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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Isn't That What Middle Class Motorists Are For?

MAY 16, 2007 --  

Mayor Bloomberg shouldn't squeeze Manhattan-bound drivers more, financially. That's what LPR heard the WABC morning co-host (with Curtis Sliwa) and criminal law defense attorney Ron Kuby say, of the mayor's plan to charge drivers a Manhattan entrance fee.

What's another financial squeeze on motorists -- beset by the mayor's PVB horde, gas price spikes and all the traffic obstacles the human brain can think up.

An early morning Manhattan obstacle, witnessed by LPR is the sanitation truck making its rounds -- with apparent license to stop in the middle of the roadway.


A New York City sidestreet in the AM Rush …



Weekends, portions of Manhattan's major north-south thoroughfares are taken up by street fairs, and also by Marches for Good Causes -- a march up Broadway, May 5, created the traffic tie-up (shown in an accompanying photo) on Columbus Avenue, at Lincoln Center.

Columbus Avenue Jam …

Sundays, yes, the parking meters are given the day off. LPR has noticed, though, that they are being phased out by the parking chad dispensers.

On Amsterdam Avenue, for example, two quarters in the chad dispenser gets the driver 15 minutes parking time.

With the meters, each quarter brought ten
minutes' parking time. There City Hall goes again -- nickel and dime-ing people lucky to find a legal spot.

Borrowing an Imusism the squeeze on the middle class "conTINNyews."


A Broadway Sunday …


A Broadway Sunday, photo 2 …


New York City sidestreet gridlock …