WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.879 It's nice side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you by 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:06.120 Constance video. 3 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:10.880 Now, thank you very much. Okay, we're gonna have some 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:18.839 fun this hour. This is incredible. If you're going to 5 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.359 New York this weekend, on Sunday, specifically, you will be 6 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.120 one of the first people in New York City. And 7 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:30.399 I don't know if we had this in any other 8 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.520 cities around America, but New York, probably San Francisco now 9 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.479 that I think about it. But in New York they're 10 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:43.240 going to start congestion pricing on Sunday. So if you 11 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:48.240 have an easy pass and you drive down there, you'll 12 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:52.039 be charged if you drive into certain sections of the city. 13 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:56.840 Now it's not as simple as all that, but but 14 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.880 I'm telling you right now, I'm looking into my crystal ball, 15 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.879 and what happens in New York City this Sunday will 16 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.239 soon be happening in Boston, and it will be happening 17 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:12.319 in Baltimore, and it will be happening in Philadelphia and 18 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:17.359 Buffalo and every other city with Manchester, well maybe not Manchester, 19 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:22.079 New Hampshire, but every major city in America. The folks 20 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.920 who run the cities in America, they have a few 21 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:30.400 things in common. They don't mind criminal behavior. They're not 22 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.280 really anxious to put bad people in jail and get 23 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:36.599 them off the streets. No no, no, no, no no. 24 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.920 But the thing that they really like is they like 25 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:45.840 to harass people who drive automobiles because you and me 26 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:51.120 are the enemy. That's why when you see bike lanes 27 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:56.239 sprouting everywhere, that is not an effort to say we 28 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.680 welcome motor vehicles. No, quite the opposite. And the ultimate 29 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:08.120 game plan is congestion pricing. Now, the governor of New York, 30 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:13.840 Kathy Hokeel, if there's a dumber governor in America, I 31 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:18.280 will accept nominations, but I defy you to find a 32 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:23.479 dumber governor in America. This is Kathy Hokeel a few 33 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:29.319 days ago explaining congestion pricing, and she is going We're 34 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.800 going to play three sound bites for you. Just listen 35 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:38.439 to what this governor says. She basically says, she explains 36 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.960 what congestion pricing is. And then she says she tries 37 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:49.840 to tell you that with congestion pricing and it costing 38 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.159 you more money to drive into pretty much anywhere in 39 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.360 Lower Manhattan, that she's going to save you forty percent. 40 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:02.360 This will give you insight in how the minds of 41 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:12.000 politicians work. They look at your money as their money. Now, 42 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.240 I know you don't believe me, but when you hear 43 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.120 these three sound bites, you're going to agree with me. 44 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:19.360 So let's first of all, listen to Kathy Hokeel talk 45 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:25.879 about how wonderful congestion pricing will be for everyone. Cut 46 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:26.400 one rob. 47 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:30.319 I have made affordability for New York families a top priority. 48 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:36.039 I always have and I always will fight to put 49 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:40.639 more money in the pockets of everyday New Yorkers. That's 50 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:44.080 why back in June, I set up on behalf of 51 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:49.599 hard working families and simply said no No to a 52 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:54.080 new fifteen dollars congestion. Told that at that particular time 53 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.680 was just too much. Too many people were worrying about 54 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:06.000 high costs, groceries, rent, childcare. These are real challenges for 55 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.400 our families, and launching a toll that high really would 56 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.039 have hurt a working mom or working dad trying to 57 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:18.199 make ends meet, especially someone driving in from a transportation 58 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.720 desert or far from outside the center of the city. 59 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:29.800 Boy, she's wonderful, isn't she. She's just wonderful. She's going 60 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:34.519 to save us money. No she's not. No, she's not. 61 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:40.160 Instead of charging you fifteen dollars a day or every 62 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:43.399 time you drive into this area, she's only going to 63 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:47.120 charge you nine dollars. And she now is going to 64 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.600 try to tell you that she's saving you forty percent. 65 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.560 Think about what she's saying. We're gonna play the second 66 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:57.439 sound bite now, in which she is actually going to 67 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.480 try to make the argument that she me is saving 68 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:06.920 you money by charging you nine dollars. This is the 69 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:12.439 way her mind, and the minds of many progressive politicians work. 70 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.639 Cut to rub As governor, it is my job to 71 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.639 make decisions that take into account the needs of all 72 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:24.279 working New Yorkers. So I made the decision to put 73 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:28.720 the congestion pricing program on pause while we devise a 74 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:35.399 different path forward. State law requires that congestion pricing simultan 75 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:41.759 simultaneously raise money for the MTA and drive down traffic congestion. 76 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:48.920 These are important priorities, but I believe that no New 77 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:51.759 Yorker should have to pay a penny more than absolutely 78 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:58.040 necessary to achieve these goals. And fifteen dollars was too much. 79 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:05.040 Wow, Wow, what a hero, What a hero. So remember 80 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.920 she's still trying to tell you that she is working 81 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.360 for you. She is working for you. So she's about 82 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:17.079 to tell you that instead of charging you fifteen dollars 83 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.439 every time you drive into New York City, she's only 84 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.000 going to charge you nine dollars. She's saving you forty percent. 85 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.920 I mean, that's like going to a loan shark and 86 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.199 having the loan shark say to you, look, you don't 87 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.000 have to pay me back one thousand dollars a week. 88 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.279 You got in order, you got to pay me back 89 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:42.839 six hundred dollars a week. If you don't pay me 90 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.480 back six hundred dollars a week, obviously i'm gonna break 91 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.680 your legs. But I'm gonna save you four hundred dollars 92 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.720 because I'm really a good guy. Well, that's like a 93 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:57.920 robber coming in your house and asking you how much 94 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.600 money do you have in your house here, and you say, well, 95 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.759 I have three hundred dollars, and the robber says, okay, 96 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:10.240 I'll only take two hundred. So I'm really going to 97 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:13.360 save you one hundred. Okay, So they're going to take 98 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:15.480 two hundred dollars of The robber is going to take 99 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.759 two hundred dollars of your money, but he's going to 100 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.360 save you one hundred dollars. Now you don't believe me 101 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.120 that that's the theory of Governor Kathy Hokeel Cut three Rob. 102 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.480 And I'm proud to announce we have found a path 103 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:34.279 to find the MTA, reduce congestion god and keep millions 104 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:38.680 of dollars in the pockets of our commuters. Under this plan, 105 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:43.959 the MTA will implement a congestion pricing plan with a 106 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:49.720 reduced daytime toll of nine dollars beginning in January. You've 107 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:53.839 heard that correctly. It was fifteen dollars before and now 108 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:58.040 it is nine dollars. That is a forty percent reduction. 109 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.480 This tall. 110 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:07.600 We'll save daily commuters nearly fifteen hundred dollars annually, and 111 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.879 that kind of money makes a big difference for our families. 112 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.839 You will say fifteen hundred dollars annually, but you will 113 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:23.560 pay twenty five hundred dollars for congestion pricing. This to 114 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:27.920 me is just insane. And if New Yorkers do not 115 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.079 stand up and rise and say, what do you think 116 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:34.840 we're stupid? We're do what do you think we're absolute? 117 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:44.440 I mean stupid? I mean talk about adding insult to injury. 118 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.240 She thinks that by telling you we were going to 119 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.519 charge you fifteen, now we're going to only charge you nine, 120 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.720 that means you'll save six dollars a day. Multiply that over. 121 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.840 Let's say you are going in and out to New 122 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.200 York City two hundred times to save you're twelve hundred 123 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.600 dollars a year. No, it's not. It's gonna cost you 124 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:08.799 eighteen hundred dollars a year. And let me tell you, 125 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:14.320 by the way, I have the congestion pricing relief zone. 126 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.240 They call it a relief zone. It's not a relief 127 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:20.799 zone for drivers, is it now? Okay? They call it 128 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:25.200 the opposite of what it is. The MTA is phasing 129 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.879 in the toll structure over a six year period so 130 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.840 that it will be nine dollars for cars to start, 131 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:36.879 it will be twelve dollars in twenty twenty eight, and 132 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:42.559 it will be fifteen dollars in twenty thirty one. Small 133 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:48.720 trucks they're gonna pay fourteen forty. Large trucks, tour buses 134 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:56.679 will pay twenty one sixty At just unbelievable. What's gonna 135 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.720 happen is if you keep putting democrats in charge of 136 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:05.159 a big American cities. Big American cities will go absolutely, 137 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:10.720 they will be shadows of what they once were. If 138 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:12.399 you don't think it's coming to a city near you, 139 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:17.039 trust me, now is the time to speak up against it. Okay. 140 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:21.320 One of the things about this country is freedom. Freedom 141 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.720 to travel. Okay. And there should be no cost associated 142 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:29.120 with driving in or out of New York City, because 143 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:31.960 when you drive in and out of New York City, 144 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.320 you are paying through the nose. You pay through the 145 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:36.720 nose for your hotel room, you pay through the nose 146 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.360 to park your car overnight if you're lucky, you pay 147 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.639 through the nose. To the restaurants you go to, you 148 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:43.759 pay through the nose if you buy anything in New 149 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:46.360 York City. All this is going to do is say 150 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:51.360 to people, look, they are just picking my pocket every 151 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:53.440 minute of the day that I'm in New York City. 152 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.600 I don't need New York City. I don't need New 153 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.000 York City. I can find other cities that I can 154 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.840 go to and enjoy myself. And I can look at 155 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:07.120 pictures of New York City. They will kill New York City. 156 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:10.799 Go to New York City, drive the empty ride in 157 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.799 the MTA, and try not to get shoved in front 158 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.240 of an oncoming train. Go to New York City and 159 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.879 nod off in a subway system and hope that someone 160 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:23.639 doesn't light you on fire. Six one, seven, two, five, 161 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:27.240 four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. 162 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:31.840 If you don't think that they are watching in Boston, Massachusetts, 163 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:36.360 and in Washington, DC and everywhere everywhere, every big city, 164 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:40.080 this is just another scam to pick your pocket. My 165 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.480 name is Dan Ray. I believe so strongly in what 166 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:48.000 I have said and the hypocrisy and the absolute arrogance 167 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:53.240 of Governor Kathy Hockel to think that she could sell 168 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:58.080 that to you as a cost savings boggles my mind. 169 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:00.600 I'd love to hear from you. Join the conversation. B 170 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:01.679 right back on night Side. 171 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.759 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 172 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.679 to night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 173 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:15.720 By the way, if if if you don't believe me, 174 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:20.679 you don't want to believe what you just heard, uh 175 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:23.799 you know, check it out, go joke, check out congestion 176 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:27.080 relief zone. It's wonderful how they they call this. And 177 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.799 now again, as Rob mentioned during the break, even if 178 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:31.679 you live in New York, let's assume you live in 179 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:33.159 New York and you don't have a car and you 180 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:38.360 don't care about it. By by the way, uh taxis 181 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.960 and for higher for higher vehicles, uh instead of paying 182 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:45.559 the daily toll taxis and for higher vehicles licensed with 183 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.919 the NYC Taxi and Limos Commission will be eligible for 184 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.559 a smaller per trip charge paid by the passenger for 185 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.240 each trip two from within and through the congestion relief zone. 186 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:00.360 So they have bought off the taxi cab drivers in, 187 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:03.440 the uber drivers and the lyft drivers. They're okay. But 188 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.879 if you're driving your car in, it goes for both 189 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.200 the peak and overnight period. The per trip charge for 190 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.200 high volume for higher vehicles will be a dollar fifty. 191 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.519 For taxi, green cabs and black cars, the per trip 192 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:18.840 charge will beat seventy five cents. So if you're a 193 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.840 wealthy New Yorker and you want to take a limo in, 194 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:25.679 it's going to cost you seventy five cents additional. How 195 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.759 about that? Huh? How about that? And of course the 196 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.600 cars of government officials like Governor Hochel, they don't have 197 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.320 to pay anything, but the porschemuck like you or me 198 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.639 that have to work in New York City, You're going 199 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:42.120 to end up paying nine dollars a day, five days 200 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.200 a week. And oh, by the way, all of the 201 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:48.840 trucks that deliver the commercial products that New York City 202 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:54.320 or any city needs to run, small trucks, single unit trucks, 203 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.799 some buses will pay a toll of fourteen forty during 204 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.639 the peak period, three point sixty during the overnight period. 205 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:03.399 Large trucks, tour buses will paid twenty one sixty. All 206 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.960 those costs are going to be passed on to you consumers. 207 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.360 If you're living in New York right now and you 208 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.960 want to defend your governor, I'd love to hear from you, 209 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.279 Or if you're living in New York and you are 210 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.240 as appalled as I am that the good people of 211 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:25.879 New York would have elected her governor. This is insanity. 212 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:31.000 Is it is built on the need, the theoretical need 213 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:34.039 for climate change. I mean, that's what these folks really 214 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:38.519 what drives them. Okay, the al Gore theories on the 215 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:42.120 John Kerries of the world, who will never pay a congestion, 216 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:46.039 you know, fee or cost ever. Ever, the people who 217 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:48.279 fly around to the conferences around the world and their 218 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:54.399 private jets and talk about global warming. But the thing is, 219 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.799 I am telling you what she is talking about coming 220 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:02.440 to New York this weekend, becoming to wherever you live. 221 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.600 If you happen to frequent a large city. Now, if 222 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.799 you live in Reading, Pennsylvania and you never have to 223 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:12.320 go to Philadelphia, you'll be okay. If you live somewhere 224 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.480 in western Maryland you have to never have to go 225 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:16.960 to Washington and Baltimore, you're okay. I guess if you 226 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:18.799 live in the Berkshires and your chooes have to come 227 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.679 into Boston, you're okay. I'll never go to New York again. 228 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:27.639 I will never ever ever go to New York again. 229 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:30.039 Let's go to phone calls. I got a bunch of 230 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.240 lines here, folks. If you are quiet on this topic, 231 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.200 we'll move on and we'll we'll talk about maybe what's 232 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.120 your favorite color or something like that. Six one, seven, two, 233 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.559 five four ten thirty six one seven nine three one 234 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:46.799 ten thirty. I think sometimes people think that I'm I'm 235 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:53.320 not telling you I'm trying to do a piece of satire. No, 236 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:57.240 I'm not doing satire. This is truth. This is truth. 237 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.799 So Zann used to live in New York. New York 238 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.600 is is very different place these days. Is in Welcome Back? 239 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.639 Well then I had various roommates and in New York 240 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:12.080 and I'm in Massachusetts. But you know what's illegal on 241 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:16.639 the streets of New York is three card Monty, where 242 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:20.480 the guys have three cards and there's a price under one, 243 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:23.399 but you never get it. That's what Kathy Hilchem is 244 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:26.440 doing with New York City. She don't all to me. 245 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.960 Yeah, I think I think you're right on that. And 246 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:33.159 the point is for her to try to tell you, 247 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:35.159 or me or the people of New York because she's 248 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.279 really not talking to me that somehow she's going to 249 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.919 save you money, save you money by only charging you 250 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.559 nine dollars, and that's going to save them fifteen hundred 251 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.960 dollars a year. How stupid does she think? 252 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:46.320 You know? 253 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:48.960 You can get a taxi in New York You either 254 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.240 share it or you walk, or you take the subway, 255 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.679 or you just give up and say home. If you 256 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.960 if you take the subway, maker and you take the. 257 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:04.720 Down please rob. If you take the subway, you were 258 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:08.039 taking your life into your hands. People in New York 259 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.680 City are pushed in front of moving subway trains. The 260 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.839 woman that was lit on fire, grew up apparently in 261 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.519 New Jersey. So New York is not the place, Susan 262 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.519 bringer back is not the place that that you knew 263 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:27.559 many years ago. It has changed. 264 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:30.279 Down anymore. 265 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.279 Yeah, all right, Susan. Appreciate you, Carl, thank you so much. 266 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:35.319 Talk to you soon. Have a great night. Good night 267 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:45.079 to me. It's it's unbelievable that we as citizens are 268 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:53.079 so compliant with what these politicians feel they can impose 269 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:57.480 upon us. I mean, we all understand. I think that 270 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.039 taxation is the price of civilisation. I get all of that. 271 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.440 I get all of that. But to try to tell 272 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.880 people we're only going to charge you nine dollars and 273 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.079 we're going to save you money absurd. Let me go 274 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:16.200 to Audrey in Cambridge. Audrey, welcome next time. How are you? 275 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:18.240 Oh, I'm fine, Thank you. 276 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:18.519 Dan. 277 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.880 I had to call because you know, and I know 278 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.799 the next city that'll be doing this after maybe after Boston, 279 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:25.799 will be Cambridge. 280 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.559 Oh, Cambridge I'm sure is chopping at the bit and 281 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:29.279 followed close. 282 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:36.640 They have destroyed our city. I mean, it's just unbelievable. 283 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.160 Between the bike lanes and of course the bicyclist do 284 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.559 not have to obey any traffic rules at all. Oh okay, 285 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.480 and the stores are suffering. I mean, this has been 286 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.759 going on and they're just now they're they're they're in 287 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:52.640 the process of redoing Cambridge Street. They've done every other 288 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.480 possible street they can do. Uh, and it's it's nageous 289 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.440 and it just gives that cream the statement the inmates 290 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:03.480 are running the asylum. I mean, it's just crazy, you know, 291 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.000 and I can see what's happening. 292 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:11.240 How stupid do you think Governor Hokeel thinks her constituents 293 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.319 are to stand there and say to them, well, we 294 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.920 are going to charge you fifteen dollars, but I intervened 295 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.400 and we're only going to be charged nine. So you're 296 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:27.160 going to save fifteen hundred a year. Can you imagine that? 297 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:30.000 No, you don't have to be a mathematical genius to 298 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:34.880 see that. I mean, it's just incredible that he would there, 299 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.920 she would think that people. That's stupid. 300 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:39.440 Do you know how much we spent? Do you know 301 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:42.160 how much was spent? I found out last night from 302 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.640 State Senator Nick Collins. Guess how much Boston has spent 303 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.119 on bike lanes? Take a guess, wild guest. 304 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.880 Oh god, I don't even want to think about it. 305 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.079 Take against take a guess ten million dollars, twenty million. 306 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.119 Dollars, oh oh oh, at least I'd say twenty at 307 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:57.279 least at least. 308 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:01.240 Underd to twenty one, one hundred and twenty one billion dollars. 309 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:05.720 Oh yeah, yeah, okay, And that's from bike lanes for 310 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:07.799 the two percent of the people in the winter who 311 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:12.000 will drive their bikes, you know, between I don't know, 312 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:18.119 Thanksgiving and Memorial Day rights, right, it's it's insanity. 313 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.559 And the thing with the environment what kills me is 314 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:24.599 I've been thinking of all these kinds and the traffic patterns, 315 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:28.559 so bizign now that they stalled, you know, sitting in 316 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.440 traffic and all those films are coming into the environment, 317 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:33.720 and they don't think that way. 318 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:34.400 You know. 319 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:37.960 The other thing, the other thing that that they do. 320 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.119 And of course, if you really think it through here, 321 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.920 which we're going to do right now, is uh you 322 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:45.720 look at Cambridge on the map and you think to yourself, Okay, 323 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:48.559 that's a community that you know there has some cars 324 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:50.920 and all of that. If we can if we can 325 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.599 stop them, if we can make them compliant and and 326 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:57.960 and put nothing into the atmosphere that's going to save 327 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:03.160 the planet. Even though those companies and those countries in Pakistan, India, 328 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.880 China are belching stuff up into the atmosphere. But I'm 329 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.000 sure they think that, we think that all the stuff 330 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:15.559 that Pakistan and and and and China, uh and and 331 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:19.279 Indonesia belt into the atmosphere just kind of stays over 332 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:21.680 those countries and it doesn't affect us. 333 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:24.440 Oh, I'm sure that's what they think. I'm sure that's 334 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:26.680 what they think, you know. I mean, it's just one 335 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:29.079 thing after the other. I mean, it's just but this. 336 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:30.640 I had a call. I said, oh my gosh, I 337 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:32.599 can't regeally the next city to do this. I mean, 338 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:34.559 these crazy people that are running out of city. 339 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:36.559 It's well, you know, they done it in London, done 340 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.720 it in London for years. Uh. And of course, the 341 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:42.519 people who were never impacted by this, uh, the uber 342 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:47.839 wealthy who probably working working into their uh you know, 343 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:50.680 into their contract with law firms or whatever where where 344 00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:52.519 they have a car. They get a leased car. They 345 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.240 don't have to pay for anything their employer. But the 346 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:59.960 average person, the guy who's a plumber and he has 347 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.720 some classes in New York City, he's the he's the person. 348 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:05.680 She's the person who's gonna have to pay for it. 349 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:08.319 And again it's just the arrogance. When I looked at 350 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:12.200 her and I thought to myself, you must think your 351 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:17.400 constituents are morons. Now again, if yeah, maybe she's right, 352 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.640 maybe they are. And if there are people listening in 353 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:23.240 New York tonight, and if you're happy with Governor Hulkel, 354 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:30.759 give us a call and tell us why it's well, 355 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:33.000 I'm telling you something. It's one of these mad as hell. 356 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:34.880 I'm not going to take it anymore. That's how I feel, 357 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:35.519 right well. 358 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:38.039 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I mean we're battling things here 359 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:39.920 all the time in Cambridge, as you know. I mean, 360 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:41.400 it's just it doesn't seem to do any good, but 361 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.680 you still have to keep fighting, you know. I Mean 362 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:46.519 we went against I don't know how many bicyclists of 363 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:49.640 a city hall one night just to delay the Cambridge 364 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:52.000 Street thing. And there were hundreds of them. When I 365 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:54.799 tell you what, little kids, little kids that could barely speak. 366 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:56.759 They put them up to the microphone and everything, and 367 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:59.680 there were two of us, but we had four hundred signatures. 368 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:02.079 So at least regard it's delayed. But that's not going 369 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:03.359 to stop it, you know. 370 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:05.599 That's the problem. That's the problem, and the problem is 371 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:09.200 it will never stop until their goal is to be 372 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:14.400 in all private automobile traffic in Cambridge, in Boston, in 373 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:17.799 New York, and they're going to make it, make it expensive, 374 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:20.799 and then eventually they're going to say it's so expensive. 375 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:24.720 We don't want to impose this on anyone. So everyone 376 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:27.720 now has to take take take the take the the 377 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:30.599 MTA in New York. Uh, and just make sure that 378 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:32.759 no one pushes you in front of an oncoming train, 379 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:35.160 or no one lights you on fire if you happen 380 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:37.559 to nod off or sitting on a bench in the 381 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.240 subway station. Think about that, think about that. Take your 382 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.599 life in danger, put your you know, take your life, 383 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:47.480 and just just kind of roll the dice anyway, Audrey, 384 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:49.359 I love your calls. You got to call more off. 385 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.039 Okay, thank you so well, Thanks so much. 386 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:57.160 Happy New Year, Audrey, Thanks very much. Six ten thirty, 387 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:01.160 six one seven thirty. That's the best line right now. 388 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:02.960 I get two open lines there, six one seven nine. 389 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:06.839 Maybe you don't think congestion pricing is going to be 390 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:09.759 an issue in Boston, Well you're wrong. It won't be 391 00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:12.680 an issue because we have a mayoral election coming up 392 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:16.839 this November. But I guarantee you that once New York 393 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:19.759 puts it in, Boston will not be far behind. And 394 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.720 it affects everyone, not just people in Boston, but people 395 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:27.079 come into Boston. So get on the record, join the conversation. 396 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:29.880 Back on Nightside right after this, at ten o'clock, we're 397 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:32.319 going to change topics and we're going to talk about 398 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:35.119 a new law in the state of Florida called the 399 00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:38.079 Halo Law. We'll explain that as well, and then at 400 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:42.000 eleven tonight we will talk about your twenty twenty five 401 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:44.559