Maybe, one day, New York City will have public transportation so that Cynthia Jones, and other pampered people like her, will be able to get to, say, exercise class without paying increased tolls. We can but dream . . .
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I can think of an exercise that many people, regardless of where they live, can do in good weather, as fast or slow as they wish, for as long or as short a time as they wish, and it doesn't even have to limited to one block.
Hey there funny guy, she was dropped off a block north of the “demilitarized zone” (as New York Patriots have started calling it). She walked at LEAST a block, upwards of SEVERAL!
She’d probably ride the subway if they had a first class car and members only lounge in the station. She’d probably be willing to pay extra for that too.
Maybe they should move upstate to Rochester or Buffalo if they insist on being car dependent. Plenty of Orange Theory locationsto park your SUV in front of up here.
Do you know how many people live in New York and never touch a car. The city is the easiest in the United States. If not the world to get around without a car. They are the reason there needs to be a congestion tax
Driving two blocks from her home, Cynthia was forced to endure the grueling 5-minute walk (uphill, both ways) to pilates.
Meanwhile, after dropping Cynthia off, Mr. Jones drove around for forty minutes looking for street parking.
Cynthia is a hero. Be like Cynthia.
I'm a country bumpkin so please help me understand why people in bigger cities don't walk or bike more and prefer to sit in traffic for four hours just to drive two blocks?
This poor woman actually had to WALK part way to her exercise class??? Oh, the horror!
But at least it saved her from being on a bus or subway with ... those people.
I'm totally for the new pricing,, but I'll be more enthusiastic about it when I can use the subway again. At the moment, I've got 2 broken ankles, 2 crutches, and my Ortho Dr. is on 18th.
I often walk home from my job in Gramercy to Astoria, Queens. We New Yorkers are notoriously great walkers. The idea that she’d complain about this when she was maybe 10-20 blocks or 1-2 subway stops away is amazing.
That doesn't make it something a person wants to ride. Especially with tools or large suitcases. Overcrowded, often filthy, yet more expensive every year with little to no improvement. This is a dumb move that will mostly impact working, blue collar people negatively.
Grew up in NYC, lived in and around it since before the Verrazzano bridge was built and never had a problem with Mass Transit. This isn't the 80s anymore.
Lived there for a decade. Packed in liked sardines. People feel like they have the right to touch and shove you. The smell. No thanks. I like my personal space.
I visited London nearly 20 years ago, shortly after congestion tolls were enacted there - in imitation of similar congestion tolls in Singapore. This is hardly new, and not the personal attack she clearly considers it. She reminds me of people who fight for the parking space closest to the gym door.
Whatever you do, don't take any transportation advice from San Diego. We built an extensive trolley system, yet it fails to have a drop off at the beach or airport. It does stop at all the major malls.
When I visited I was trying to figure out if I could bypass renting a car. Instead I rented a car from LA because I didn’t realize I had to but train tickets in advance so I could pick up another rental in San Diego
It is challenging to get around without a car. San Diego is very spread out and we really don't have a public transportation system that you can rely on to see everything.
The complaints I keep seeing are from rich people, because those are the folks who live in the 60s. One was a rich real estate developer whining that he has to pay more to visit his kids.
At this rate, they’ll need congestion pricing for the areas around the congestion pricing zones due to the congestion caused by the congestion pricing.
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Next spring, will people cheat the system en masse by biking?!
Cynthia has big ankles. It's genetic.
It's almost like they're walking right into the point and still not getting it.
Meanwhile, after dropping Cynthia off, Mr. Jones drove around for forty minutes looking for street parking.
Cynthia is a hero. Be like Cynthia.
But at least it saved her from being on a bus or subway with ... those people.
She should write a novel.
How many times can irony be killed?
But that doesn't mean you should piss on the world's busiest mass transit system moving 5 million people a day.
Only time was leaving the zoo area to normal heights where my airB&b was
I finally saw other neighborhoods & some shopping areas
This is exactly the kind of behavior change the tolls were designed to create. It kept them out of the designated area, didn't it?
Be still my heart.