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   Ruben Safir to Steven M. O'Neill   
   Re: The MTA Monopoly - closing the looph   
   31 Aug 22 15:57:37   
   
   From: mrbrklyn@panix.com   
      
   Steven M. O'Neill  wrote:   
   > nikolay kazakov   wrote:   
   >>On Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 9:30:25 AM UTC-4, Steven M. O'Neill wrote:   
   >>> Ruben Safir  wrote:   
   >>> >Also, from Brooklyn, it is impossible to get anywhere without   
   >>> >either going through Manhattan or an MTA bridge.   
   >>> "Drivers on the FDR Drive, West Side Highway and the sections of   
   >>> the Battery Park Underpass and Hugh Carey Tunnel that connect   
   >>> the two will not be subject to tolls, unless exiting into the CBD."   
   >   
   >>Like when you have to pick up your daughter with all her bags when she   
   >>comes home from College at Penn Station... for example.   
   >>   
   >>According to YOU she should take a bus with 3 duffle bags to Kew Gardens.   
   >>You are really insensitive to anyone's needs other than your own, and from   
   >>your posting here, it seems you have very little needs and you have a very   
   >>small life.   
   >   
   > If someone has too much luggage to manage on their own,   
      
   Or groceries, or fishing equiptment, or furniture, or children from the   
   class, or birthday cakes, or the dog, or passover Matzahs.... or need to take   
   it   
   anywhere more than to the bus stop because most of my life does not take   
   place at the bus stop.   
      
   face it, the bus is all but useless for real life.   
      
   > it seems   
   > like a cab or an app car would be a better bet than a bus. I   
   > certainly wouldn't buy a car just to make one pickup a year at   
   > Penn Station.   
   >   
   > But my point above was that you'll be able go through Manhattan   
   > to reach destinations outside of Manhattan without paying the   
   > congestion charge, if you stay on the perimeter roads.   
   >   
      
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