Letter to Queens Gazette:If those cry babies in Manhattan want to experience real traffic, they should visit the borough of Queens. I invite them to drive the streets of Bay Terrace on a Sunday afternoon when Fort Totten is in full swing or College Point at any time. Let's not forget Main Street in Flushing, Downtown Jamaica, Astoria, the Rockaway Peninsula, Long Island City, our airports or Queens Boulevard, our very own Boulevard of Death. There are just too many streets to list them all, but any one of those roadways could be used to define "congestion." By comparison, Midtown Manhattan is an open highway.
Think about it: no more free rides for vehicles going past 23rd Avenue, Astoria Boulevard, Roosevelt Avenue or Jamaica Avenue. Only residents living in close proximity to a congested intersection would be exempted. Why should we care if that makes some of us into second-class citizens? In a democracy that's the price we pay for improved traffic flow. It's time to let Mayor Bloomberg know that Queens needs Congestion Pricing now. When that's finished, he can work on making the railroads run on time.
Warren Schreiber
Bayside
Photo from northeastroads.com
4 comments:
The photo shows "the dreaded Van Wyck"...there was a Seinfeld episode about this congested highway.
Hey you Manhattan imbeciles....you wanted to live in those "glittering towers" on an island unto yourselves so....duh...you get congestion and pollution at no extra charge!
Don't forget to tip your doorman. They can be nasty!
queens needs more transit and to be slightly more dense. Its very spread out with transportation really only helping out the northern end. If Manhattan had queens transit, it would not be sustainable. queens was mostly a mass planned community development when it was mostly farms. They just forgot to plan more transit...
The city and state wanted to construct a new subway extension to LaGuardia but moron Queens NIMBYs fought against it and so now you're stuck in traffic.
Don't complain now, Queens is getting what it deserved and wanted: automobile traffic.
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