CARS MEAN 52,000 FEWER JOBS IN NEW YORK CITY AND A $13 BILLION HOLD IN THE CITY’S BUDGET, says a prominent business coalition. “Traffic congestion is now a brake on the economy,” said the brilliantly eloquent Kathryn S. Wylde, chief executive of the Partnership for New York City.
The equally sound-bite savvy Environmental Defense Fund claims less cars would “cut air pollution and, as a result, illnesses like asthma.”
One proposal to reduce traffic: a $7 fee on all cars and trucks driving below 60th street.
Just a wild guess, but Recharger, a former cabby, thinks this proposal has roughly same chance as Jeter and A-Rod becoming domestic partners.
-- Russell Karpov