7 reasons why driving has never been worse on Staten Island | Opinion |
There’s one thing that the vast majority of Staten Islanders can likely agree on: driving here is hell on earth.
And you may have some deluded notion that things will get better someday.
Let me break it to you: they won’t.
In fact, it’s only going to get exponentially worse.
Think of that: no matter how old you are, you’ve likely already lived through your own personal golden age of driving on Staten Island.
It all gonna be downhill from here.
Here’s why:
Getting stuff delivered to your doorstep sure is convenient. But those packages don’t just drop out of the sky. At least not yet.
No, we need trucks, vans and personal cars to bring all that good stuff to our homes. That’s making the roads more and more clogged.
That goes for all the supermarket deliveries and increasing takeout orders too. And we’re only becoming a more closed-in, stay-at-home society.
So, yeah, it’s all our own faults. And, yeah, it’s going to get worse.
People simply don’t realize how much it slows them down when they’re looking........