XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: grammatim@worldnet.att.net 
  
 John Mann wrote: 
 > 
 > 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.) 
  
 Registration fees are a lot lower in NYC and NYS than in Chicago, and 
 the insurance is about the same. 
  
 > 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? 
  
 A car must be registered in the state of "primary residence," described 
 as where one lives for half the year or more. 
 -- 
 Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net 
  
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