Mayor Moron, Please stop the madness

I had the lovely opportunity to see that skunk, Mayor Bloomberg's, city up close this morning and I feel that it is a microcosm of what is wrong with New York City.

I was driving west on 38th Street attempting to cross 3rd Avenue. The traffic was backed up from Lexington, causing spillback into 3rd. There were four cops (or faux cops, I'm not sure) standing on the southwest corner. Just waiting for some hapless rube to venture across under the mistaken theory that traffic actually moves in New York City. When they get stuck in the intersection, these bastions of law and order stroll over to the car and give them a $115 ticket for blocking the box.

Now I have a bunch of issues with this. First of all, the fact that a traffic agent has the authority to issue what used to be a moving violation is rife with the ability for fraud in that the brownies can just write down plate numbers and issue phantom tickets, something that isn't really that far-fetched given the caliber of these city employees ( and past history).

But what really annoys me is that if even one of these idiots had gone one block to direct traffic, there wouldn't be a spillback issue. But that is not the goal of Napoleon Mike. His goal is to squeeze as much money out of every already suffering New Yorker, and g-d forbid a tourist should be silly enough to think that he can drive or park in midtown Manhattan!

Everyone in the City is crying that the tourists aren't coming, and they are losing millions in tax revenue, but what do they expect, when they make being in the City inhospitable, inconvenient and expensive beyond belief.


Sometimes I'm glad to be a suburbanite