{"id":2353,"date":"2007-05-25T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/this_war_is_going_to_take_many_turns_and_the_enemy_must_be_defeated_on_every_battlefield.html"},"modified":"2007-05-25T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:58:30","slug":"this_war_is_goi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/this_war_is_goi.html","title":{"rendered":"This War Is Going To Take Many Turns . . . And The Enemy Must Be Defeated On Every Battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who block the box are indeed vile scum but is it really possible just to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/25\/nyregion\/25traffic.html\">change the infraction from a &#8220;moving&#8221; to a &#8220;nonmoving&#8221; violation<\/a> (they&#8217;re still moving, right?)? Or maybe no one cares* . . . this, as Hizzoner&#8217;s War on Congestion rolls along unimpeded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ticketing drivers who block intersections would become much easier under a plan announced yesterday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as part of a broader attack on traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city is adding 117 enforcement agents to direct traffic at busy intersections throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal to deter drivers from blocking an intersection, the infraction, now a moving violation, would be reclassified as a nonmoving violation to simplify issuing tickets, the mayor said. The change, which requires Albany approval, would allow traffic enforcement agents to issue tickets to be mailed later by entering a license plate number into a handheld device. Currently, only police officers and a small number of enforcement agents can issue summonses, which must be given out at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The new system would reduce the severity of the offense, which now carries a $90 fine and two points on a driver&#8217;s license. Under the new proposal, a driver would not incur points but would face a fine of $115. Authorizing all agents (there are currently 2,800) to issue tickets would sharply increase enforcement, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the major causes of gridlock occurs when drivers decide to cross an intersection even though there is no room for them on the other side,&#8221; the mayor said at a Times Square news conference. With the changes, he added, &#8220;we&#8217;ll be able to increase the number of tickets we issue, which will ultimately discourage more people from breaking the law.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Q: Is that legal? A: Do I care?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who block the box are indeed vile scum but is it really possible just to change the infraction from a &#8220;moving&#8221; to a &#8220;nonmoving&#8221; violation (they&#8217;re still moving, right?)? Or maybe no one cares* . . . this, as Hizzoner&#8217;s War on Congestion rolls along unimpeded: Ticketing drivers who block intersections would become much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}