Comments on: Congestion Pricing Back in the News http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/01/10/congestion_pricing_draft/ Blogging the science and policy of global warming Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:13:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: fred1 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/01/10/congestion_pricing_draft/comment-page-1/#comment-726 fred1 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:28:29 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/01/10/congestion_pricing_draft/#comment-726 I think we need to become a communist state. that way no one would be able to afford cars and therefore we could all go back to horse drawn buggies and carriages....would that work? Although the smell might be a drawback. I think we need to become a communist state. that way no one would be able to afford cars and therefore we could all go back to horse drawn buggies and carriages….would that work? Although the smell might be a drawback.

]]> By: Sebb http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/01/10/congestion_pricing_draft/comment-page-1/#comment-691 Sebb Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:14:33 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/01/10/congestion_pricing_draft/#comment-691 Go for it! The idea that the AAA is spending their member's money to fight you, and to produce plans that will actually make traffic worse in NYC is bizarre. (Join "A Better World" for breakdown service without funding AAA's environmentally destructive lobbying - and no I am not associated with the company). Congestion charging has been a boon in London and can easily work in NYC. Cleaner air, faster travel, better public transport, less noise.....the future is there to be claimed. Sebb Go for it!
The idea that the AAA is spending their member's money to fight you, and to produce plans that will actually make traffic worse in NYC is bizarre. (Join "A Better World" for breakdown service without funding AAA's environmentally destructive lobbying – and no I am not associated with the company). Congestion charging has been a boon in London and can easily work in NYC. Cleaner air, faster travel, better public transport, less noise…..the future is there to be claimed.
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