Submitted by Scott Baker, May 7, 2007 12:23

First of all, the Mayor clearly said mass transit has to be improved for the outer buroughs. Unlike Albany, he actually came up with a way to pay for it. Second, we cannot continue to load single-occupant cars onto New York City streets - in some areas it is actually faster to walk during the weekdays. I live near the Midtown tunnel and I know Second Avenue is a honking, snarled, angry mess every afternoon as desperate drivers try to squeeze their way out of the city through a tunnel that was designed half a century ago to hold a fraction of today's traffic. Third, there is the Greenhouse issue to consider, plus good old-fashioned pollution form all those tailpipes. Fourth, what kind of city do we want in 2030, when the Mayor's PlaNYC is supposed to go into effect? If we expect to have a million more city-dwellers, the vast majority cannot be driving to work every day. If anything, the Mayor's plan does not go far enough, soon enough. But, since the pursestrings are still largely controlled by a distant capital that neither understands New York City, nor particularly cares, we may not even get this vision of how things ought to be.

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