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Quip about climate change8/7/2023 ![]() The top priorities would instead be providing quality service with environmentally friendly vehicles and sustaining solid middle-class jobs for bus operators and mechanics. Workers in a cooperative would own the new bus company, eliminating the need to allocate revenues to investors or a corporate owner. Service on approximately 15 routes would be provided by a workers cooperative. Local 100 is seeking City Hall support for a pilot program in which public school students are taken to and from school in all-electric, non-polluting yellow school buses. Law enforcement won’t keep all cars and trucks out of bus-only lanes, and it only takes one or two incursions to clog up a busy arter y. And the city needs to implement real Bus Rapid Transit with bus-only lanes that aren’t just painted a different color but also physically separated from other traffic. SBS should to be expanded at a much faster clip than the two routes a year outlined recently by Mayor de Blasio. This has several positive features that have speeded-up bus travel, including off-board payment and all-door boarding, that have speeded-up bus travel. The city has altered some street so the MTA can operate Select Bus Service. But that has to be a contributing factor to the 23% decline in the average driving speed in Manhattan since 2010. There are benefits to converting traffic lanes to pedestrian plazas and safe routes for bicyclists. There are too many cars and too little space. It’s certainly not the bus drivers’ fault. Whatever faults you want to largely assign to the MTA, this one shouldn’t be on your list. Buses can be excruciatingly slow and they are getting slower. ![]() Cuomo correctly put it in August, congestion pricing is an “idea whose time has come.” Charging motorists to enter a large swath of traffic-clogged Manhattan will encourage more people to take mass transit, and generate the massive amounts of money needed to have a world-class system capable of moving more riders efficiently. In that light, here are some of the initiatives that Transport Workers Union Local 100 either supports or is working directly to make a reality:Īs Gov. Improving and expanding mass transit has to be given crisis-level priority to slash the number of people traveling in cars, including taxis. There’s no single magical cure but scores of steps – as large as sweeping transitions to renewal energy to composting at home – might get us out of this mess. ![]() SuperStorm Sandy would be just another weekend. By 2100, the city’s flood zone could cover 99-square miles. ![]() According to one recent study, this is what NYC residents might experience in the not-that-distant future if we don’t somehow avoid this environmental train wreck: by mid-century, the number of heat waves per year could more than triple, the number of days over 90 degrees annually could double, and the sea level could rise by nearly two feet. That has to change, or those bleak predictions by scientists will come to fruition in one form or another. It’s one of those things you blurt out in passing to a neighbor you feel compelled to acknowledge with a brief exchange of words but don’t really want to get stuck in a conversation with. ![]() If anything, we might quip that Climate Change isn’t such a bad thing - if it means we get to wear wear t-shirts and do yard work when we normally would be dressed for sub-freezing weather and chopping ice off the driveway. We don’t make drastic, wholesale changes to our lifestyles. We don’t loudly demand that our elected officials and institutions take aggressive crisis-level steps to address it. Not really, but it’s treated as such by too many of us. ![]()
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