Properly, Streetsblog has lastly given up on congestion pricing:
The explanation? Apparently no one desires it:
That is complicated, as a result of till lately Streetblog was saying everyone desires it:
Not like every of this issues anyway. They’ll simply determine a brand new tax, and in contrast to congestion pricing it’ll most likely be one you possibly can’t select to keep away from:
Although in accordance with the governor there’d be no avoiding congestion pricing both since it might trigger the price of pizza slices to go up:
So I assume you would say whether or not you drive or not the price of congestion pricing can be…baked into all the things 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 is nonetheless whining about it:
I don’t know why immediately 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’d absolutely 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 speculated to have generated $1 billion yearly, Citi Bike sees one thing like 30 million journeys per yr as of 2022, and as of the top of 2023 one thing like 46% of these journeys had been on e-bikes. So if we tacked a compulsory MTA surcharge onto every electrified Citi Bike journey, it might 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 motorbike 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’ll turn into a significant vacation spot for mountain bike fanatics, no matter their talent degree, in addition to followers of strolling and jogging. The hill can even turn 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 an alternative 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 closing lap:
I used to giggle on the previous “no slip system,” however the Brits had been just some stitches away from a gold medal:
[From here.]
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 top of an period…
Hopefully he will get some good miles in.
