Effectively, Streetsblog has lastly given up on congestion pricing:
The explanation? Apparently no person desires it:
That is complicated, as a result of till just lately Streetblog was saying everyone desires it:
Not like all of this issues anyway. They’ll simply work out a brand new tax, and in contrast to congestion pricing it’ll most likely be one you may’t select to keep away from:
Although in accordance with the governor there’d be no avoiding congestion pricing both since it will trigger the price of pizza slices to go up:
So I suppose you can say whether or not you drive or not the price of congestion pricing could be…baked into every little thing you purchase.
However congestion pricing or no congestion pricing, issues in New York Metropolis are costly–together with e-bike journeys, and this David Zipper man remains to be whining about it:
I don’t know why instantly folks really feel like a visit on a bicycle with a motor ought to value the identical as a subway or bus journey, although I might totally help making all common Citi Bike journeys free and rising the price of the e-bike journeys much more to make up for it. Or, higher but, since a lot of e-Citi Bike journeys would most likely have been bus or subway journeys, why not make up for the lack of congestion pricing with a tax on these journeys? Congestion pricing was purported to have generated $1 billion yearly, Citi Bike sees one thing like 30 million journeys per yr as of 2022, and as of the tip of 2023 one thing like 46% of these journeys have been on e-bikes. So if we tacked a compulsory MTA surcharge onto every electrified Citi Bike journey, it will solely value the e-Citi Bike consumer…
…$72.46 per journey to offset the congestion pricing pause.
Appears doable to me.
In the meantime, Paris has put in one thing like a billion miles of motorcycle lanes for the Olympics:
And has even legalized “salmoning,” my one enduring contribution to the English language:
Plus they even get to maintain their mountain biking venue:
The Video games will additional strengthen Elancourt Hill’s leisure dimension. Open to everybody, it should change into a significant vacation spot for mountain bike lovers, no matter their talent degree, in addition to followers of strolling and jogging. The hill may even change into an space for household walks in a protected, pollution-free surroundings surrounded by regenerated nature.
All whereas banning shared scooters:
A lot to the dismay of this lunatic:
Scooters are extra enjoyable than bikes? That’s simply deranged.
As for New York, we stay a half-assed bike metropolis at finest, and as a substitute of banning shared scooters we simply stick ’em within the Bronx:
It is because folks love throwing e-scooters into rivers, and the Bronx is the one borough in all of New York Metropolis with an precise recent water river.
Talking of the Olympics, the YouTubes gained’t let me embed the video, however Australia beat the UK within the crew pursuit when a rider slipped off his saddle within the remaining lap:
I used to chuckle on the outdated “no slip system,” however the Brits have been just some stitches away from a gold medal:
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However the largest information from the Olympics is the retirement of Phil Liggett:
Mechanical drivetrains, rim brakes, biking caps, Phil Liggett–all of these items are disappearing for good. It actually does really feel like the tip of an period…
Hopefully he will get some good miles in.
