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Originally Posted by HipHopSays
OP really our hope ... is to vote out Cuomo/dems? Were you equally willing to vote out Bloomie/reps when he first attempted to get congestion pricing? No one spoke up in the intervening decade or so since then with a better way of financing capital public transit projects - so like london and other cities we are attempting congestion pricing.
I think there will be issues with it for a number of reasons - but like with citibike I will learn to adapt as will the Queens driving folks who I think this will impact the hardest borough wise.
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Bloomberg was a Republican out of sheer political convenience to gain a spot on the ballot in 2001; he is a leftist and had been a Democrat prior to that. And he dumped the party label when it was no longer convenient for him.
Let's be clear, though: while Bloomberg was championing tolls and congestion pricing, it was actual Republicans in the state senate who stopped him from implementing his scheme.
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