Yang Gang Back? Update: Yang loses NYC Mayoral Race; Adams wins over Garcia!

nyknick

nyknick

refuel w/ chocolate milk
Joined
Jul 7, 2012
Messages
18,714
Reputation
6,060
Daps
90,745
88m3 said:
Not at the expense of actual NYers

suburbanites are already highly subsidized, stop playing dumb, do not reinforce white supremacy
Click to expand...
For actual New Yorkers he's looking to reduce public transportation :unimpressed:


Mayor: Andrew Yang is Wrong about Flushing Busway, But Candidate Doubles Down
Yang had made headlines at a mayoral forum in Flushing on Monday when he said the city should be open to “re-examining” the car-free route, which runs between Northern Boulevard and Sanford Avenue.


On Tuesday, Yang, whose own website touts the success of 14th Street as a model example of the type of public transit he’d like to build throughout the city, reiterated that he does in fact support busways — just not necessarily that busway.

“I generally support busways throughout the city. The Flushing Main street busway I have heard numerous community complaints,” said Yang during an unrelated campaign event in Brooklyn. “What I said was, look if this is a relatively recent change and there are some effects … then we should be open to pluses and minuses on the change and I think that openness is appropriate, but generally speaking I’m very pro busways. I think they are very positive.”

But Yang admitted that his opinion of the busway — which only started rolling on Jan. 19 after months of delays, including a lawsuit that momentarily stopped it in its tracks — was guided only by speaking to business owners and private car owners, who lamented their perceived inability to drop off their relatives at the curb for doctor’s appointments, not any of the actual 150,000 daily commuters who ride one of the 11 buses that traverse Main Street.
Click to expand...
 
88m3

88m3

Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Joined
May 21, 2012
Messages
88,904
Reputation
3,727
Daps
158,254
Reppin
Brooklyn
was running errands earlier today and I saw someone with Yang bumper stickers

:mjlol:
 
G

GunRanger

Veteran
Joined
May 17, 2014
Messages
30,981
Reputation
4,614
Daps
102,484
nyknick said:


:gucci:
Click to expand...

He's right. Office spaces are decimated and thousands of unions cleaners are out of work because of work from home, and that wont change without some incentivento come back.

Thats not even counting the revenue lost from restaurants, parking, tolls, etc.
 
morris

morris

Superstar
Joined
Oct 8, 2014
Messages
16,590
Reputation
4,965
Daps
36,404
What happened to him. During his BKClub interview, he had a lot of progressive ideas.

And is Jin even living in NYC?
 
nyknick

nyknick

refuel w/ chocolate milk
Joined
Jul 7, 2012
Messages
18,714
Reputation
6,060
Daps
90,745
GunRanger said:
He's right. Office spaces are decimated and thousands of unions cleaners are out of work because of work from home, and that wont change without some incentivento come back.

Thats not even counting the revenue lost from restaurants, parking, tolls, etc.
Click to expand...
I understand wanting people back in the city but his plan is very inefficient, it's giving companies tax breaks to get people back in the offices.

Just as congestion pricing is being implemented under the guise of alleviating rush hour traffic and raising money, Yang wants to spend money to get people back in there. Does it make sense for New Yorkers to subsidize people from Westchester and Long Island just because they'll buy a sandwich? If you want to get more actual NYC residents to commute into Manhattan there are a lot better ways to do it than giving JP Morgan tax breaks :hubie:

And people that live in outer boroughs and WFH will extra two hours they don't have spend in traffic to go to their local bar/restaurant :manny:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top