Permitting is fine by me but only if you have to re apply for a permit and the number of permits gets reduced over time regularly. Problem is if you have resident permits, how do you get rid of them after it was such a hard task of getting them.

It's like free street parking. After decades of it how do you tell people they have to pay for it now.

To be fair, you were passed out on the sidewalk.

Look, I'd love to eliminate street parking entirely, but that's not happening any time soon.

Roughly 30% of traffic in the city right now is people circling for parking. Create a permitting system and you eliminate that pretty much overnight. A lot of people also drive in with the expectation that they'll be able to find a spot on the street, which, depending on the location and time, is very possible. Even if they can't half the time and have to go to a garage, they may consider that worthwhile. (For what it's worth, I live off 2nd Ave in Midtown and there are almost always spots on both 2nd and 1st available). If you make it so commuters know they'll have to pay for the garage every time, they may pick the train instead.

The test strips detect 10 nano grams per milliliter. A gram is 1000 milligrams. There are 1000 nano grams in a milligram. Yes.

Name or link please?

>Parking is the biggest factor in determining whether people will drive.

Maybe. But you are not talking about eliminating parking. Just assigning them to certain group of people.

It's Friday night. How many open parking spots you see out your window? How many open parking spots would there be if there were parking permits?

Three things here:

1. Working class people overwhelmingly don't own cars in this city. The median income for car owners is 2-3 times higher than non-car owners depending on which borough. They are entirely optional for the over 90% of New Yorkers who live within a 5 minute walk of a bus or train stop.

2. If you can't afford a $50 parking permit, you probably can't afford the $12-15k per year it costs to own a car.

3. You are not entitled to use public space to store your private property for free. The city subsidizes parking to the tune of $40 billion (yes, with a B) every year. You'd be insane to think that's good policy when cars are actively detrimental to the city.

The city is so expensive so let’s start charging residents instead of having free street parking? What your suggesting is just another tax on the working class

Your website recommends testing 50mg. Fentanyl’s LD50 is a little less than 10mg. Are you really saying that testing 5% of a gram is enough to make an informed decision when 1% is enough to kill? What about the other 95%?

You have the arrangement right, but the person you're replying to had it right too. It was a massive issue after post-WWI inflation. Reading the wording of the contracts I don't really get it. The contracts say the fare will be a nickle until 1966. But there it is:

> Well before [the price increased to a dime in 1948] the issue of whether to increase the fare had challenged many mayors, become the subject of campaign promises and provoked fierce clashes with powerful interest groups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/nyregion/mta-fare-hike.html

> Mayor John Hylan, who took office in 1918, made the nickel fare a linchpin of his administration and a cudgel he used against the IRT and BRT. The city’s insistence on retaining the nickel fare became a political hot potato that affected every mayor from Hylan to William O’Dwyer, who took office in 1946. During O’Dwyer’s first term, the historic nickel barrier was finally breached, but not before years of contentious, vociferous, and often bitter debates about the merits and problems of charging five cents for a ride that could be twenty miles long from Wakefield in the Bronx to East New York in Brooklyn.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780823261925-009/html

The Zones are hard to compare. For instance in Tokyo, on average the vast majority of the rides I took were about 160-190 yen each way, so basically $1.60-$1.90, on the Yamanote line itself the most expensive is 260 Yen. I definitely spend less money in a Month on the train in Japan than I do on the Subway.

Rides that cost more tend to go further out than the Subway system and would be more comparable to the LIRR or Metro North. But its not a perfect comparison and there are certainly specific places where it could be more, and not every train company has the same price structure.

Additionally, it has the least electricity.

Parking is the biggest factor in determining whether people will drive. Take away street parking from commuters and they'll switch to other modes. Congestion pricing is great, but we should be doing both.

STFU and send it back. POS litigious twats. Rats happen. Sometimes

I loved the willow tree in our backyard when we bought the house and loved getting away from the willow tree when we sold the house.

He wore it on his belt, which was the style at the time.

> the city legislated the fare the could charge.

/facepalm

No wonder they went out of business.

> ewer people pre-loading amounts to a card.

It's a chicken and the egg problem in this case really. I stopped pre-loading my card because the bonus went away.

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I find the emergency services explanation more compelling. Long commutes and family obligations are present in most parts of the NY metro area, but Staten Island is the only part of the metro area that is present in this list.

Might as well just become completely lawless so everyone can be free to be innovation and do whatever they want then.

Oh wow, I had no idea but that makes sense.

Staten Island also has the longest average commutes of any place nationwide, iirc.

How presumptuous. What makes you think OP was the one stuck behind the AZN truck?

Sounds like ippudo at St Marks. I was gonna work there and saw roaches climbing down the big red round table they got. I abruptly stopped eating.