blacktongue t1_j2dn6qd wrote
Reply to comment by tsgram in PSA: For those of you who operate non-electric vehicles, note that the NYS sales tax holiday on motor fuels is expiring tomorrow, so fill up before January 1 and save about 40c/gal. by HiFiGuy197
Yeah but what are we going to do, line all the streets with charging blocks? I wish we’d just invest that money in better public transit.
tsgram t1_j2dqpas wrote
I’d take both.
blacktongue t1_j2dsnkz wrote
Every single thing we can do to disincentivize loud, expensive, dangerous space-consuming cars having priority to the streets would be a net benefit to the city. We’ll always need some, but we could definitely stand to have way fewer if the city would just proportionally invest in public transit to compensate.
tsgram t1_j2dzxst wrote
100%! Long story short I drive to work because it saves literally over an hour roundtrip. I would LOVE to have efficient and reliable public transit instead. I’d have to take a subway to a bus, and that bus goes extremely slowly because people park in the bus lane and all through Church Ave 18-wheelers double park to unload.
opheliainwaders t1_j2eqypa wrote
Interestingly, we already have existing infrastructure that could be repurposed/added onto for charging: streetlights! It would require an investment, obviously, but we already have a set of grid-connected blocks lining our streets. (I’m with you on public transit, but I’m ok with both/and in this case, and would like a—politically infeasible, I realize—dramatic reworking of the city budget to prioritize transit, schools, green infra…)
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