XPost: nyc.announce, nyc.general, nyc.politics 
 XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: bolwerk@gmail.com 
  
 Phil Kane wrote: 
 > 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. 
  
 We're talking about NYC here, where the voters aren't the drivers, for 
 the most part. And, again, the idea isn't just to limit capacity for the 
 sake of limiting capacity and punishing people. It's to actually plan 
 traffic patterns in a practical matter, rather than the current 
 prevailing system of having everyone crowd to a thoroughfare like a herd 
 of Buffalo looking for water. 
  
 In the end (I know, it's counterintuitive), the supply/demand 
 equilibrium is better, and more space is available when somebody is 
 actually in the car. This may please some voters (admittedly, as slim 
 keeps saying, these might often be the wealthier ones). But those who 
 NEED to drive will actually be able to MOVE. And there are always public 
 transportation alternatives for many of those who don't have to drive 
 anyway. 
  
 > Otherwise they deserve ehat they get. 
  
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