Tail trying to wag the dog.

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Hi, truck gets loaded up at the warehouse based on a route. More stops can be added to the route, a real tangible increase in productivity and commerce. Truck capacity is rarely an issue. If you have a simple office job or service job where you don’t have any sort of exposure to these sorts of deliveries or commerce, I understand how it might be difficult to conceptualize, but in aggregate these make a majority of deliveries by weight and volume, not Amazon boxes and door dash, which may be more visible to laymen.

So how would you explain that delivery drivers can make more deliveries if there is no congestion. You would still have to travel out of the city to get the things you are delivering. You are ok with companies paying the same toll multiple times to get product into the city? Seems to me like people want this more for the city to get money rather than less cars. It just doesn’t make sense to me at all. Like I said before I bet you would have a different tune if this would be a toll on Walking around the city. There’s millions of people that congest the sidewalks daily, why not tax them also if they want to walk around?

That’s a fair argument

Right, just because they’re “set” doesn’t mean they can’t be unset and reset. In one of my previous careers I regularly had to book van couriers for deliveries. That business could potentially be more efficient. In my current business I have deliveries made in NYC from a warehouse in Connecticut. That happens whenever I need to order materials, it’s not “set”.

The problem is that people sue the cops even when the cops did everything they were trained to do. And sometimes they win. So you can’t fire your employee for following orders.

For example, the lady that refused to wear a mask in the subway system, was asked to leave, refused, put her hands on cops and they arrested her in front of her child. She’s suing for TEN MILLION DOLLARS. And obviously there’s a lawyer out there that think she has a case and trying to get a million dollar payday for himself vs a city employed lawyer maybe making 100k win or lose.

The poor drive in Queens, tons of areas with poor transit access that it makes more sense to buy a car.

Make more deliveries? Unless you talking about Uber eats or DoorDash, daily deliveries are mostly already set. A driver doesn’t magically get another load for deliveries while ALREADY being in the city. They would have to leave and come back just to PAY another toll. Make it make sense. You can go back and forth all you want but the bottom line is that it will help NOONE but the city(more money). Don’t cry when every single thing you need goes up in price again because of this.

Truck Fump

Does your body even digest it?

Before congestion pricing is implemented I’d like to see NYPD out ticketing double parked vehicles that are the root cause of a majority of traffic congestion in NYC

I think you mean you’d like more red and green arrows for turning vehicles so they don’t mix with pedestrians. But this is less efficient for most of the day outside rush hour

Sure, but a settlement is even weaker than a preponderance of evidence, right?

The result of a civil lawsuit should be the stepping stones to a criminal case against the officer.

It makes no sense to me that cars are given a green light to go (either straight, turning left, or turning right), and if they are turning left or right, pedestrians also have the walk light on these crosswalks to the left and right of the street. This is what makes it so dangerous for pedestrians: cars and people walking are allowed (by the light, but not by law) to occupy the same space at the same time. Have all red lights at the same time that all crosswalks have walk lights, then, have vertical grid green, then horizontal grid green.

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Cops got bored during their lunch break.

Trash like that are so, so tough.

I don’t take the bus too often but had to bring my daughter to a new dentist and go from west village to east village - got on the m14 and forgot that there are no cars allowed on 14th for a big chunk. We flew! I’d definitely be more likely to take the bus if more crosstown streets were just for them.

Foot cramps brah

I'm all for congestion pricing to keep some folks out of Manhattan. However, there are just too many taxis and other livery vehicles on some streets. 6th Avenue is a perfect example. You have multiple subway lines right there. You have buses right there.

I used to have a commute that would take me across 23rd. I used to lol when I'd basically walk at the same speed as the bus traveling across the length of it.

Because according to the way he feels, congestion pricing won’t work.

Drawn in chalk. So edgy. Losers.