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Grace (not verified) says:
This plan is one of many. We all must share the burden of both the CO2 emissions and funding mass transit. Yes, tax gas guzzling cars at the point of sale and/or their toxic fuel, and incentivize the purchase and use of "green" cars. But NO mass transit plan to reduce car traffic into and within Manhattan can be accomplished without treating the source of the cars.
If there is not enough room at any price at LIRR or Metro North stations (part of the MTA), then how can you take the train. You don't; you take a car. So part of the plan must be to fund increased parking at the "railheads" and/or park and ride lots. It can be done using the increased tolls ON EVERY BRIDGE TO MANHATTAN (with reductions on stickers for city primary residents and on times of day), increased meter/munimeter rates, treating "black cars" as private cars; charges for ALL street parking in the borough, double parking enforcement including trucks, no parking on any streets or avenues with buses (should take care of some double parking problems), plus surcharges on taxis into the zone below 60th Street (how to collect those?). Or of course, (dare I say it?), we could reinstate the commuter tax and designate it for mass transit. Pick you poison!
This plan is one of many. We all must share the burden of both the CO2 emissions and funding mass transit. Yes, tax gas guzzling cars at the point of sale and/or their toxic fuel, and incentivize the purchase and use of "green" cars. But NO mass transit plan to reduce car traffic into and within Manhattan can be accomplished without treating the source of the cars.
If there is not enough room at any price at LIRR or Metro North stations (part of the MTA), then how can you take the train. You don't; you take a car. So part of the plan must be to fund increased parking at the "railheads" and/or park and ride lots. It can be done using the increased tolls ON EVERY BRIDGE TO MANHATTAN (with reductions on stickers for city primary residents and on times of day), increased meter/munimeter rates, treating "black cars" as private cars; charges for ALL street parking in the borough, double parking enforcement including trucks, no parking on any streets or avenues with buses (should take care of some double parking problems), plus surcharges on taxis into the zone below 60th Street (how to collect those?). Or of course, (dare I say it?), we could reinstate the commuter tax and designate it for mass transit. Pick you poison!