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Driving in Manhattan is for truck deliveries and taxis only.
If you try to drive a car from point to point in Manhattan, you’re an asshole.
That goes for every densely populated city. In Europe we have similar problems and still there are those SUV Assholes driving their cars in areas even delivery vehicles fear to enter. (Imagine Roads made for horse carriages… they are now one way and barely fit those dick extensions)
25 years ago, I felt safer riding a bicycle in Manhattan than I did in Boston…
I looked on the map. That overlooks Central Park.
If your home overlooks Central Park, I’m pretty sure you can afford a congestion charge.
You don’t get rich enough to afford such a location by paying fees that benefit others.
The congestion zone starts at 60th Street and heads south, so traveling from 61st - 79th street won’t even encounter the congestion pricing. This guy is dumb on so many levels.
EDIT: I just looked it up on a map and 61st is a one way going west towards Central Park, so if you enter 61st from Madison Ave, you’re forced to exit at 5th Ave and go south entering the zone, which I guess is this guy’s problem?. I also looked up the guy and he’s a CEO Real Estate developer, so he’s living in a multi-million dollar place right next to Central Park and can’t afford to pay $9 because his private parking spot in his building forces him to drive into the congestion pricing zone. Come on!
Another case of the big bad gubberment hurting the little guy!
Isn’t the point of the congestion fee to relieve congestion? Each person that says “this fee is stupid & I’m not paying” is one less vehicle in the area.
Sounds like a win.
I was wondering if there was more to the story. Like, maybe he has a disability and NYC doesn’t have an exemption for disabilities. They do, however, have an exemption for disabilities as well as a reduced rate for low income residents. To me it sounds like this guy is just lazy.
Looking at this on Google Maps, he can get anywhere on 76th St using one bus or subway ride and a 5-10 minute walk.
Zero sympathy.
Imagine if we got this sort of coverage whenever someone was inconvenienced by public transit being cut, or a bike lane being blocked, or fares being raised.
But that doesn’t manufacture consent for the corporate dictatorship?
Also, where the fuck is he finding a place to park on E 79th St. anyway?
See, this is another thing that this congestion pricing will help alleviate: driving around several blocks for an hour, looking for a spot, wasting fuel and polluting.
There should be congestion parking charges, too
There are, they’re called parking meters.
No, better to just remove all the street parking spots.
They can do it slowly. One per day.
That would take about 8,220 years. There are approximately 3 million on-street parking spaces in NYC.
I would be happy with a faster transition. Maybe one space per street per day?
Maybe one entire block per day. Why go slowly?
And do it during the day, without notice, and tow the cars now illegally parked.
Does NYC have minimum parking spaces in new buildings? I know other cities do, to the detriment of mass transit.
It’s hard to believe this is real. Who would try a car for a trip like that? It would be so inconvenient
You underestimate how car-brained Americans are. If a destination is more than a few blocks away, most people will hop in their car without a second thought.
More than a few blocks? I’ve seen people who need to take the car a quarter of a mile and even less than that. Granted, I’m talking about rural Americans where they’re used to living on rural highways applying the same logic to the small towns that support their homes, but you get the idea
They may take our lives, but they will never take our DRIVING 18 BLOCKS TO SEE OUR CHILDREN
The one time I was in NYC, I was flabbergasted by the traffic because it was literally the opposite of what I expected from hearing about it and having seen jokes about it for literally my entire life.
There was basically no cars on the road, but so many people on the sidewalk it was hard to walk anywhere unless you walked in the street. Also everytime I hailed a cab to go somewhere thinking it was pretty far, they would be like “Bruh! You don’t need to pay me for that, it’s literally just down the street!” So I ended up walking all over the city and never taking any kind of vehicle.
Can somebody share a better measurement than “18 blocks” for the rest of the world?
18 blocks in NYC is approximately 1.5 km to the rest of the world.
That is literally 15 minutes lol. But hes a ceo so thats why a 15 minute walk is so hard for him.
5’ or less by bike
after reading that he lives on a one way that takes him farther away before he can take a turn to go towards his kids, he probably drives for longer than 15 minutes 🤦
A block can vary, but in a city like NY a safe estimate is 0.1 mile per block. So 18 blocks is something like 1.8 miles or 2-3 km.
It’s you-shoud-probaby-walk-this-distance-for-your-health walking distance.
A “block” is not a fixed measurement, it is the distance between cross streets in a grid. They have blocks in Europe and people definitely understand the concept in my experience.
I understand the concept of a block (even if they don’t really exist in my city), but that doesn’t really give me an idea of the actual distance, so it’s a pretty useless information to me. Using proper standard metrics makes much more sense.
Its also significantly worse for Manhattan because depending on if you turn 90 degrees its like 4.5 times the distance.
Property shark CEO inconvencied. Sad trombone.
It bugs me when screenshots are posted by themselves.
Here’s 10 min of work getting all sources in the screenshot.
Reddit - r/NewYorkCity
X - ScooterCasterNY
Youtube - FredomNews.TVIn the video clip, the guy explains he’s not paying to go 18 blocks. He’s paying because the one-way streets force him to go south one block, charging the $9, before he can go anywhere north. That is understandably annoying.
It is annoying and expensive, but owning and regularly using a car in the densest part of the densest city in the country should be annoying and expensive. If he likes driving so much he should move somewhere else or pay the cost of his driving to the city, and considering he lives on the upper east side he can probably afford it.
I don’t really disagree.
I can just see how it’s annoying for him, because the roads force him to drive one block in the wrong direction, and then charge him for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he made that $9 back in the time it took him to drive around the block. But it would still be annoying.Which is ironic because the one way streets were created due to car traffic lmao
What’s even more annoying is his house is on Central Park… which means the fee is a nothing burger to him.
He just doesn’t wanna pay to Improve the MTA.
Yes but he’s a multimillionaire so that makes his complaint irrelevant.
There are some issues with the way they’ve implemented congestion pricing, in my infrequently-visits-NYC mind, but this complaint is outside of them.
He gets charged every time he moves his car?
- Yes cars cost money to maintain.
- Is there a camera pointed at his car or something? Ready to swipe his credit card as soon as anything happens to the car?
No, the toll gets charged only once per day.
2 is actually true in this scenario
What? How?
The only exit from his parking structure is a street equipped with a system that automatically charges a toll.
Skill issue (on the car’s account)
