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 XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: taragreen2@verizon.net 
  
 "Phil Kane"  wrote in message 
 news:o86uf29j1a4mo16r6l5lb358r9cnipm5db@4ax.com... 
 > On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:33:52 -0400, Bolwerk  wrote: 
 > 
 >>What we're talking about is limiting volume, capacity, and parking 
 >>spaces to increase traffic efficiency and/or open up space for street 
 >>life, not to raise revenue for the city. 
 > 
 > But all that limiting volume, capacity, and parking spaces will do 
 > would be to anger the driving VOTERS who would be justified in 
 > throwing the legislators out and putting in ones who are favorable to 
 > them. 
 > 
 > Otherwise they deserve ehat they get. 
  
 I would venture to guess that the vast majority of voters in NYC are *not* 
 drivers. Hell, I'd even venture to guess that the vast majority of private 
 vehicle drivers (at least in Manhattan) at any given point in the daytime 
 don't even *live* in NYC. 
  
 Tara 
  
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