Working-class families like mine, raising children in Manhattan's overdeveloped Lenox Hill in the East 60s, have for decades been trying to stave off encroachments on our quality of life.
Though it's barely mentioned in the MTA's official environmental assessment, common sense and life experience suggest our local streets will be overrun with cars circling our blocks for impossible-to-find parking and slammed with unprecedented traffic backups.
When I called state Sen. Liz Krueger's office to find out what mitigation plans were in place to meet this expected increase in traffic in our neighborhood, I was told no mitigation measures, none at all, were being considered for Manhattan.
Our area just north of the dividing line is apparently not worthy of such consideration, although the impact on us will inevitably be immense.
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