Short explanation
So this is Queens, New York City
In this borough, there is a park called Forest Park next to a neighborhood called Richmond Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Park_(Queens)
Last year, angry drivers signed a petition urging the city to allow them to drive through Forest Park.
Eric Adams, the Mayor, accepted their request:
That made some Richmond Hill residents angry.
So local families started demonstrating next to the park. They want the new mayor - Zohran Mamdani - to ban cars from Forest park.
Joann Ariola is a Republican member of New York City council
https://council.nyc.gov/district-32/
She personally wrote a letter to Mayor Eric Adams begging him to allow cars to go through Forest Park:
During the demonstration, she crossed the park in an SUV and showed up to mock demonstrators.
How does anyone rack up 38 tickets? I got a parking ticket on a visit to NYC, and when I came back a year later, my car got booted, and then towed. It was a major pain int the ass to go to the courthouse, only to be told I needed the registration, so I had to go to the tow yard, and get the registration from the glove compartment, then go back to the courthouse to pay all the fines and towing and storage costs, and then go back to the tow yard for my car. For ONE parking ticket.
She’s got 38 tickets, and is still driving her car? Politicians should NEVER get away with this shit.
which has racked up 38 speeding and red light tickets since 2017
That’s 4.2 tickets every single year.
First of all, how is running a red light just a ticket?
Second of all, why has her licence not been revoked with that many tickets?
America is a weird fucking country.
Some people have this huge fascination to drive their cars in parks and on beaches, I have never understood it. Cars are nice but they don’t need to be everywhere. I’m guessing there is a correlation with MAGA.
guessing there is a correlation with MAGA.
Stupid, selfish, people.
Why would they not surround and harass this bitch and her car? Do you even know how to protest bro?!
Caltrops are cheap and easy to make.
People like Joann are too comfortable being their worst selves, they don’t deserve to be in office or in any position of power.
The crowd: “WE’RE WALKIN’ HERE!”
They always forget that others deserve to have places without cars. Seriously why do they need to drive through a park. It’s a park.
It’s a shortcut to heavier traffic!
Appointed by the people to serve the interests of the people.
Or not.
Everyone needs to get polarizing filters for their cameras so we can see into the car windows of assholes.
If you take a look at the map, Freedom Drive is not even that useful. At best it is a minor shortcut if you’re coming from Myrtle Ave and need to go south, but don’t want to take Woodhaven Blvd. i guess?
I’d bet a dollar it saves one traffic light and I’d bet a second dollar she lives within a quarter mile of the south end of the road. Opened for the relief of the most minor of conveniences.
I assume the politician who started it lives on one side of it and wants it for personal convenience.
It’s okay, she’s already failed as a person
