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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Let's be fair here. NYC is still an insanely expensive place to live and shop. It's grossly overtaxed and overregulated. But Bloomberg has done a lot of ...
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To be fair to Bloomberg, NYC always was and always will be an expensive place to live and run. The maintenance on public infrastructure alone is a huge cost to be carried, let alone the expansion of it.
As for regulation...let's take the congestion pricing for traveling to lower manhattan. As somebody who has put up with that commute and traffic more than a few times, I'd say something has to be done. Bad traffic is another quality of life issue. More Path tubes, more ferries, more mass transit...but those things aren't going to pay for themselves, initially anyway. So, a punitive tax might not be a bad idea if it REALLY supports the solution , and again, makes NYC a better place to live in the long run.
Too bad the congestion pricing basically died on impact.
In my opinion of NY mayors, Bloomberg is pretty high up there.