheme to enter Manhattan, that
> Governor Hochul rightly from implementation. She
> was just trying to prevent the economically,
> environmentally, and politically disastrous
> stupidity.
>
> These "areawide" road pricing schemes are among
> the most regressive forms of "taxation" imaginable
> that you could impose on the "lower" income 80% of
> the drivers affected, who will pay more to commute
> and receive no benefits of any kind from this
> scheme, with very tiny benefits for "some" of the
> next 10%, and about 95% of the benefits going to
> the wealthiest 10% of road users (mostly value of
> time saved), with over half of that going to the
> top 1% of road users, like billionaire former NYC
> Mayor Michael Bloomburg who is a big supporter of
> the NYC pricing scheme, where others are paying
> the costs for his time savings.
>
> When some of these "new urbanist" nitwits are
> crying over their double vodka martini's this
> weekend about the recent events, maybe they might
> want to ask themselves why so many of the
> working-class voters stayed home and/or voted for
> certain other candidates in greater numbers, even
> in NYC?
