The Thing About Traffic Is, It’s Just Sooo Boring

The problem with perseverating on traffic issues is that you have to start seriously considering other mitigation schemes — even if they don’t come with a giant pot of money:

Mayor Bloomberg, who once insisted the proposed Cross Harbor Tunnel would “destroy neighborhoods,” said yesterday he would be willing to take another look at the plan.

Bloomberg told U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a proponent of the tunnel, that he and Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff would meet with him to discuss the plan — which would connect Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island with the national railroad freight network.

“I’m not so sure he’s wrong,” Bloomberg said after being quizzed by Nadler during a speech to the New York Building Congress. “It’s not the worst idea. It has some problems and who knows?”

The mayor’s comments came as a surprise to members of a Queens community group who had hailed him as a hero during Bloomberg’s 2005 reelection campaign when he declared, “We should not build this tunnel.”