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podkayne3000 t1_j2c6cbg wrote

Reply to comment by JeromePowellAdmirer in No thanks to Amy DeGuise! by henry_sqared

It’s hard to tell what people’s motives are. If you’re really a regular independent person who’s furious about the hit and run and starts downvoting people, OK.

But it just feels as if the volume of anti-DeGise posts, and the mass downvoting of anyone with a slightly different perspective, are too high to be natural.

The county is doing all sorts of terrible things. It’s letting the state, Brian Stack and Paul Fireman pave over and ruin Liberty State Park, for example. And it’s crushing High Tech. But all we hear about is the hit and run, never anything about the bad things the county and state are doing. Probably because the Republicans running the organized anti-DeGise campaign are best friends with Fireman.

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Brudesandwich t1_j2c3bim wrote

Reply to comment by oatmealparty in Year-end Update on the Loews Jersey Reno from FOL by ludlowfair

The amount of money needed to restore the theater is far more than any community event showing classic movies for like $5 or grant money could do. The restorations alone would cost approximately $75 million. Plus, this city is sorely in need of tax revenue, specifically something that could potentially bring in millions annually in taxes. Whether anyone likes it or not the theater was a major financial drain on the city and continues to be.

Plus, this theater was literally made for "big" events. Classical movies are cool but it's not going to draw a crowd

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Brudesandwich t1_j2c2b4z wrote

Reply to comment by PICHICONCACA in Gridlock downtown on Friday afternoon by Old_Perspective_6417

But the mayor doesn't run NJ Transit so what you do think he can do realistically? NJ Transit is a STATE agency so you need to look towards state politicians who are FOR funding public transit, especially between NJ cities. The bike lanes and Via are options that the mayor and city has direct influence over. He'll just look at what is happening with the turnpike extension plan. Spend $10Billion on widening it that would serve a relatively low amount of people as opposed to using that money that would drastically improve our infrastructure and could connect to other cities. People are partially blaming the mayor but he has no control over the Turnpike extension at all.

Secondly, the rest of the city barely votes and it's not just opinion. Every election is a low turnout, especially outside of downtown. The lowest voter rate is always either Greenville or Westside, Downtown is always the highest. You don't see a correlation here? As much as people like to complain about being overlooked in other sections, barely anyone in these sections is an active participant in the process.

The traffic problem here has very little to do with bike lanes and ubers.

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OtherBarry3 t1_j2c21ic wrote

Reply to Gridlock downtown on Friday afternoon by Old_Perspective_6417

It's been like this pretty much every day this week. Usually this type of gridlock doesn't happen every day so I'm assuming at least some of this is holiday traffic related.

I don't drive or own a car, fortunately/unfortunately I'm the lucky pedestrian that has to walk through the gridlock of NJ drivers that can't be bothered to stop behind crosswalks. At least I don't have to sit & wait in traffic but wow, NJ drivers are terrible.

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oatmealparty t1_j2c1l73 wrote

Reply to comment by Brudesandwich in Year-end Update on the Loews Jersey Reno from FOL by ludlowfair

Well, it doesn't help that the city spent years sabotaging and stealing grant money for the theater that was intended for restoration. If the city hadn't done that, the FOL may have been able to get the theater renovated a long time ago, but Fulop was determined to get the theater into private hands.

It's been frustrating to me as well that the Loews is still in terrible condition, but the city has played a big part in that. And I'm glad the Loews fought to get an agreement that keeps some dates for community events and arts, because the original plan to just turn it over to a multi billion dollar company with little oversight and barely any events for community use was ridiculous.

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diplore t1_j2c0je5 wrote

Reply to comment by bodhipooh in Gridlock downtown on Friday afternoon by Old_Perspective_6417

Can't the city enact some sort of pared-down congestion pricing to discourage using city streets to circumvent traffic? I.e. if you enter JC from specific exits and then proceed to enter the Holland Tunnel before a certain amount of time elapses, you get billed a congestion pricing surcharge? If NYC is allowed to move forward with a much more restrictive congestion pricing model, I can't imagine that this would be illegal.

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