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Congestion Pricing & More

April
2

OK, we know that 73 percent of Assemblywoman Sandra Galef’s constituents — at least of the 1,500 who responded to a survey — favor the congestion pricing plan that would charge $8 for someone in a car to drive into Manhattan’s most congested areas weekdays.

But there’s more. Those who responded also said they would like to see the minimum age for a driver’s license raised to 17 years old, that drivers should be retested when they reach 80 years old and that the government should not sell state “roads, bridges, tunnels or other public infrastructure to the private sector.

Here are more results from the survey, as presented in a press release from Galef…

73% said they would like to see the minimum age for a driver’s license raised to 17 instead of 16.
73% believe drivers should be retested when they become 80 years old.
90% said we should not sell state roads, bridges, tunnels, or other public infrastructures to private sectors.
80% said hospitals and physicians should be required to electronically maintain and make available to patients their vital health care information.
68% said that all employees should not be required to contribute to a fund so they can get paid family leave.
64% believe that a student’s body mass index should not be included on school report cards to inform parents about a potential childhood obesity problem.
60% said plastic grocery bags should be banned from supermarkets and other large stores.
69% said fines should be levied for those who do not recycle.
61% thought candidates should not be prohibited from running on more than one political party line.

The press release continues:

“Respondents also wrote comments on other issues, including the cost of prescription medication, controlling illegal immigration, lowering school taxes, consolidation of local governments, tighter enforcement of cell phone laws while driving, more parking lots at railroad stations, protection of state parks and open land, renewable energy, and unemployment insurance.”

Galef’s 90th Assembly district covers Ossining, Peekskill and Cortlandt in Westchester and Philipstown, Putnam Valley and Kent in Putnam.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm by Ken Valenti.
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2 Responses to “Congestion Pricing & More”

  1. Nice Survey

    Does that mean she will pass bills on all of the issues that were mentioned in this Press Release. Or is she just telling us what we already know. We will be watching.

  2. I do not understand

    who cares what a survey says, is she going to vote for congestion pricing. She should be a leader and fight it like Assemblyman Richard Brodsky who looks out for the people in his district. We should have more leaders like him. He is not afraid to speak his mind. He does not take a poll to see which way he will vote.

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