could * PISS OFF NYC any more than he already has?

[nostamj]

this BS alert is costing the city a fortune and totally screwing up traffic. and, of course, there's no END in sight because the alert is bogus.... there's NO WAY they can keep this up and THEN put up with the RNC insanity...

<snip>

Mr. Baronette, a laborer, was caught in a huge traffic jam caused by police checks of each truck and van crossing the Manhattan Bridge, one very visible component of the city's tightened security operations, the most stringent undertaken since the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.

"Getting there late means a longer workday," Mr. Baronette said. "More work, less money. In this city, time is money. Everybody wants you to be on time. I guess this is O.K. because it is to keep everybody safe, but it sure slows things down."

Prompted by warnings from Washington that Al Qaeda might try to strike New York's financial heart again, more-visible security measures returned to New York yesterday as the city responded to apparent threats against specific buildings for the first time. Along with the police checks at the Manhattan Bridge, trucks were banned from the Williamsburg Bridge, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/nyregion/03impact.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. So what's it like for you? How is it screwing up your own life?

[nostamj]

3. I'm in Brooklyn and don't drive

so, no real impact (though they did suspend some subway service last night...

[JHB]

8. Personally, not much, but for things like construction...

...but for things like construction projects, where they have to get concrete from the factory to the work site within a certain time frame or else it won't cure the way it's planned to, unnecessary extra traffic and route closings can be a very, very, very expensive nuisance. If it's for legitimate reasons, well them's the breaks, but for someone's political machinations.... :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Richardo]

2. What does HE care? He was never going to carry NYC anyway...

It's just a prop, a backdrop for his uber-patriotic campaign.

[progressivebydesign]

4. When they all hear it's stale intelligence, they'll be really pissed. N/T

[k in IA]

5. There was an excellent story on CNN on a truck hauling gravel and the

work site waiting for him. A 40 minute trip took 6 hours. He was supposed to make 6 trips - taking gravel to the site and removing debris from the site on the way back. He took one load of gravel to the site but by that time all the laborers were gone after sitting around doing nothing all day (but the foreman was freaking out because he had to pay them and got nothing done - said they were going to go bankrupt). He couldn't take a load of debris to the dump because it was closed by then.

[nostamj]

7. I saw that...

now, multiply that story and the financial losses by many THOUSANDS of other trucks, delivery vans, etc.

[Warpy]

6. Sure! Wait until their "kiss my feet, I have money" delegates

start to run into a few "tell it like it is" New Yorkers. It is not going to be pretty, and is going to confirm the prejudice closely held in the heartland that NYC is enemy territory. The inconvenience caused by pretending Bush is indispensable is bad enough; the attitudes of the delegates will push it all right over the edge.