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Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com |
Incredible line from MTA board member Norman Brown (a former Long Island Rail Road machinist and union delegate, later transportation policy scholar) from a longer pro-congestion-pricing retort at the board meeting: “If you live in the car, you think of the windshield as the end of your universe.”
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C.V. Danes
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Obligatory reminder that the original point of this whole evolution was to reduce the traffic congestion. Additional funds for MTA was the bonus. Just adding a regressive tax to provide the MTA the money does nothing to solve the original congestion problem.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Former MTA chair Joe Lhota proposes replacing congestion pricing with a sales-tax increase, as if that would be better?
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John W Buaas
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Yes. The car's design isolates you from the space you move through. This also links up w/ an exchange here a while back about how people drive these days as though they are in road rallies rather than sharing the street w/ other cars/pedestrians/cyclists/etc.
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Annmarie
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There is some really good stuff from David Graeber about the American love of cars as keeping our castles (fiefdoms of personal control) moving with and around us at all times. It's a throwaway passage, I think in Dawn of Everything, but I do wish he'd lived long enough to flesh it out more.
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