Re: Rye-Oyster Bay Br--sister Bridge?

On Mar 8, 11:57 am, "Pete from Boston" <massp...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 7, 1:31 pm, "Rothman" <dnro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 7, 1:07 pm, hanco...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Mar 7, 8:08 am, "Rothman" <dnro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

NYC hasn't adequately planned for drivers.

NYC wasn't built for drivers. They learned over a hundred years ago
that the city streets simply couldn't accomodate all the traffic and
it was a nightmare. So they built subways.

It should have been built for drivers.

There weren't drivers when the die was cast.

Lack of foresight on their part.

Wouldn't be able to find
parking driving to everywhere I needed to go.

Parking is the responsibility of the property owner of the place you
are visiting. My employer provides us parking--built a garage at very
significant expense. The business or residence you were visiting
should've built a garage or had enough land for parking spaces. Why
didn't they?

Because planners didn't allow them to or planners didn't provide the
environment within which to have parking come into being.

This sounds like people in middle age who say, "My wrongdoing is the
fault of a system did not provide an environment in which I could
flourish in my teenage years. Blame them."

I've learned from my parents quite well.

Instead, I have to be
inconvenienced by having to take transit and waiting for them to show
up, rather than just being able to drive my car into a parking spot.

I find it more of an inconvenience to sit in traffic jams. The wear
and tear of such traffic is rough on my car as well as on me. The
time is totally wasted. I can't sit back and read the paper or do
work or take a nap. I have to focus on the two taillights in front of
me as well as those on the left side and right side (in case they cut
in front of me). Stop and go. Stop and go. Stop and go.

Then go around the traffic jam.

Society's problems, in other words, can be blamed on a majority that
isn't smart enough to realize the solutions. "People should know in
advance where the traffic is, and know the best ways around it."
Brilliant. This recalls the Massachusetts logic of, "If you needed a
sign, you clearly didn't plan ahead sufficiently."

That's what prescriptive travel information and ATISes are for.
Massachusetts does need better signage, no doubt about that.
MassHighway makes everyone else look good.

At least on a train the time is mine. I can get up and move around if
I want. On some trains there are restrooms, some have food service.

Eh, waiting for a train stinks.

Waiting for anything stinks.

At least I'm behind the wheel in a jam. I'm subject to a nameless
entity when I'm on transit. It's sort of like waiting in the airport
and the airline doesn't give you enough information to let you know
what's going on (however, I did have a recent good experience with
Continental a couple of weeks ago -- a first!).

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