Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s pie in the sky plan to ease traffic in New York City is dead and buried…for now:

THE New York State assembly has used delaying tactics to defy New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attempt to introduce congestion pricing in the city.

Without a final plan in place by yesterday, New York has blown a chance to receive as much as $500m in federal funds to help implement Bloomberg’s plan.

The plan would charge passenger cars $8 a day and commercial vehicles $21 a day for the right to drive in Manhattan below 86th Street.

The problem here is that most people who drive in Manhattan do all they can to avoid public transportation. This is because most of the NYC subway stations smell like earwax, urine, and Friday night’s vomit. Like my bedroom. Additionally, the idea of packing a few extra thousand people per day on the A train, for instance, is simply not feasible. The A train during rush hour is a sardine can that reeks of rancid hooker genitalia and man butt(again, like my bedroom). Forcing thousands more on all the other midtown train lines will only penalize those of us who actually do the right thing by riding the subway…something I’m guessing Bloomberg hasn’t done(outside of publicity stunts) in over 30 years.

Bloomberg….more like blueballs