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Ilanaspax t1_jat30fp wrote

Reply to comment by down_up__left_right in St Mary of the Immaculate Conception on 2nd st told the funeral guests to just park and block the street. People parked, like me, who need to go can’t leave. What can I do? How is this allowed? by munchlaxsleeps

It’s almost like my comment was a reply to someone demanding we ban cars from downtown in general? It’s okay - reading can be hard for some people :)

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down_up__left_right t1_jat3b1d wrote

>It’s almost like my comment was a reply to someone demanding we ban cars from downtown in general?

As I already said that's not true.

Since the post is there for us all to read we can see that what he said was:

>Jersey City needs a congestion fee for out of town drivers. They need to increase the cost for a permit to drive more people to get rid of the cars that they don’t need and use public transportation (we obviously need better public transportation as well). They need to increase parking fines and increase the number of cars that are towed.

Nowhere in his post is he arguing for banning cars.

>It’s okay - reading can be hard for some people :)

The irony.

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Ilanaspax t1_jat5e1x wrote

Amazing that you did all this and still missed the point - you can’t limit people’s access to downtown without improving public transit infrastructure. It’s classist and shitty to the rest of JC.

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down_up__left_right t1_jat6o5s wrote

>you can’t limit people’s access to downtown without improving public transit infrastructure.

Here we are in a post about people choosing to drive and park in the center of the street for a location within walking distance to both the path and the lightrail and you're saying the cause is lack of public transit. Both of those transit systems that can easily get people to this Church have stations that are park and ride focused.

The reality is these people had transit options and just chose to drive instead. The reality is most of downtown is accessible by transit. Driving through downtown is a choice. JerseyCityGeordie just wants that choice to reflect the cost of the land it requires. Especially since not everyone can afford a car so why should they be subsidizing the cost of parking for other people?

If some people parked in the middle of the road by Union Square in the city would you say "Well maybe their trip didn't originate directly next to a subway stop so the blame is on the public transit system?" Or would you at least agree that would be a crazy thing to say? This isn't that far off from that heighten example. This is a location that people can get to without cars.

>It’s classist and shitty to the rest of JC.

What should we call parking in the middle of the road?

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