{"id":3240,"date":"2008-03-14T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T13:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/lets_say_for_example_that_i_dont_own_a_car_mainly_because_its_ridiculous_to_own_a_car_in_a_city_with_a_public_transport_system_like_the_one_new_york_has_but_one_day_i_rent_a_car_or_someone_loans_me_"},"modified":"2008-03-14T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T13:43:10","slug":"lets_say_for_example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/lets_say_for_example.html","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Say, For Example, That I Don’t Own A Car, Mainly Because It’s Ridiculous To Own A Car In A City With A Public Transport System Like The One New York Has, But One Day I Rent A Car, Or Someone Loans Me A Car So I Can Go To The Beach, Or Move Furniture, Or Take My Elderly Great-Grandmother To The Doctor . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . does that mean that I can’t park it in front of my house because I don’t have the right permit? I don’t know, why don’t you tell me<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a residential parking permit plan on Wednesday to bolster his controversial proposal to charge Manhattan-bound drivers a “congestion-pricing” fee — and the permits quickly had the desired effect, swaying two ambivalent Brooklyn lawmakers toward supporting the fee.<\/p>\n

The mayor’s congestion-pricing proposal, which would charge $8 to enter Manhattan, has been under fire from Brooklyn elected officials for ignoring the possibility that many drivers would avoid the fee by parking in and around Downtown Brooklyn and continuing their commutes from there.<\/p>\n

Officials said the residential parking permit plan should ease that concern.<\/p>\n

Indeed, hours after the mayor’s announcement on Wednesday, skeptical Councilmembers Letitia James (D\u00e2\u20ac\u201cFort Greene) and Bill DeBlasio (D\u00e2\u20ac\u201cPark Slope) both said they were now more likely to vote in favor of congestion pricing.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Aaron Brashear, a Greenwood Heights activist, added that the plan was “just a bunch of bulls–.”<\/p>\n

“[If Park Slope got parking permits] suddenly Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights, and Sunset Park would become parking lots,” said Brashear, who owns a car.<\/p>\n

“We’re already seeing people do the park-and-ride in our area. And there’s no congestion pricing yet.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . does that mean that I can’t park it in front of my house because I don’t have the right permit? I don’t know, why don’t you tell me: Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a residential parking permit plan on Wednesday to bolster his controversial proposal to charge Manhattan-bound drivers a “congestion-pricing” fee — and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","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=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}