Congestion Pricing: Act Now?

Here is a pro-congestion pricing ad. It makes congestion pricing too beneficial, no one will take it seriously. Cleaner air? Additional Subway lines? Less Traffic? Yeah Ok...

My favorite part was the " What if every penny went to improving mass transit." We will never know cause it wouldn't happen. Damn Utopians!

Go here to help the movement. Better Transit

Station Road Civic Association Meeting

The Station Road Civic Association of Auburndale, Queens

Please join us for our March meeting on Wednesday, March 5th at 7:30 PM. We have a great deal to cover so we will begin promptly at 7:30 PM. This will leave time for everyone to enjoy refreshments and socialize after the business portion of the meeting.

Meeting Location:

Lutheran Church of the Messiah 42-15 165th Street (Corner of 165th and Northern Boulevard). Parking is available in the church lot.

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If you have a blog and you are looking for some exposure to large audiences? This is probably the place for you. It nearly tripled by average amount of hits since I have joined.

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Everyone enjoy your Sunny Sunday and watch all that snow melt (provided you live in or around the Flushing Queens area).

Senator Frank Padavan Passes Lawn Litter Law?

I'm not really sure what the law is and what it restricts but here is what the article says:
I know I get a lot of lawn litter on and around my property in Flushing as I live next to a large Public School and the Mr. Softee likes to frequent the area. I hope this legislation does something, but chances are it won't. This sounds like the work of community board 11, if I had to guess.

In order to help homeowners throughout Queens ward off the nuisance of unwanted literature, fliers and advertisements I am offering a free official "Lawn Litter Sign" to place on their property.

You can pick-up your own "Lawn Litter Sign" at my district offices in Bellerose or Whitestone. My Bellerose office is located at 89-39 Gettysburg Street and is opened Monday thru Friday 9am-5pm. My Whitestone office is located at 15-26 14th Avenue and is open from 9am-1pm.

Sincerely,
Senator Frank Padavan

BaysideQueens

If you have any additional information on exactly what is going on feel free to email me at welightupqueens@gmail.com

NYPIRG: Expand Recycle Bottle Bill Refund

Students from the New York Public Interest Research Group chapters at Queens College and Queensborough Community College are urging lawmakers to update New York’s Bottle Bill.

Students Urge Lawmakers to Expand Bottle Bill

NYPIRG usually has strong points and make their concerns heard. This suggestion is great because most of the waste you find on todays streets are water bottles, while most cans and glass bottles are recycled. The more benefit people get from recycling the more likely they are to do it. The 5 cents is almost irrelevant I think if they up it to 10 cents we will see much cleaner streets and parks in Queens.


Update: Survey of Beverage Containers

City Shuting Down Star Nissan?

Well my last post suggesting that something should be done about the various parking issues in Queens.

City should shut down Star Nissan: CB 11

Community Board 11 is trying to get Star Nissan ( who does major amounts of sales, evident because of their bumper sticker) shut down because of their lot can not hold that amount of cars the dealership maintains, leaving many cars on surrounding side streets which end up in " No Parking" zones and blocking fire hydrants. The lot has a Certificate of Occupancy for 30 cars but their total nears 70.

The residents around the Clearview Expressway probably could use the parking relief, I know I have had my difficulties parking in that area before.

One step for Bayside in the right direction, one step for Queens!

Congestion Pricing = LOL?

I found this over at StreetsBlog.org, it has a contest going for who can make up the best punchline for or against congestion pricing.

One poster wrote:

"Don't Support More Money for Mass Transit! Gas prices are going to drop any day now."

I would write something like:

"When it takes you 5 hours to drive in to work and 10 minutes to drive to the Train Station, you will be taking mass transit anyway."

or

"Congestion Pricing: Funding a noisy bus route down a street near you!"

or

"Congestion Pricing: Puting a price cap on that MetroCard"