Under Mayor de Blasio City Vehicles Rack Up Miles
Wondered why we seem to be adding to the number of Parks Department cars ‘alienating’ parkland in Sara Roosevelt Park! – our second most frequent complaint.
We love your team but the rest of us use public transportation – all hours of the day or night!
Broome
From the NYTimes:
New York City’s sprawling municipal work force is driving more than it used to, city statistics reveal …25% more miles than in 2014…
Hester
There was an uptick in accidents involving city-owned cars driven by City workers “and Parks Department fared no better”.
Hester
on the bright side:
…de Blasio has…unveiled new electric vehicle charging stations that will eventually arrive in each of the five boroughs to encourage New Yorkers to buy zero-emission vehicles.
….the city has doubled the number of electric vehicles in its fleet to 1,500, and nearly 1 in 5 of city vehicles are hybrids, according to statistics provided by City Hall.
Broome
But…
Paul Steely White – executive director of Transportation Alternatives and an ally of Mr. de Blasio:
“Very clearly the more cars and trucks we have on our streets, the worse he’s going to do on achieving those goals,” said o …. “The mayor’s blind spot for the myriad externalities of unchecked driving threatens to undo his good work.”…
Hester
Even so, city vehicles consumed 29.6 million gallons of gasoline in the last fiscal year…”
Charles Komanoff – energy-policy analyst and environmental activist: “There are 3 paths for reducing crashes: design safer streets, stop/prevent dangerous driving and reduce the number of vehicles…the mayor has made improvements on the first, done little on the second and “is stuck in reverse on No. 3″.
Stanton
