XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: metroboyeh5@yahoo.com 
  
 On 6 Apr 2004 14:02:17 -0400, steveo@panix.com (Steven M. O'Neill) 
 tickled my privates with this: 
  
 >From the NY Post: 
 > 
 >    It may not seem like it from the rush-hour gridlock - but 
 >    New Yorkers are losing their love affair with the car. 
 > 
 >    As the industry gears up for this week's international auto 
 >    show in Manhattan, the number of vehicles owned by city 
 >    dwellers has dropped for three years in a row. 
  
 While the rest of you go at each other, I thought I'd interject; 
  
 The reason the number of vehicles owned by city dwellers has dropped 
 for three years now is that in the past three years or so, city 
 dwellers in ever increasing numbers have been registering their cars 
 out of state (from what I see daily in traffic around me, mostly in 
 the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Illinois and 
 Washington DC, in the order of frequency that I see it).  Technically, 
 they're not owned by city dwellers; they're just being registered out 
 of state (I assume to "get over" on registration fees and the cost of 
 insurance in the city.) 
  
 And when pretty much every car I see on the BQE is bearing 
 Pennsylvania OR Virginia license plates, please don't tell me they're 
 commuting here from Philadelphia and Arlington. 
  
 I thought this was illegal, anyway? 
  
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