WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:04.320 It's Night's Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you please, 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:06.080 Boston's News Radio. 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:10.960 All right, Well, a subject that we talk about often 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.839 is Boston traffic, and whenever there's a traffic report that 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:22.239 comes out that implicates Boston drivers problems for Boston drivers, 6 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:23.920 we like to talk about it. So the Boston Herald 7 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:29.079 Today interesting article by Grace Djakovic at Boston Herald dot 8 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.640 com says that Boston ranks fourth in the United States, 9 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.520 fourth worst in the United States, and twelfth in the world. 10 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.960 Twelfth worst in the world in terms of overall congestion. 11 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:53.560 Now in Boston, Boston typical driver lost eighty eight hours 12 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:00.520 to traffic throughout the year. This is an unbelievable amount 13 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.840 of time when you think about it. It also means 14 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:09.519 that when they lost eighty eight hours of time just 15 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:13.000 sitting in traffic, average speed of Boston's downtown driver is 16 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:15.560 thirteen miles an hour. Now, I know we're an old city. 17 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.799 I get all of that. I totally get all of that, 18 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:24.319 But this is crazy. We spent I think it was 19 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:28.599 twenty four billion dollars on the big dig back from 20 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.280 the late eighties through the nineties. Those of you who 21 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:35.359 weren't living here at the time, don't remember the inconvenience 22 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.239 of the big dig. But we were told, oh, when 23 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.120 the big dig is done, we're going to be just fine. 24 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:47.359 Well we're not. We're not just fine. In Boston, we 25 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:54.120 lost seventy nine Computing to the report found that Boston 26 00:01:54.480 --> 00:02:00.920 drivers lost seventy nine hours. That's I mean, that's a 27 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:08.280 lot of time and and fourteen dollars sitting in traffic. Now, 28 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:16.840 this this is crazy. I was driving yesterday. I was 29 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:21.120 actually my wife was driving, and we were going down 30 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:25.560 Beacon Street. I try to avoid Beacon Street, all of 31 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.639 those streets whenever I can, put me on store drive 32 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:32.120 and let me get out of town. But my wife's 33 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.280 not a fan of store drive. So we were driving 34 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.400 down Beacon Street. Those of you who live in Boston, 35 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:42.639 no Beacon Street. So from Beacon Street and Charles Street 36 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:49.800 to Mass Avenue probably like two miles maybe tops two 37 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.080 and a half had to take us at least twenty minutes. 38 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:56.120 There are bike lanes all the way down on both 39 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:01.400 sides of the street, right side, left side. There are 40 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:07.800 parking lanes on both sides of the street on both 41 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.400 on the on the right side, I guess it's one 42 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:15.199 way street heading out bound, and basically we're down to 43 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:18.719 two lanes. It used to be three lanes on Beacon Street. 44 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:22.240 It was built as a y thoroughfare, Commonwealth Avenue, y thoroughfare, 45 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:29.800 and it's maddening. It's maddening because yesterday this was noontime 46 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:33.719 or show twelve thirty one o'clock, there was double park 47 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.439 People double parked and have banded their cars. So in 48 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.439 many areas of Beacon Street it was down to one 49 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:44.520 lane in traffic. There were I didn't see any police 50 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:48.840 cars out ticketing people. But now again I'm not looking 51 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:53.599 for people to be penalized, but when you lose, when 52 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:57.520 you have two bike lanes and then two sides of 53 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.639 the street for parking, you need parking. Living in the 54 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.719 back bay, and you're going to have double parking of 55 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:08.599 abandoned cars, SUVs, and for the most part you're down 56 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:11.199 to one lane. It took about twenty minutes to get 57 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:16.720 from Charles Street to Mass Avenue, which is insane. It's 58 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:19.560 absolutely insane. Now in New York they've come up with 59 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:26.279 congestion congestion pricing, and they had this funny phrase for it. 60 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:31.160 I think they call it What's the phrase they call 61 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:37.600 it congestion relief. They will have congestion relief by charging 62 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.879 you money if you want to be in Lower Manhattan 63 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:45.600 anywhere from the south side of Central Park south all 64 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:51.959 the way down through Soho and Wall Street nine dollars 65 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:59.240 for each car. This is insane. It is absolutely insane. 66 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:05.519 It is a continuing attack on automobile drivers. Uh, those 67 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:09.360 who are in power in major American cities want to 68 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:13.120 eliminate automobile traffic in their city. That's what it's all about. 69 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.040 And you can you can phrase it in terms of 70 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.519 climate change. What difference is that going to make? Not 71 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.319 going to make any difference at all, as long as 72 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.959 countries like Pakistan and India and trying to keep belching 73 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.560 stuff up into the atmosphere. Uh, the fact that that 74 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.120 you're going to be driving riding in the MBTA or 75 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:35.680 driving a tricycle to work, it won't make a difference. Yeah, 76 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.279 you can drive a tricycle. That that's they're allowed in 77 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.360 a bike lane. Let me go to Jim and Kansas City. Jim, welcome, 78 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:43.680 you are next on NIGHTSIDEM going to start us off 79 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:44.879 as our Jim gard ahead. 80 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:47.720 Dan, Hey, thanks for taking my call and then thinking 81 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.959 about this, since you talked about it on Friday night. Yeah, well, 82 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.759 I think the reason why we call it congestion relief 83 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.920 pricing is because if they call it, and if they 84 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:07.120 don't call it that, then it could be construed as 85 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:16.319 restricting people's rights under the first Article eighth section the 86 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:19.199 right to travel. It's it's it's not really a right 87 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:23.439 to travel. It's a right to have commerce or whatever, 88 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:27.199 but it's I mean, generally, I think it's it's viewed 89 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.079 as a right to be able to travel and unimpeded 90 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:35.720 from one municipality, one governments to another. And they say that. 91 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.079 So the only way they're going to get away with 92 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.399 it is if they say that they're trying to increase 93 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.199 people's ability to travel. 94 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.000 Rather than understand the point you're making. I think that 95 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.160 it's a tough point that you're trying to make legally. 96 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:52.199 Look right, do you. 97 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:54.000 Think it's well, then do you think they should be 98 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.000 it's illegal under that? Under that, No, I don't think. 99 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.360 You're going to win that argument because they're going to say, look, 100 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.279 we're not impeding people's right to travel. We're simply saying 101 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.800 that we need to regulate transportation within our community, and 102 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:09.839 if we in our community decide we want to have 103 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:11.519 do you know how much money they've spent on bike 104 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.879 lanes in Boston gym. Boston is on the same size 105 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.279 as a city as Kansas City. I mean, it's not 106 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.439 a huge metropolis. It's not New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. 107 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.600 Take a guest as to how much the city of 108 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.000 Boston has spent in the last couple of years on 109 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:27.319 bike lanes. Take a guess. 110 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.600 I might I might have heard you say this before. 111 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.920 Fourteen million, one. 112 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:35.120 Hundred and twenty one million dollars on bike lanes. 113 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:36.240 Wow, that's a lot. 114 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:40.279 Okay, yut, it's crazy, it's insane. And the number of 115 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:43.160 people who use bikes compared to the number of people 116 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:47.639 who use cars. We're an automotive society, but they want 117 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:49.879 us out of the cars. They want to make it 118 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:54.040 so expensive that people like you and me will say, 119 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.160 I give up, I'll take We call it the MBTA here. 120 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:58.879 I don't know what they call it in Kansas City, 121 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.839 but rapid transit, public transportation, or drive your bikes to work. 122 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:09.560 And every month somebody in Boston is killed riding a bike. Sad, horrible, 123 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.160 but you put people out of this sort of weather, 124 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.639 and you know, all all you need is one person 125 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.199 to make a bad decision and all of a sudden 126 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.279 they find themselves under a truck. It's but but they 127 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:24.199 could kill less. They could kill less about the lives 128 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.879 of bicyclists. They are only reacting to the bike lobby, 129 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.560 and which is, give us as many bike lanes as 130 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.320 you want, take, you know, take the roads away from 131 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.080 from drivers. Do you have bike lanes in Kansas City, 132 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:37.480 gym or no? 133 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:40.639 They have a few of them, not very many. And 134 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:42.879 they don't have very many trains either. They have this 135 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.840 one train that they put kind of downtown and it's 136 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.840 a it's a big deal because it runs through places 137 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.600 where people used to park their cars. There's not very 138 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:57.320 much free parking either. There's parking, but so you have 139 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:01.600 to pay and then walk. And there's places where people 140 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:04.759 in high places used to park their cars, like right 141 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.240 in from a city hall, and that train runs right 142 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.399 path there now, so you can't park a car there. 143 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.399 And there was a big uproar, oh probably five years 144 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:17.240 ago about this real powerful city council person who insisted 145 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:20.720 on continuing to park a car there, and it turned 146 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.120 into a big fiasco. 147 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.200 Well, I don't mind seeing the politicians lose their parking spaces, 148 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:32.000 but really, you know, I mean, at least they're they're 149 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:35.799 giving up parking spaces in Kansas City. The city councils 150 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.360 in Boston they have nice underground parking and city Hall, 151 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.559 so they're taken care of. They don't have to want 152 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:41.240 a lot of thing. 153 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:47.679 But I don't know, Oh, that's that's to me, that 154 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.320 that's one hope that you might have is to get 155 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.360 it struck down or prohib. 156 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:55.320 Well, you're you're a constitutional scholar. If you think that 157 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:58.279 that's if you can find some constitutional lawyer, good luck. 158 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.919 But like anything else, they're gonna say, Look, you could 159 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.840 make that same argument over parking meters. You could say, well, 160 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:10.080 parking meters tie up streets. This is a purely political 161 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:14.600 effort by a lot of the progressive city cities in America, 162 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:17.799 and Boston leads the way. If you get them in 163 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:21.279 Kansas City, stop them before they get going gym because 164 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:26.200 they know they want bike lanes everywhere everywhere. Trust me 165 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:31.480 on them. Okay, okay, they have some, but keep it 166 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.639 down to a minimum. Trust me, it's not worth it, 167 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.240 particularly in the city like Boston. 168 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.720 There's one there's one place over here. There's a kind 169 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.360 of a street where it's it's kind of hard to explain, 170 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:43.639 but you have to unless you want to go way 171 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:45.759 out of your way, you have to take this street. 172 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.240 It's called in one place is called Truman, and then 173 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.919 it becomes I think something else, but end me a picture. 174 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.639 So I it's tough to explain it on the radio. Gym. 175 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:56.679 I gotta run. I gotta break. 176 00:10:57.399 --> 00:10:59.639 There's a place where the road goes straight from two 177 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.080 lane so one lane, without almost no warning whatsoever, in 178 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:04.639 order to accommodate the bike lane. 179 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:07.159 We got plenty of those in Boston. We got plenty 180 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.399 of those roads in Boston, Gym, trust me. Hey, I 181 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.559 gotta run, Jim, I gotta I got a commercial break. 182 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.440 I gotta get to Thank you much, appreciate you call. 183 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.840 We'll take a break. Six one, seven, two thirty, triple 184 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:18.960 eight nine two, nine, ten thirty. Are you looking forward 185 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:22.240 to congestion pricing in Boston? You know what that means. 186 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:24.320 It means that you and I will have to pay 187 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.200 nine bucks, ten bucks whatever just to drive for the 188 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.159 privilege of driving into the city. Uh. And all it 189 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.279 will mean is the only the uber wealthy, meaning those 190 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.720 who work in law firms and uh, they get their 191 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:43.279 their their vehicles, all their expenses are paid. The average person, uh, 192 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:47.120 and you know is gonna end up. They're forcing you 193 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:49.559 to ride in the MBTA, just like they're forcing you 194 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:52.679 in New York. We're gonna talk about congestion pricing. We 195 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.519 talked about it the other night. I want to continue 196 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.399 to talk about it tonight back on night Side six 197 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.679 one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven, nine, 198 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.720 ten thirty. I'd love to hear from anyone in New York. 199 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:06.200 They had it yesterday and today was the first workday 200 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:11.639 of congestion pricing. I'm sure, I'm sure that New Yorkers 201 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.559 are the average person, the working people. They're the ones 202 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:20.399 who are really going to take it, take the brunt 203 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:25.240 of this, this this folly, nothing, nothing more than that. 204 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:26.519 Back on Nightside after. 205 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.919 This, Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window 206 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:33.440 World night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 207 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:39.720 All right, we're talking about congestion pricing in New York City. 208 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:44.240 It's going to come to Boston, so be prepared. Let 209 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:46.399 me by the way, I just want to play a 210 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.320 little bit. This is Governor Hokel I said the other night, 211 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:53.200 has to be like the dumbest governor in America. But 212 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.799 she's trying to tell people it's going to cost the 213 00:12:55.879 --> 00:13:00.000 average driver of an automobile nine dollars. Trucks will be more, 214 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.480 or SUVs, I think will be more. So this is 215 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.759 cut number thirty two, Rob. This is where she explains 216 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:10.759 how that charging you nine dollars a day to go 217 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.320 into New York City is actually going to save you 218 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:14.919 fifteen hundred dollars a year. 219 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:19.120 And I'm proud to announce we have found a path 220 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:26.039 to find the MTA reduce congestion and keep millions of 221 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:30.320 dollars in the pockets of our commuters. Under this plan, 222 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.399 the MTA will can implement a congestion pricing plan with 223 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.919 a reduced daytime toll of nine dollars beginning in January. 224 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:45.279 You heard that correctly. It was fifteen dollars before and 225 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:46.519 now it is nine dollars. 226 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:53.519 That is a forty percent reduction. This lower toll will 227 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:59.440 save daily commuters nearly fifteen hundred dollars annually, and that 228 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.559 kind of makes a big difference for our families. 229 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:09.279 How stupid does she think the average New Yorker is 230 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.200 And if you're a New Yorker, how stupid. We were 231 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.559 gonna charge you fifteen a day, so now we're only 232 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:19.480 going to charge you nine. So you get a savings 233 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:23.159 there of forty percent. You're still out nine dollars a day, 234 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.360 but we're saving you fifteen hundred dollars a year. That 235 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:31.080 is just I mean, you talk about and when you 236 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.200 she has to be the most arrogant as well as 237 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:38.559 the dumbest governed in America. Six one, seven, nine, three, one, 238 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.519 ten thirty. That's the only line is open. Let me 239 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.600 go to Phil in Boston. I'll bet you Phil is 240 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:44.480 a little frustrated like myself. 241 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.080 Then in this play, this is crazy. You mentioned that governor. 242 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:55.360 She may sound like we're paying fifty. They're paying fifteen 243 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:59.320 dollars already, so we're saving you six dollars and who's 244 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:01.960 gonna pay? Hey, how are they gonna pay it? I'm 245 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.559 so much gonna be coming off your little chess bitty 246 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:05.480 having a windshield. 247 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:09.600 Well, no, there's two ways. Here's how they're gonna get it. No, 248 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:13.480 two ways. One, if you are an easy pass person 249 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:17.360 and whatever they call the different states, it will just 250 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.440 click on to your monthly bill. But let's assume that 251 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.120 you're smart and you don't have an easy pass. You 252 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.600 got a license plate, they'll take a picture of your 253 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:29.440 license plate. They have all these they've spent millions of 254 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.679 dollars to put up all of these cameras, and you 255 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.720 know they've they could care less. But yeah, you know 256 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.399 it's jim. I'm I'm gonna stick you up with a 257 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.440 gun when I see you on the street, and I'm 258 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.360 gonna say, give me your wallet, and I'm gonna say, oh, 259 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.559 you got two hundred dollars in your wallet. Okay, I'm 260 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.519 gonna take one hundred and fifty dollars out of your wallet. Here, 261 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.879 you can keep fifty. So I've saved you by robbing you. 262 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.159 I've saved you one hundred and fifty dollars because it 263 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:57.320 could have been two hundred. 264 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:01.559 Don't give any ideas. Then what happens if you have 265 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.960 to go in town and you pbably don't have the 266 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.559 answer to this, who does who? When you have to 267 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.559 go in towns that pick up someone in the city 268 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:11.639 hall would have pay a bill, then you have to 269 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:13.919 grow the new back end and pick up your daughter 270 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:15.759 or someone's friend, whatever, and. 271 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:17.879 Every every every time you go in. 272 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.159 I can't even get my tax bill in the mill 273 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.559 because either it's gonna this is And you mentioned a 274 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.240 bike lane for bikes, and you mentioned a billion dollars 275 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.039 I have seen. The only things I see in the 276 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.960 bike lane is one gentleman with a little thing he 277 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.600 made up with a baby in the back that I 278 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:41.600 think it's crazy. And the rest of unicycles, uh mopens 279 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.639 and no helmets on. No, no, how are they gonna 280 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.960 get the plate? How is this? This is this? You're right, 281 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.320 they're trying to get us. They don't want to have 282 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:53.399 us all walking along with turkeys, and no one will 283 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:54.360 be able to drive. 284 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:58.120 Yeah, well that's the only people who will be able 285 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:01.320 to drive will be the uber wealthy who for them 286 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.840 nine dollars a day is like a. 287 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.480 Nickel right off or whatever. 288 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.279 But I'll tell you, you keep electing the same politicians, 289 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.319 you're gonna get the same result. What do they say 290 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:19.279 if it's insanity? When you're doing the same thing over 291 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.279 and over again and you think to yourself that somehow 292 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:24.799 I'm going to get a different result. You know, you 293 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:27.680 beat your head against the wall, you have a headache, 294 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:29.839 You get up the next day, you beat yourself against 295 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:32.240 the wall, you have a headache. Keep going doing it 296 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.240 every day until you stop beating your head against the wall, 297 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:37.000 You're always gonna get headaches. 298 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.720 Let me get this bully's bills? How can people survive 299 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.640 the tax? Bull of this and that the pizza coffee 300 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.240 is for? I mean it's crazy. I mean they keep 301 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.559 piling and olliver. They know we can pay. I think 302 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:53.839 we should go on Swike and don't no one drive 303 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.920 their car in a Boston within reason, you know, I mean, 304 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:57.920 is this crazy? 305 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:02.559 They do not care? Uh, they do not care because 306 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.559 they think you're stupid. They think that you don't vote, 307 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:09.920 and they think that that people overall will just return them. 308 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:14.640 I've said, I've told you before. You go to the diner, 309 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.559 whether you're in Boston somewhere or you're in a suburb. 310 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.200 And every once in a while you're there and the 311 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.920 state rep comes by and pat you in the back. 312 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:25.759 He doesn't know you did. He gives you the big hey, 313 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:29.319 how you doing great to see you? Remember me? Come 314 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:34.119 to Alexandine Representative Smugsborg. Thank you very much? Now house 315 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:37.920 wife and kids? Oh you're not married. I'm sorry, I'm talking. 316 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:39.559 They think we're idiots. 317 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:48.000 And thanks. I'm glad we agree on this, and then 318 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.319 maybe this might get the word out. It's it's got 319 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.319 a it's got the stop. Sweet. Oh you coun't even 320 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:57.200 get so much lemonade. I'm a lemon man. 321 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.240 They could kill us. They could kill us. They they 322 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.240 will soak you until you're dead, okay, and they'll even 323 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.359 soak you after your dead. It's as simple as that, 324 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.440 because they got to keep the revenue coming in so 325 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.960 they can put their their their stupid brothers in law 326 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:17.440 on the payroll. What's going on? Thanks? Phil, talks talk soon. 327 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:18.519 You have a great one. 328 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:19.160 Thank you. 329 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:22.519 Love your passion, man, love your passion. Coming back on Nightside, 330 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:25.440 I got Melissa and Oregon coming up, got Robert, Michael 331 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.880 and Maureen and I got room for you only line 332 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:34.279 open six one thirty. Will be right back on nightside. 333 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:39.599 You're on night Side with Ray on Boston's news Radio. 334 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:42.039 Back to the phones. You're are going to go to 335 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:46.519 Melissa out in Oregon. Hey, Melissa, welcome. How many bike 336 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:48.920 lanes you got out there? Oh? 337 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.680 Too many to count? Give a lot. And it's. 338 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:56.240 And I'm a baker, you're important. 339 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:00.160 Yeah, yeah, I actually live pretty close to the on 340 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:06.240 Town and there are these lanes that you stop a 341 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:10.319 little bit. All right, It's just it's I still can't 342 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:13.440 figure them out. So it's and I'm a biker and 343 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:17.039 I can't figure them out. And but my question to 344 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:19.759 you on the New York thing, and I've looked this up, 345 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:21.680 but I haven't been able to figure out an answer. 346 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:26.880 It sounded like the governor of New York said they 347 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:31.559 reduced it from fifteen. So was it already implemented au. 348 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:37.000 No, no, no, no, no. They started oh yeah, oh yeah. 349 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:39.759 It was like, uh, well we're going to have this, 350 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.200 and they had some sort of a committee to come 351 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:45.079 up and said it we'll be fifteen dollars. Uh. And 352 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.519 so at that point the politician, the governor step say says, no, 353 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:50.759 I don't think it should be fifteen. Let's make it nine. 354 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.559 We're saving everybody six dollars. You were not saving anybody anything. 355 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:56.000 You're charging him nine dollars. 356 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:02.759 It's exactly then the impact to live drivers, uber drivers's 357 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:08.119 going straight to the customer. And I'm curious how cabs, 358 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.599 you know, will they just stay within a certain zone, 359 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:14.839 because otherwise they're not going to want to leave the zone. 360 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.119 And then have to come back in and pay nine dollars. 361 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:21.680 Well, what it is, it's it's just anything south of 362 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:26.000 Central Park six sixtieth Street, So south of Central Park 363 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:32.480 all the way down you know, to to Soho and 364 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:38.720 Battery March or whatever. Yeah, so that's the place. I 365 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.359 just think what it's going to do anybody. First of all, look, 366 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:44.039 if you're uber wealthy and you can fly into New 367 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.960 York and you know, take a h an uber or 368 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:52.599 a limo and and you don't care what the cost is, great, great, 369 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.720 good luck. But if you're somebody from Boston who wanted 370 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.160 to drive down to the city, Boston's it's like four 371 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:01.400 hour drive from here. You're gonna drive down in the 372 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:03.799 city and pay one hundred dollars a night to park 373 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:06.599 your car, Pay five hundred dollars a night for some 374 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:09.440 fleabag hotel in New York City. I mean, give me 375 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:09.880 a break. 376 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:13.559 Just mentioned you might not have a restaurant, sorry enough, 377 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:16.359 you might not have a restaurant to go to, because 378 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.839 that's going to be passed on to restaurants every time 379 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:21.799 they get a delivery to their location. So they may 380 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:23.680 not have any place to visit. They might have money 381 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:26.480 to go there. They might not have anything to visit, 382 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:28.200 and they might not have workers. 383 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:30.680 And what they're saying is that the money will help 384 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:35.400 the the what they call the MTA, the Metro Transit 385 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:38.920 Authority or whatever is in New York. So yeah, take 386 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:42.720 the subway in New York, but watch your back because 387 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:44.480 someone might try to push you in front of an 388 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:48.640 oncoming train. And whatever you do, don't fall asleep because 389 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:49.960 someone might light you on fire. 390 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:55.160 So and you know, so is your life worth nine dollars? 391 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:58.720 I mean, it's just it makes no sense. And you know, 392 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.359 one of the things that we have a very nice 393 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.359 metro system here, it's called TriMet and it's that they 394 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:09.319 do an excellent job with it and it does run 395 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:12.559 on time and all those and the buses are good here. 396 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:17.079 But I don't know that trains and buses and bike 397 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:22.319 lanes solve all problems. And it feels like the urban 398 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.680 planning folks they're focused on, I don't know what the 399 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:29.160 right way to say it is that they're they're just 400 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:34.559 missing the bigger picture and the costs are just killing people. 401 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:37.599