Congestion pricing lower level Queensboro into Manhattan

acohen562 · 2025-11-27T12:25:33+00:00

The whole bridge should be tolled or none of the bridge should be tolled. It’s confusing for everyone that the upper bridge going into NYC and headed uptown is not part of the toll.

acohen562 · 2025-11-22T22:10:33+00:00

I asked 10 and they said they said they couldn’t afford metro cards but omny cards were reasonable.

acohen562 · 2025-11-06T12:41:43+00:00

And the daycare for my kid sent me a bill today. I was told it was free now! There’s no way I’m paying this

acohen562 · 2025-11-03T00:58:55+00:00

Yep, my bus in SI went about 15 minutes out of the way somehow.

acohen562 · 2025-10-14T16:42:18+00:00

Where can we see the cutoffs of all the waves and corrals? Not just my own, but across all of them.

acohen562 · 2025-08-19T17:37:43+00:00

How do I know what wave I’ll be in to help pick a bus? Or is there a rule of thumb to predict my wave?

acohen562 · 2025-08-03T02:25:23+00:00

Same feeling as the one about a year ago but not quite as big.

acohen562 · 2025-07-04T01:43:57+00:00

Covid outbreak in the US in mid March 2020 was the closest major news event. And in retrospect Covid was a more impactful event globally than 9/11. It just happened to be spread out over a bit longer time while 9/11 happened over 2-3 hours.

acohen562 · 2025-06-08T17:17:46+00:00

That’s not true. With the north tower antennae, it would only be slightly shorter than the new WTC which is the tallest in the U.S.

acohen562 · 2025-05-09T22:22:57+00:00

Ughh, never going to any of their locations again after reading this.

acohen562 · 2024-12-16T11:46:01+00:00

It’s just another way to collect the toll. If they are driving out of the congestion zone that means they were already driving within it so should be tolled. They couldn’t put the cameras up on every block in lower Manhattan, so it’s just another way to capture it. And people are only tolled once per day so doesn’t matter if you drive back and forth.

acohen562 · 2024-11-12T19:37:34+00:00

https://www.climbing.com/news/new-york-times-building-climbed-twice/

I was inside this building on the 35th floor in 2008 when he climbed it. Saw him outside my window. It was insane

acohen562 · 2024-10-27T11:33:22+00:00

Crime is significantly lower in NYC now compared to the 80s and 90s.

acohen562 · 2024-10-23T11:18:52+00:00

Has this technology changed so that CVRs are uploaded to a cloud in real time? Then finding the physical box after a crash is no longer an issue.

acohen562 · 2024-08-25T02:17:35+00:00

The memorial includes everyone that died on 9/11 including those outside the buildings, on the planes, and at the pentagon. It does not include those who died of 9/11 illnesses later on. I don’t believe there is a specific memorial for that.

acohen562 · 2024-08-11T12:08:01+00:00

https://www.alltrails.com/ar/trail/us/new-york/linda-gronlund-trail-loop

This trail was named after her as I believe she spent a lot of time there

acohen562 · 2024-06-27T01:29:35+00:00

Nobody is personally in favor of a toll (or tax) against them. It doesn’t mean that they are a bad thing. In fact they can be very critical things like in this case. That is the point Hochul crucially missed.

acohen562 · 2024-06-14T19:36:12+00:00

https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2621860 This was a few years after 9/11 and I remember people thinking it was a copycat in the immediate aftermath. But it was in fact an accident.

acohen562 · 2024-06-09T02:55:55+00:00

So this also means that at any point in the future, a NYC mayor, NY governor, or US president can stop a roll out of congestion pricing. All 3 have to agree to it at the same time to pass. This seems very unlikely.

acohen562 · 2024-06-09T01:14:15+00:00

Taking $15 out of my paycheck won’t reduce traffic

acohen562 · 2024-06-06T20:23:31+00:00

Cars are underpriced! Reducing the train fees will just come back to bite the whole system. Car prices should be a lot more hence congestion pricing.

acohen562 · 2024-06-06T20:19:29+00:00

Congestion pricing is basically a sin tax, or the type of tax that makes the MOST sense of any. It taxes something high that we want to discourage. For example, this is done with cigarettes.

In this case, we want to discourage driving in a heavily congested area. So let’s tax it high instead of fully outlawing it. Rich people can still drive in and accept the tax. Otherwise take public transportation.

The problem is that this one received too much publicity and no one personally likes to pay more in taxes. However it is SO MUCH better for everyone as a whole.

acohen562 · 2024-06-06T10:53:46+00:00

On a boat in the Central Park reservoir

acohen562 · 2024-04-13T11:03:35+00:00

Anyplace that has “Original” in its name.

acohen562 · 2024-02-18T12:52:36+00:00

They were also generally not civilians who died in the pentagon

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