Mayor Bloomberg unveiled his master plan for the future of NY on Earth Day. It’s a gigantic plan that cover every aspect of a New Yorker’s life. It’s a great plan that I totally supported but getting all of it implement would be a difficult task! Estimated that 40% of the plan require state approval or cooperation from non-city agency – which mean they are out of the hands of Bloomberg. And the centerpiece of the plan is congestion pricing – which seems already stir up opposition from the outer boroughs (what do they not oppose of anyway!), even if the federal gov’t actually endorse congestion pricing and it’s prove to be working in London and other cities, it’s hard to get it through the heads of people who resist paying for anything. But seriously people! stuck in traffic jam is already a kind of payment already! horrible air condition is another kind of payment~ If you are willing to pay, it’s not like you don’t get anything back, you do get benefit, there will be less traffic, faster and may even be more parking spaces!

Anyone who take Subways should support the plan because it will become the solution to the biggest obstacle of maintaining and expanding mass transit – funding! The NYC subways hasn’t been really expanded since before World War II!! not to mention they are having troubling maintaining the current condition. Even though there’s a groundbreaking for the second ave subway a few weeks ago (for the third time in 100 years), there’s no guarantee that it will actually get done this time around (there is still a budget gap need to be filled) Bloomberg’s plan of using the revenue generated from the congestion pricing with additional matching contribution from the city and the state to create a new financing agency for mass transit will solve the problem for years to come. We all complained about the sorry state of our subway system~ this seems like the most possible chance for any kind of improvement for the system.
I seriously hope that most parts of the plan will become a reality!

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