Knowing the democrats, it’s probably a backdoor into greater government control over people’s lives and a loss of freedom for America.

We already have traffic control in Pittsburgh, it’s called synchronized signals: if you drive the speed limit, then you can catch a lot of lights while green. My advice for NYers: move. If you have friends there, then you can make friends elsewhere, and won’t have to fight the traffic, the congestion, the cabs, and the high prices. For what some people pay PER MONTH for a parking space in Manhattan, you can buy a nice brick house in Pittsburgh, plus we have 3 major sports teams, and except for Roethlisberger, they are great people.

You do understand that this is how all Artificial Intelligence systems start taking over the world of man.

Read your Science Fiction – People.

The Federal Government is picking up $600,000 of the $1.6 million

NO!!!!!

The TAX Payers are picking up all of the tab!

Make no mistake! This is a REVENUE System, Not a traffic congestion system.
Tickets will be produced by Geeks in the Office, instead of Officers on the beat.

Thirty years ago the New York Times did a survey on the behavior of people who lived in the ‘Upper East Side’ in New York. Analysis revealed that 80%.of residents were considered crertifiably neurotic while the remainder ranged from delusional to outright psychotic. The Times conclusions of this survey were quashed within a day(.It’s in the Times records….look it up). As well as the French tourist map at that time warning its travelers to keep within the ‘safe’ zones (ie midtown Manhattan) .
The technology plan freaks are simply fulfilling the prophecies.

One more reason why I will never step foot again in your slime ball, over-priced, low-life city Bloomberg. I hope you all go bankrupt while you’re so busy decimating the constitution.

one way to keep traffic moving is to have on all busy intersections squads of bums wiping your windows with kitchen grease……get out of my way !!!!!!!!!

Another money pit.

You know, they had this exact same technology when cars were first invented. They were called Traffic Cops. I guess paying 52 cops or ‘technicians’ to work each intersection might cost more, depends how many of these ‘watchers’ they hire on top of the over-all cost of the system. Still, I doubt pushing buttons to change the colors will speed things along, especially now we open it up to human error on two fronts. The light and the driver. Super.

Billionaireberg said the same thing about City Time. 600 million down the toilet later he still won’t give it up til now. Maybe if he’d stop putting in unused bike and mall for the homeless to sleep in traffic wouldn’t be so bad. Notice how against closing the roads in Central Park he is. Why,because it will cause traffic on his block and miss up his life.

Janette Sadik Kahn should really move to Copenhagen and enjoy all the pedestrian zones, bicycles and free drugs.

Tolls on the East River bridges and congestion pricing is the only real answer to the midtown traffic problem. As this will probably never happen, New Yorkers can look forward to endless traffic jams forever. I lived in New York for over 50 years and where I am now if there are 10 cars on the road it is a lot.

They want to make it so only the rich can drive. Enjoy your freedom while you still can. In a decade a TSA worker will be groping you when you go to pick up your kid at PS121.

The only thing I know is these surveillance cameras violate our 4th Amendment rights to be secure as people from unreasonable searches. All this surveillance according to the U.S. Constitution should be against the law. It’s a shame that our government is no longer one that has any regard for laws limiting what it can and cannot do.

To put a stop to this Orwellian nightmare, please support Ron Paul and his run for President in 2012! Register Republican to vote for Ron Paul in the 2012 primary election.

I’m a 67 year old electrical engineer. I have thought for over 50 years that this was an excellent idea. Timed/synchronized traffic lights have been around for many years and work well to keep traffic moving at a steady pace. I have always been at a loss to figure out why traffic “engineers” couldn’t come up with a clue as to how they might control a traffic light so that it doesn’t stay red (against you) at some intersection when there is NO TRAFFIC moving on the green ! Most of the posters here seem so brain dead that they could never even START to understand this concept, but apparently someone in NYC has ! Good job guys !

EZ Pass readers really? That can only mean phase two of the plan is a $5-10 toll to enter midtown during the day al la london. Mark my words, they are going to use it as just another way to lift a few more dollars out of your pockets.

I’m honestly suprised the air in NYC doesn’t have a toll on it. I will never live there.

Or they could of refunded all the money they wasted to the tax payers and simply drove themselves or asked someone who did where the problems are. . .
There is X demand for X resource at X time of the day – it is, what it is, simple as that, its either enough or its not, if you think you can manage that sitting on your duff watching it on TV your a fool.
Want less traffic jams in the future? Vote four more years and there will be no jobs for anyone to commute too! Then gun up ’cause your going to be raided if anyone thinks you might have food.

“The federal government is picking up more than a third of the $1.6 million price tag.”

Nice to have such borrowed money to THROW AWAY. My God, I want out of here.

Why does the federal government have to pick up a third of the cost? Can’t New Yorkers pay for their own traffic system? This is the problem with the American economy.

another hairbrained scam by that bike lover Janette Sadik Kahn, sound more like another city time deal,God help New york

They want less congestion? Than stop sell those taxi medallions. Most of the congestion in Manhattan is caused by the massive amount of taxis on the road. Why should all those “environmentally friendly” NYers ride gas guzzling taxis anyway (BLOOMBERG)? NYC has an extensive subway and bus system. You two faced hypocrites.

I see another City Time scandel in the works.

ok, ok: If traffic is at a standstill, what difference does it make if you change the light?

“I could have sworn that I had the light?

Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik Kahn says when traffic is at a standstill, lights can be changed at the press of a button at the city’s Traffic Management Center.

“I’ll show THEM who’s a NERD….” ‘CLICK’ (button pressed)….honk, honk, smash!
Hey Ma.., look at me…I’m directin traffic! I told you they shouldda picked me as ‘Homecoming Queen’ ‘CLICK’ honk honk, smash!