Comments on: Congestion Pricing in New York

By: Frank Colao

Frank Colao — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:24:43 +0000

This is just another intolerable tax, especially for small business people like myself who have to work in NYC. Having a commercial vehicle, I’d be charged $21 and that would go up every couple of years. Bloomberg is already fleecing people with his gestapo parking ticket tactics. And the idiot traffic agents don't do anything to ease traffic. Also, the bridge & tunnel tolls just went up. That didn't do anything for congestion. So all the trucks, cabs and busses are going to go away with congestion pricing?
The supporters of this tax are ignorant.

By: blanca fernandez

blanca fernandez — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:28:00 +0000

MODERATION IS THE RECOGNITION THAT RESIDENTS OF THE usa MUST PRESERVE FREEDOM.

By: blanca fernandez

blanca fernandez — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:26:33 +0000

Comment:
My husband and I have doctor appoints at 80th St and dental appointments for special surgery, and knee replacements schedules at Mt. Sinai, and New York Presbyterian twice this year. Care is excellent, but we are elderly and paying additional fees to parking which is very high, the tunnel which jumped to 8 dollars recently both of which come to around 40 dollars now + add congestion pricing? I realize this is no longer a free, just society. I have lives here my life– medical issues are important to the quality of our life. STOP TAXING US ON OUR SURVIVAL!
AN IRATE, RETIRED, TAX PAYING RESIDENT OF HOBOKEN.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:16:46 +0000

Congestion pricnig is an invasion of privacy for everyone, with or without a car. It would be great to have less congestion on the streets in Manhattan, however one aspect which I have not seen discussed is the fact that the program will install several thousand TV cameras which are designed as both face recognition cameras as well as license plate recognition capabilities. The result will be that every aspect of every New Yorkers life will be observable and trackable. All elements of privacy will be eliminated. Though the program is supposed to work from 6AM to 6PM, there is little doubt that the location of people and cars will be tracked 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.

Before Congestion Pricing is passed, privacy issues MUST be discussed and strong protections must be put in place. Perhaps a special provision to the law should include a law stating that all files are to be destroyed and the data expunged after a set period of time, such as 24 hours.

Let's make a better City, but without the total loss of privacy.