Fer Mee... the Thing About Congestion Pricing

[ihaveaquestion]

[getagrip_already]

1. He should be clearer - I'm not really sure how he feels about the issue.....

NYC has one of the best functioning public transit systems in the country, and by and large, it is extremely safe.

Sure, you have to keep your spidie senses open, but where don't you?

While I don't live there, I have family there, and have been frequently. I grew up with a mother who was a fashion designer on 7th avenue and we always took the train in. I've taken the subways everywhere evel late at night. Never had an issue.

But you just gotta be able to drive your suburban in town every day and expect free parking and bridges.

The political reality is that without new yourkers on your side, no governor could be elected. And you just know tsf would love to flip the state to get a pardon.

[xocetaceans]

2. Public transportation is a very necessary thing and should be improved. European cities have that mostly completely...

...right. Hopefully, the US can implement it more completely than it currently is.

Regarding "Sure, you have to keep your spidie [Stan Lee wrote, "Spidey".] senses open, but where don't you?", most of the rural areas and small towns of the US don't require that level of caution/attentiveness at all, but maybe that is dependent on the person who is out and about.

[getagrip_already]

3. I was referring to cities... but

I'm sure darker skinned people would have a different answer in sun-downer towns and many maga rural areas these days.

[xocetaceans]

4. And that is part of the divide. That shift in perspective seems not to dawn on people who've never been to cities or...

...experienced anything other than the back forty. That is not saying rural people necessarily have any sort of bad intentions or attitudes. In some cases, they just don't know what others experience and are ignorant or naive. With the internet and much better communications today, perhaps that lack of perspective has been reduced. It could also be that the internet has siloed hate and the algorithms amplify whatever views for which one chooses to search. I don't know which side wins out ultimately, but disinformation, criminality, and hucksterism barely won this last election, and that is not a good sign of positive aspects of the state of the internet as it is.