Choose to believe whatever makes you happy. If you think what I write is all BS, you're free to not read it. Fortunately many policy makers would agree with most of the stuff I post.
Correlation doesn't equal causation. That's the major fallacy in your reasoning. In case you haven't followed this stuff, besides the additional vehicles I mentioned, post-pandemic the number of car registrations in NYC is up. More people are driving instead of taking the subway. You want the root cause of any additional congestion, look no further than your fellow drivers.
I find it very hard to believe, cuz i cross GWB almost every weekend twice from south brooklyn, it does not take more than an hour today. it takes me about 3 hours or less to get from sheepshead bay to Fallsburg. either direction,
That's projection on your part of what you think I am, not the reality. Complex subjects can't easily be discussed in 30 second sound bites but maybe try Yahoo comments if that's more your cup of tea.
To be sure it wasn't a normal occurrence, but it did happen every few trips. Keep in mind these were holidays in mid-afternoons, probably the worst time for traffic. Normal to get across the GWB those times was probably around an hour.
Where did I say you were wrong? Why do you think I support measures to reduce congestion, including congestion charges? Would I do that if there was no congestion? I walk. I ride my bike. I've lived in my neighborhood for 45 years. I can see with my own eyes how much worse traffic has gotten when I live. Weekdays I could ride my bike after 7 and the streets had light traffic. By 10 it was dead. Nowadays I see heavy traffic until at least 9 PM. Saturday was light to moderate traffic all day, and Sunday was completely dead. It was a pleasure to ride on weekends. Now Saturday is like a weekday. Sunday is nearly as bad, except maybe traffic dies off a little starting around 7 PM. There's a reason I like to ride after 10 PM now. It's the only time traffic is light enough for pleasurable riding.
No, I didn't have much desire to drive once I saw how much my parents spent on their cars. Cars are a money pit first and foremost. Even most car owners admit that much.
You're entitled to your opinion of me, however wrong it is.
There is that path as well, but then that's what gets humanity into most of its predicaments. Believing that's it's sunny out will never change a rainy night.
Fixed it for you, and would also like to point out that fortunately, many policy makers do not agree with your views. Hence the existence of disagreements like the ones in this thread.
Just like that, he makes a statement that any of us who can say what we need in short postings are third graders. I wish you could see the shades of grey you mention, but no, it's yourself who appears to see predominantly in black and white.
Well that's pretty much a third grade level of understanding, and self-centeredness thrown in for good measure. Nothing wrong with driving 55 then, or now, and sometimes it's a big help when people actually drive by road conditions.
It's called thorough discussion of an extremely complex topic. It just doesn't lend itself to brevity. Unfortunately, whenever this particular topic comes up a lot of the posts devolve to either stupid memes, or saying EVs/solar/wind/trains/public transit in general are evil incarnate because the left wants them. What's wrong with a discussion along the lines of EVs won't work for me now because (reasons). Do you engineers have any good solutions for that?
That's what most of these threads devolve to. ICEs and fossil fuels are great. No need to fix anything, ever.
Driving according to road conditions is something I would fully agree with. My desire back then would have been to be allowed to go much faster than 55 mph when road conditions allowed. Would I lane bomb at 90 mph on a crowded highway where everyone else was going 65 mph? Absolutely not. But if I was on an empty highway, gentle curves, good weather I might have wanted to go 100, 110, even 125+ mph. Why? It can cut hours off long trips. Since the US has no high-speed trains, highways with no speed limits are the next best thing. Going really fast also immerses you in the driving process so you don't fall asleep at the wheel.
Well, I'm only human. I get tired of hearing people bash technology engineers worked really hard to develop. Those same engineers also devoted decades to mastering their fields.
It does though, and your tendency to introduce more subject matter makes conversations into the equivalent of looking for a dropped item in a mud bottomed pond. Let the water calm, stay focused and stop swooshing your verbal arms around, because all it does is hide what we're supposed to be looking for. The whole "evil incarnate" line is a great example of created content that benefits no one, yourself included. Just makes you look bad, and finds us disagreeing over extraneous content, in essence, helping to ensure that many will miss your best material.
Actually you have, repeatedly, when making you judgemental proclamations about the stupidity of things which are actually simply two differing points of view, or something else entirely even. It isn't hard to see the disdain you hold for many whose points of view you tend to simply gloss over as their mental inferiority, and that makes you come across as pompous, but also reveals your inability to even try to understand how others think.
Fossil fuels are great and their demonization is as bad as anything else that has bothered you. Emotionally driven fits of 'throwing the baby out with the bath water' are predictably going to be met with emotional resistance. You write so much in many of your posts that you never take the time to look for anything ridiculous in the content, and most of my rebuttals to you tend to be focused on those.
Yes, and so are the rest of us. If you wish leeway for your views, you'd probably receive even more of it than you already do, simply by granting it to others rather than broadbrushing countering views in your habitually judgemental manner. Among people I often find my self opposing, you're one of the easiest ones to get along with, and you'd find less opposition to your posts if you could start with some self-editing.
A lot of us get tired of being bashed for having counter-views, and college degrees have never, ever, ever equated to common sensibility. They're nothing more than certificates of effort and time, and the onus is on those in possession of them to stop seeing their paper certificates as indicators of superiority.
Actually no, I'm done wasting my time with you. Honestly, THAT was your intelligent rebuttal? Seriously?? You expect me to list my best friend's full-name and Ohio address on a public forum?
