We are a middle-class senior couple who always belonged to the city’s museums and attended Broadway theater even when we were dating and attending NYU. The “Producers” at $400, then “Hamilton” at $1,000 stopped all of that. Paying a fee to drive below 60th street will impact restaurants and shops, as I believe many of us will pursue those activities where we live.
All the rhetoric about funneling the money to improve the subway will never happen as so many promises before like the Lottery and Off-track betting going to education. Besides, subways are not safe, period.
Why hasn’t New York tried the idea of only nighttime commercial deliveries? No recent mayor has demanded the police enforce the traffic, parking regulations like Koch and Rudy. Remember the mostly women in brown uniforms ticketing? Or the tow trucks lurking to take the cars to the pound? Remember the campaign, “Don’t even think about it”? FedEx, UPS, limos, Uber drivers all double park without getting a ticket or even a hassle.
Michael Bloomberg and Bill De Blasio never even tried so now the governor/mayor want to further tax the middle and working classes. Good luck with that.
Steven M Walk
Great Neck
