The congestion-fee con: Letters | New York Post – Latest News
The Issue: Complaints from New Yorkers about the actual impacts of congestion pricing in New York City.
The Post is correct: Congestion pricing has not labored within the Big Apple, and site visitors and retail costs are up (“That’s a toll lotta bull, Kat,” Dec. 4).
What’s going to occur if the daytime congestion price for vehicles goes up to $15? I can solely think about what the price shall be for business automobiles that convey us our food and requirements.
John Giriat
The Bronx
Anyone driving or taking a cab down Fifth Avenue can see that there’s more congestion than ever.
Double-parked vans and the bus lane go away just one lane open for vehicles. You’re fortunate if you happen to get to go one block earlier than the sunshine adjustments. This complete concept of a congestion payment is completely insane.
Melanie Coronetz
Manhattan
One solely wants to take a look at the site visitors going over the Ed Koch Bridge within the morning hours to appreciate that none of these drivers are going for pleasure rides within the metropolis. These are laborious working, law-abiding residents who’re straightforward marks for the federal government rip-off of congestion pricing.
One may also stroll up to the Queensboro Plaza subway station and watch as quite a few people bounce the turnstiles. These are the people our governor and progressive politicians are defending.
The fare beaters need to pay their share to experience the subway, and the hardworking vehicle drivers need to have the ability to drive freely and never be punished as they earn an trustworthy dwelling.
William Carroll
Woodside
As Capt. Louis mentioned to Rick in “Casablanca”: “I am shocked, shocked” that congestion pricing isn’t working.
Thanks to Gov. Hochul, the one factor that congestion pricing has performed is raise costs for the average shopper.
I hope that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is profitable within the legal problem to strike down this coverage. It’s disheartening when voters endure the implications of frivolous legal guidelines.
James F. Marchese
West Islip
Who else sees the madness of charging middle-class suburban and outer-borough residents a congestion payment to discourage them from driving into the town, whereas the town smooths the way in which for billionaire builders to plop 70-story buildings within the center of some of our most fascinating and already congested residential neighborhoods?
D. M. Markowitz
Schenectady
The Issue: A Holocaust survivor barred from talking at a center faculty because of his pro-Israel views.
The choice by Principal Arin Rusch to forestall Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann from talking at MS 447 isn’t an remoted gaffe — it’s simply one other occasion of her placing ideology over instructional accountability (“H’caust speaker ‘censor,’ ” Dec. 4).
To keep away from an uncomfortable political dialogue, she censored a major historic source. This failure is so profound, it’s virtually a textbook.
Todd L. Pittinsky
Port Jefferson
I discover it appalling that a principal would deprive her college students of the possibility to be taught historical past firsthand from somebody who truly skilled it. Why? Because he helps a nation at present defending itself from complete annihilation by a brutal enemy.
If Arin Rusch is an instance of management in New York City public faculties, God help us.
Marsha Motzen
Englewood, NJ
My father, a Schindler’s checklist Holocaust survivor who spent his life speaking to college students and academics from elementary faculty by way of school, was welcomed in every single place.
What has occurred to our training system that a 85-year-old Holocaust survivor is informed he’s not a good match to talk at a center faculty? Rusch’s egregious and blatantly antisemitic choice ought to be grounds for rapid dismissal.
Betty Schwartz
Livingston, NJ
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