Once again it is our good friend Glenn McAnanama of Upper Green Side, this time explaining what 86th Street means for the Mayor Bloomberg's Congestition Pricing plan and the benefits to delivery and emergency vehicles.
Glenn tells it like it is!
[...] In this StreetFilm, Upper Green Side's Glenn McAnanama takes viewers on a brief tour of 86th St. and Second Ave., a heavily congested intersection on the northern boundary of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed congestion pricing zone. It's 4:00 pm and it's ugly. Filed by Aaron Naparstek under Streetsblog Link Share this [...]
How can you consider congestion pricing when illegal permit abuse is still rampant in NYC? First things first - Let's take care of eliminating permit abuse caused by 150,000 government sector commuter vehicles with permits, all parking in Manhattan virtually unhindered. Most government sector commuters choose to bring in their cars to Manhattan because they have "free" (albeit illegal) parking. When permit abuse is gone - NYC will reap the same benefits of less congestion, better air, better quality of life, and $46-million a year more in parking meter revenue alone [Bruce Schaller report 2006].
One of the problems with that question is that while illegal parking permit abuse is indeed an issue, most of abusers already have their parking space-illegal or otherwise-no?
Congestion pricing is knocking out the people circling the block endlessly looking for legal parking, producing pollution and clogging up the streets, as well as the other people who could be taking public transit to town. What is the percentage of traffic that is actually just people looking for parking? I bet it's way over 150,000. Check out Dr. Shoup's report on just that: "The High Cost of Free Parking" Anyway. I agree, lets take care of the permit abuse, but lets not be so myopic as to wait on any measure that could help reduce traffic until we are successful at another one. We have to take these issues on from every angle until there are real results.
thanks for your comment.
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