{"id":2920,"date":"2007-11-20T01:03:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/11\/you_want_to_die_on_that_hill_how_about_the_one_near_103rd_street.html"},"modified":"2007-11-20T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:03:24","slug":"you_want_to_die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/you_want_to_die.html","title":{"rendered":"You Want To Die On That Hill? How About The One Near 103rd Street?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of a problem when the people who would benefit the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/66706\">have turned against the proposal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s congestion pricing is facing growing opposition, with more Manhattan voters opposing the plan than supporting it, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of Manhattan voters opposing congestion pricing rose to 47% from 36% in August, while those supporting the plan fell to 46% from 54%. Overall, the poll found that 61% of New York City voters now oppose the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is traffic congestion a big problem? Almost all New Yorkers say yes,&#8221; the director of Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, Maurice Carroll, said in a statement. &#8220;Is congestion pricing the answer? Almost two-thirds say no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outer boroughs, many of whose residents commute into the city center, have been generally opposed to congestion pricing from the beginning, making Manhattan&#8217;s support crucial to the plan&#8217;s success. The poll found that 65% of Queens residents, 63% of Brooklyn residents, 70% of Bronx residents, and 63% of Staten Island residents oppose congestion pricing.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of a problem when the people who would benefit the most have turned against the proposal: Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s congestion pricing is facing growing opposition, with more Manhattan voters opposing the plan than supporting it, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. The proportion of Manhattan voters opposing congestion pricing rose to 47% [&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-2920","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\/2920","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=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}