Community Board 7 Votes Against Congestion Pricing, Cites Issues with Residential Parking Permits
GL Correspondent Anna Lewis attended last nights CB7 Meeting and filed this report:
Brooklyn Community Board 7 (Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park) rejected Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan at its monthly meeting Wednesday night. It objected primarily to the Mayor's inclusion of a residential parking permit system within the congestion pricing plan.
The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) developed the residential parking permit system to address community concerns about a lack of on-street parking potentially caused by congestion pricing.
CB7's objections to the Mayor's proposal reflected concerns raised at two separate community forums, held in Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park respectively. They included the effects of the plan on public space, such as decreased access to public parks and museums; questions over the boundaries of the permit zones and their impact on park-and-ride activity in neighborhoods; the exemption of New Jersey drivers from congestion pricing; and questions about permit regulation and enforcement.
Another major concern was that Brooklyn would not receive an adequate portion of the revenues raised by congestion pricing.
--Anna Lewis
Labels: Community Boards, Sunset Park, Transportation, Windsor Terrace
posted by rsguskind at 8:45 AM
5 Comments:
Amen
thank goodness these people have no actual authority or power.
Do they realize that the permits are an opt-in system and that New York already gets 50% of the tolls from drivers entering from New Jersey?
Reporters shouldn't just repeat back moronic disinformation - NJ drivers are not exempt from congestion pricing. Everyone would pay the same rate to enter the priced zone!
CALL THE BABY BY ITS REAL NAME
TAX TAX TAX
WIT THE NEW TAX PLAN IT IS A TAX MILLIONS OF DALLARS BUT NOT FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
1) THE TAX FROM LOCAL RESIDENT FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO PARK IN THE FRONT OF YOUR HOSE
2) THE TAX FOR ALL SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TO PAY A PLUS TAX FOR DOING BUSINESS
3) TICKETING EVERYBODY WHO WILL PARK VS THE LAW( EVERY CAR WHO IS REGISTER IN NYC HAVE PAID A MINIMUM OF 100 DOLLARS IN PARKING TICKETS EVERY YEAR)
4) THE FEDERAL BIG MONEY FOR THE CITY -"NOT ANY PAY BACK FOR THE LOCAL RESIDENT WHO WILL SUFFER FROM THE PARK AND RIDE AND ALL OUTER NEW REGULATION'S (CALL IT TAX SCAMS)
5) ALL NEW GARAGE SYSTEMS BUSINESS WHO WILL COME UP IN NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE WIILIAMSBURG TO PROVIDE THE PARK IN RIDE FOR OUTSIDERS AND THAT TAX WILL NOT GO TO THE LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS
TAX TAX TAX
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BUT NOT FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
AND EVERY BROOKLYN POLITICIAN WHO WILL SUPPORT A NEW TAX WILL PAY THE FULL
PRICE OF IT !!!
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