Buses are fast. Broadway is on the rise. There is more toe traffic in the lowermons than the sidewalk. And the subway ridershop includes hundreds of thousands.
But, don’t tell the man with a pickle!
The latest example of how the car owners’ windshield views distort their reality.
This is not clearly, but he didn’t stop the owner of the boys on the Grand Street – who runs from Queens to his dear Lower East Side Famet Factory every day – to feel that business is falling.
“I sell $ 9 products,” Al -Kafman told the Alliance to protect them in Chennhatown and Lower East Side. ” It has just released reports. “It’s difficult for my customer to pay $ 9 tool and $ 4 to buy $ 9 products !!!! Everything grows [in price]So I’m forced to deliver it to my customers.
Kafman’s comments were similar to others in the survey, claiming to represent the opinion of 112 business owners, of which 86 % said they opposed the tool. But the reasons were completely contradictory, which reflects everything in the wall and consciousness, and some are frustrated: 71 % said that the tool has reduced customer traffic, while 53 % said that the tool has made it difficult for employees to travel.
Both things – there is no traffic! The trips are more rigorous! – Can’t be true, nor did the survey provide the business with the actual analysis of taxes and expenditures.
And, most importantly, no customer was interviewed.
So we worked for them as allies surveyors.
‘I will rather sit in traffic’
Last week, the Street Blog was dropped by the boys of the pickle, which bolds themselves as the last stand store “once in a neighborhood that is known for its shaking markets” – indicating that sheep prices are changing on the Lower East Side after this time.
The Corner Shop sells home pickles for seven days a week to tourists and community regulars. Almost none, at least one week when a $ 9 peak tool is enforced, arrives by the car.
But Kafman said he operates with Queens every day – and he admitted that his journey is now 10 minutes short, it is not that he changed it.
“It costs $ 9, so I’ll sit in traffic instead. [The saving] It’s just 10 minutes – no big deal, “Kafman said.
And he acknowledged that most of his business does not come from drivers, but said that some regularly living in the outdoor bores do not go often because they are binding their journey in the zone instead of driving just for one thing-which is one of the goals of sheep pricing traffic.
He refused to provide strict evidence that the pricing of the crowd was hurting his business.
“These are mostly comments that I get from people who drive, but it will not be so important.” “People will not come in, or wait until they arrive [to Manhattan] To watch the show or do something else. I had a couple of people who said they went to meet the doctor and they felt that they would come down and get the pickle. They are not going to make a journey, they are going to connect their tours. Traffic is low, I agree, but is it worth it? “
Transportation experts say this is. The idea to determine the crowd pricing, partially, people have to internalize their travels, so that drivers can pay a little more than the “real price” of driving so that they can choose better for the region.
If people are combining tours so that they are doing their crowd relief zone more effectively, which we will expect and expect. The policy is working, said Rahil Vinbajar, the Research and Strategic Director of the Regional Plan Association.
What do users think?
Last week, on our visit, pickles were carrying orders for e -commerce supply, while consumers took to capture a shiny breakfast, scooter or transit. The busy corner is well presented by transit: M14A and M9 bus just outside the door, and the Delinisi Street/Essex Street Je train is a block away.
Alfonso Garcia, who lives in Alfabat City, was visiting the boys for the first time since the purchase of a trader who was purchased. Garcia used his electric scooter to get the goods for his pickle -loving partner.
“I understand some people and some people hate it,” Garcia said about sheep prices. ” “I know that he has helped [with traffic]. I feel more comfortable on my scooter.
Josh Santana, who was leaving pickles with her father, said that he has been living in this neighborhood all his life and loves the pickle shop. He and his father walk to do all their work, including catching pickles, which they use for cooking, breakfast and even a hang over treatment.
“We do anything here, we are going to walk,” Santana said about her lower East side neighborhood.
Two Chicago visitors, Alex Smith and Max M., told the Street Blog that they were living on the Lower East side and were walking and taking transit during their journey, including visiting the boys with pickles.
Smith said, “This area is really accessible.” Driving will be difficult, so I have the idea to end driving [with congestion pricing].
Jessica Bieber, who lives in the neighborhood and often meets with her younger daughter, is a huge neighborhood to walk towards the lower east.
“We walk, make public transport and the scooters arrive everywhere,” said Bieber, Bieber said, grabbing his daughter, grabbing his bright purple scooter.
To humiliate the survey
Survey is a perfect example of AThe effect of false consensus” – A kind of prejudice that business owners assume that their customers drive business because they do. I Study After StudyIn cities around the world, business owners have proved wrong about how their customers roam, always walk and reduce those who take on motorcycle, motorcycle, or public transport.
“I think it is fair to say that people speculate about going around others,” said Jockey Cohen, director of climate and equity policy in the Tree State Transportation Campaign. “The parallel I will draw will be the 14th Street Busway Manhattan, where, when we were advocating for the busway to be practiced, business owners, along with the 14th Street, have made many arguments that it is going to hit the business. And this was not the case.”
Initial data, which has been collected after the crowd pricing camera, which is just two months ago, suggests that the zone has increased the traffic in the zone, and that the business is upwards. According to the open table, credit card companies have increased by about billion dollars based on the data of credit card companies, and restaurant reservations have increased by 7 % over the year.
“I appreciate that people feel that this policy hurts their business, but … this will be the other evidence we see, in which Monday’s traffic and retail sales are around the city.”
Listening and guessing
The survey relies heavily on the opinion of business owners who often work to work and questions related to other displaced pressures in the locality like growing fares, which have nothing to do with it.
A long -last resident, who prefers to remain anonymous because of the group’s tactics, said they are very excited about the results of the crowd and are still struggling to seek reservations in the famous neighboring restaurant.
“I like it,” he said about a new tool. “I can really see the reduction in the crowd.”
In fact, the alliance for the protection of Chennatown and Lower East Side Survey has failed to indicate that the majority of community residents are not a driver and will benefit the quality of tool supply, low pollution and low traffic supply. In fact, residents of Chennatown and Lower East Side drive only 6.6 % to work. And 83 % of households do not have access to car, according to Census data.
“We have a number of people traveling by car and it is a vast, wider, wide, widely negative people who rely on public transit because they cannot do or do not work. What do they think about their journey? Cohen said.
But the pricing of the crowd is in the culture war, the idea is a fact. Except that this impression is coming from cities coming out of the city. The survey said that the majority of business owners who responded Don’t stay in the neighborhood.
And this is the conclusion – not those who take advantage of, but rather the rights that pay the rights: “Tool makes people difficult to access low manhattan, which is much less than any potential benefits to the crowd.”
Has link to the survey A post of Urban InstituteBut it is wrong to take advantage of it: that all the evidence suggests that the investment in public transit is good for the economic prospects of communities and their residents.
What does sheep pricing do at its core level? Fund public transit.
Cohen said, “Driving is not a public transit. Who does the buses serve? Basically low -income passengers, and thus to be able to improve their service by reducing the amount of absolute wall in the wall vehicle traffic, which we are facing, is a huge victory.
President Trump has eliminated sheep prices by the “working class” New Yorkers (who, in fact, not driving in the city with a large majority). After the announcement that they will move forward to end the toll last month, the MTA immediately. The federal government was tried. Governor Huchul has vowed that he has vowed to retain the cameras and receive taxes until Trump is present in court.
Sheep pricing is still the law of land, right now. And as time is going on, there will be clear data on the impact of the tool.
