Told of the mayor’s morning routine, he added, “Most people don’t have chauffeurs.”

But in NYC an awful lot of folks do have chauffeurs, and they cause terrible traffic problems, and continue to park, wherever they want, engines running while drivers wait for their riders. Their sense of entitlement knows no bounds.

It is an enormous problem in NYC and sorry, Bloomberg, you get no karma points for your short bursts of enthusiasm for "mass" transit.

Just another hypocrite - we have them at our city hall too.

Figures.

Saddest of all there is, IIRC, an express stop on the Lexington Avenue IRT line at 86th. Five blocks north of his house. No need to run those two SUVs all of 20 blocks to 59th and Lex.

Yeah, I know, I'm picking too many nits and missing he ig picture.

Kinda like John Edwards talking about 2 America's while he lives in a 11,000 SF home. And Al Gore flying around in private jets talking about global warming.

Not surprising....hell, remember Vera Katz?
She didnt even get her own groceries.

I sense an unfinished quotation here:

Mr. Loeser said the mayor “walked to the subway when he first started as mayor, and he stopped doing it when cameras staked out his house every morning and walked with him.”

Informed that reporters never noticed any photographers milling outside of the mayor’s town house over the past five weeks, Mr. Loeser replied, “So you’re saying the solution worked [...]”

"... or at least it did until you a%%#*les showed up."

Kinda like John Edwards talking about 2 America's while he lives in a 11,000 SF home. And Al Gore flying around in private jets talking about global warming.

Easy now, they are rich. They get to buy themselves out of global warming guilt with carbon credits.

remember Vera Katz? She didnt even get her own groceries.

Jon, Jon. You could find Vera regularly in the Thriftway on NW Glisan, doing her own shopping (back when there was a Thriftway there).

Obviously the guy is a total hypocrite because the S.U.V.'s probably continue on down to City Hall after he gets on the subway anyhow. It insults the intelligence of his constituants to do something that is purely intended as political theater and does nothing to actually help the environment or ease traffic congestion. He's a busy man on a tight schedule, so I can understand the desire to shave time off the commute. It's the sneakiness of it all that leaves a bad taste. What a phony!

I think it's a bit silly, but am not sure I would judge it quite so harshly without knowing what the mayor does while on the subway. If it's a real opportunity for contact with regular people, that's one thing. If his security people clear a subway car so he can ride just with them, and concentrate on the Times crossword puzzle, that's something else again. Of course it's symbolic, if only because he has a choice to do it or not. But by choosing to do it he raises the profile of the subway as a safe and effective means of transit. To call it hypocritical requires that you impute motives to him that he doesn't necessarily have.

You could find Vera regularly in the Thriftway on NW Glisan, doing her own shopping

Ok, fine. I guess I meant HOW she got there. She had a chauffeur. Sometimes just a PPB squad car.