Anti-Idling Laws Pass in NYC
On Wednesday, the New York City Council’s Committee on Environmental Protection approved two measures to curb idling. One bill cuts Idling times near schools to one minute and the other expands the enforcement agencies to include both the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Sanitation. Before the bills were passed on Wednesday, Council Member John Liu held a rally at City Hall. Hear some of the support for the bill in this brief roundup.
When I read the title, I thought this would be about people stopping at opening bridges or other places where there was a long delay but still being in their car. Over here in the Netherlands there are signs next to bridges telling people that if the bridge is open they should turn their engines off while they sit in their car.
However, it's not that. People are leaving their engines running when they are not even in the car. I don't get this at all. Why would anyone do this ? What is the advantage ? Doesn't it also mean you have to leave the keys in the ignition making the car easier to steal ? Except in the rare circumstance of having a weak car battery and being concerned that they engine won't re-start, what is the point ? Why do they do it at all ?
When I was a kid, and we had a day trip at school, drivers would keep the bus idling while we're loading it. It would stay like that for half a hour, with us, kids, inside the bus, breathing that. And in Brazil, the Diesel is S2000 (2.000 Sulphur ppm).
This is an absolute bunch of CRAP. This will give Bloomberg and his parking agent minions more excuses to give out tickets to drivers. The HILARIOUS thing is that Mayor Billionare routinely ignores this law with his GAS GUZZLING SUVs.
All of you are ignorant SHEEP.