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This morning, many of you got to see (and seethe about) NASCAR's Victory Lap in Midtown this morning. The thing is, the Department of Transportation has always considered November 29 to be a Gridlock Alert Day. Which means traffic was totally screwed up on one of the busiest days of the year. Good work, to the lucky dog who planned that one!
Now the question is, how would congestion pricing work for a NASCAR stunt?
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try nascar publicity stunt + usual Crazy Crowds at midtown + Tree Lighting ceremony = the Seventh Circle of HELL!!!!!! Holy shit! I couldn't even move 2 inches through a barricade at fifth avenue. I thought I was going to have to live there and bear children and put them through college for the rest of my life. I've been to fifth avenue countless times and know it's bad but today was the paragon of bad ideas.
If this were bicyclists, you know you'd be reading about lots of 'civil disobedience' and arrests left and right. But for a CAR to cause apocalyptic gridlock? Yeah, that's fine and dandy by Bloomberg and the dept of transportation.
that hick stuff doesn't belong in NYC.