Count On NYC To Go Car-Free....

Frank F. Matthews wrote:
While there may be a bunch of folks on Manhattan who don't have cars I
doubt that the 1/2% will apply to the entire city. I had a friend who
went to graduate school on Manhattan and one of his real joys was that
his dorm room came with a parking space. He said that he felt like one
of the elite.

Exactly. Of the dozens of people I knew in college who grew up in NYC, only
a handful even knew how to drive. These days most of them have learned it,
due to stints working elsewhere, but again I can think of only two among
dozens of friends living in the city now who have cars. And one of those has
it for work (newspaper photographer, which is a pretty decent excuse).

Even here in DC the vast majority of my friends who live in the city proper
do not have cars, and a few never learned to drive.

miguel
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:14:19 -0400, 127.0.0.1 wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:39:09 -0500, TCS
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:31:26 -0400, Shawn Hearn wrote:
In article ,
"Steve Austin" wrote:

Count on New York City to go car-free within the next two decades.

Sure, and what next, pigs flying? NYC will go carless only when buying
and maintaining a car is so expensive that it is beyond the reach of
most New Yorkers and those who visit or commute to New York City.

NYC is already mostly car-less. I doubt even 1/2% of those who live in the
city drive one on a daily basis. With the cost of garaging a car, paying the
taxes, and the fact that it won't get you anywhere faster than the subway, it
makes little sense to have one.

It doesn't make any sense to keep a car for vacations either. For a small
fraction of the cost of car ownership and storage, you can rent a car.

If you bother to notice the cars on the roads of NYC, you'll note that most
are public transportation (buses, taxi's) or playthings of the very rich.
pure nonsense


You'd know it as the truth if you'd ever visited the city or lived there.

Steve Austin wrote:

Count on New York City to go car-free within the next two decades.

Count on the asshole Steve Austin to post another message within the next
two weeks about some place going car free.

127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 wrote:
TCS wrote:
You'd know it as the truth if you'd ever visited the city or lived there.

then why do the city housing projects have parking lots for the
tenants?

What city housing project has a parking lot for tenants (other than a couple
spots out front for deliveries and handicapped drivers)?

miguel
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:57:56 GMT, Miguel Cruz wrote:
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 wrote:
TCS wrote:
You'd know it as the truth if you'd ever visited the city or lived there.

then why do the city housing projects have parking lots for the
tenants?

What city housing project has a parking lot for tenants (other than a couple
spots out front for deliveries and handicapped drivers)?

127 was probably refering to places out in the bronx.

I was refering to manhatten.

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:20:06 -0400, 127.0.0.1 wrote:

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:54:47 -0500, TCS
wrote:



You'd know it as the truth if you'd ever visited the city or lived there.
then why do the city housing projects have parking lots for the
tenants?

Let me guess. For their cars?

Here's another. why are the lots filled all day, every day?

Subject: Count On NYC To Go Car-Free....
From: Michael Gallagher
Date: 4/15/04 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:23:31 GMT, "alohacyberian"
wrote:

I gotta big picture of the taxi drivers going along with that one! ;-)
There's be an armed insurrection! KM

"Car free" usually means no private cars; cabs, I think, are ok.

Seems like half the cars in NYC already are cabs.





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"Frank F. Matthews" wrote in message ...
If your definition of being 'car free' is not using a car on a daily
basis then much of the world has always been car free. Even here in
Texas the home of the free ranging auto there are occasional days when I
don't happen to drive.

While there may be a bunch of folks on Manhattan who don't have cars I
doubt that the 1/2% will apply to the entire city. I had a friend who
went to graduate school on Manhattan and one of his real joys was that
his dorm room came with a parking space. He said that he felt like one
of the elite.
FFM

TCS wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:31:26 -0400, Shawn Hearn wrote:

In article ,
"Steve Austin" wrote:

Count on New York City to go car-free within the next two decades.

Sure, and what next, pigs flying? NYC will go carless only when buying
and maintaining a car is so expensive that it is beyond the reach of
most New Yorkers and those who visit or commute to New York City.


NYC is already mostly car-less. I doubt even 1/2% of those who live in the
city drive one on a daily basis. With the cost of garaging a car, paying the
taxes, and the fact that it won't get you anywhere faster than the subway, it
makes little sense to have one.

It doesn't make any sense to keep a car for vacations either. For a small
fraction of the cost of car ownership and storage, you can rent a car.

If you bother to notice the cars on the roads of NYC, you'll note that most
are public transportation (buses, taxi's) or playthings of the very rich.

Nope. No cars at all. That's the future, including in NYC.

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 07:24:02 -0400, 127.0.0.1 wrote:
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:57:56 GMT, Miguel Cruz wrote:

127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 wrote:
TCS wrote:
You'd know it as the truth if you'd ever visited the city or lived there.

then why do the city housing projects have parking lots for the
tenants?

What city housing project has a parking lot for tenants (other than a couple
spots out front for deliveries and handicapped drivers)?

most of them

Not in manhatten.

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 07:24:16 -0400, 127.0.0.1 wrote:
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:38:22 -0500, TCS
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:57:56 GMT, Miguel Cruz wrote:
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 wrote:
TCS wrote:
You'd know it as the truth if you'd ever visited the city or lived there.

then why do the city housing projects have parking lots for the
tenants?

What city housing project has a parking lot for tenants (other than a couple
spots out front for deliveries and handicapped drivers)?

127 was probably refering to places out in the bronx.

I was refering to manhatten.
so was I

I was refering to the manhatten that's on planet earth.

Have you even visited the place once? The only way to believe that most
places have parking for their tennets is to be high on crack.