Correctly, Streetsblog has lastly given up on congestion pricing:
The reason? Apparently nobody needs it:
That’s difficult, because of until recently Streetblog was saying everybody needs it:
Not like each of this points anyway. They’ll merely decide a model new tax, and in distinction to congestion pricing it’ll more than likely be one you probably can’t choose to avoid:
Though in accordance with the governor there’d be no avoiding congestion pricing each since it’d set off the value of pizza slices to go up:
So I assume you’ll say whether or not or not you drive or not the value of congestion pricing might be…baked into all of the stuff you buy.
Nevertheless congestion pricing or no congestion pricing, points in New York Metropolis are expensive–along with e-bike journeys, and this David Zipper man is nonetheless whining about it:
I don’t know why instantly of us actually really feel like a go to on a bicycle with a motor should worth the an identical as a subway or bus journey, though I’d completely assist making all frequent Citi Bike journeys free and rising the value of the e-bike journeys far more to make up for it. Or, larger however, since numerous e-Citi Bike journeys would more than likely have been bus or subway journeys, why not make up for the dearth of congestion pricing with a tax on these journeys? Congestion pricing was purported to have generated $1 billion yearly, Citi Bike sees one factor like 30 million journeys per yr as of 2022, and as of the highest of 2023 one factor like 46% of those journeys had been on e-bikes. So if we tacked a obligatory MTA surcharge onto each electrified Citi Bike journey, it’d solely worth the e-Citi Bike client…
…$72.46 per journey to offset the congestion pricing pause.
Seems doable to me.
Within the meantime, Paris has put in a single factor like a billion miles of bike lanes for the Olympics:
And has even legalized “salmoning,” my one enduring contribution to the English language:
Plus they even get to keep up their mountain biking venue:
The Video video games will extra strengthen Elancourt Hill’s leisure dimension. Open to all people, it’ll flip into a big trip spot for mountain bike fanatics, regardless of their expertise diploma, along with followers of strolling and jogging. The hill may even flip into an house for family walks in a protected, pollution-free environment surrounded by regenerated nature.
All whereas banning shared scooters:
Rather a lot to the dismay of this lunatic:
Scooters are further pleasing than bikes? That’s merely deranged.
As for New York, we keep a half-assed bike metropolis at most interesting, and in its place of banning shared scooters we merely stick ’em throughout the Bronx:
It’s as a result of of us love throwing e-scooters into rivers, and the Bronx is the one borough in all of New York Metropolis with an exact latest water river.
Speaking of the Olympics, the YouTubes gained’t let me embed the video, nonetheless Australia beat the UK throughout the crew pursuit when a rider slipped off his saddle throughout the closing lap:
I used to giggle on the earlier “no slip system,” nonetheless the Brits had been just a few stitches away from a gold medal:
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Nevertheless the biggest data from the Olympics is the retirement of Phil Liggett:
Mechanical drivetrains, rim brakes, biking caps, Phil Liggett–all of these things are disappearing for good. It really does actually really feel like the highest of an interval…
Hopefully he’ll get some good miles in.