{"id":2697,"date":"2007-08-31T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/maybe_the_question_are_you_very_interested_somewhat_interested_or_merely_just_mildly_interested_in_getting_something_for_nothing_threw_them.html"},"modified":"2007-08-31T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:50:36","slug":"maybe_the_quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/maybe_the_quest.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe The Question &#8220;Are You Very Interested, Somewhat Interested Or Merely Just Mildly Interested In Getting Something For Nothing?&#8221; Threw Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that people know more, they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08312007\/news\/regionalnews\/bronx_jeer_for_traffic_fee.htm\">wildly intrigued<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Opposition to congestion pricing has increased over the last month, and is fiercest in The Bronx, according to a poll released yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Quinnipiac University poll reported that 57 percent of city voters now give a thumbs-down to Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s plan to charge $8 a day to motorists to enter Manhattan below 86th Street on weekdays.<\/p>\n<p>Only 36 percent support the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous poll last month, the split between opponents and supporters was a closer 52-41 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The only borough where the majority of residents stood with the mayor was Manhattan, 54-36 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In every borough, however, congestion pricing took a heavy hit. Opposition reached 74 percent in The Bronx, 61 percent in Queens, 60 percent in Brooklyn and 56 percent on Staten Island.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that people know more, they&#8217;re wildly intrigued: Opposition to congestion pricing has increased over the last month, and is fiercest in The Bronx, according to a poll released yesterday. The Quinnipiac University poll reported that 57 percent of city voters now give a thumbs-down to Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s plan to charge $8 a day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","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=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}