Update: Perry Klaussen Fuhrer-Mason is losing control of his readership; will he moderate or delete this comment or user altogether? Stay tuned. Possible banning imminent!
Here is a post by Easy-E on Hoboken 411 that contradicts Das Klaussen's attempt to slam the whole Hertz corner Car Initiative. Will this poor user get banned for putting up a post in defiance of Das Klaussen?
11. Easy-E July 1st, 2010
"Here’s a fact that no one has bothered to post. Zipcars used to be parked on the street when they first came to Hoboken. Where was the outrage?
As someone who is about to get rid of his car, I am glad to have them. Zipcar isn’t the perfect service and I am very happy that there is more than one to choose from, competition is good for the consumer.
Maybe you can’t quantify exactly how many cars it will take off the streets but I really think some of you are just being willfully ignorant. If you can have easy access to a car for short trips, people will consider getting rid of their own car or even be enough of a reason to not bring one here if they move to Hoboken, or buy one if they don’t already have one.
I wouldn’t be selling my car if there weren’t Zipcar, Hertz and rentals so close by.
I used to go to Enterprise for weekend trips, Zipcar for anything for the day or if I needed something at an odd hour or for a relatively short trip.
Otherwise I have to waste 45 minutes going through the whole check-in process at a regular rental."
Original Post 7/1/2010: A reader of my site disgusted with the latest and shameless BS line of reasoning coming from the bowels of Hoboken 411, Hoboken's #1 misleading source of news and misplaced anger in town, had a response to this article on that was published on that smear site yesterday. Below is the link to the article:
Hertz Cars Taking away Parking in Hoboken
Quote from cyber-dbagger Perry Klaussen or one of his Masonista anti-Zimmer Jihadist ghost writers: "The general claim is that 15 cars will be “eliminated” per Hertz Car. Do you agree with that? Or do you suggest a different number?"
Here is the reader's response to the leading question:
"I keep seeing this question come up, and it's mentioned by someone on 411, so here it is. The statistic about cars being taken off the road was not fabricated out of thin air. It is based on real-world numbers.
You can read the very detailed report by Philly Car Share (Philly Care Share Impact Study) which found that 15.3 people gave up their car for each of their 300 vehicles -- taking 4,600 cars off the road. That actually happened.
It is not at all unreasonable to expect the same to happen here. In fact, that number is somewhat conservative. In Hoboken, Zip Car found that their ratio is better than Philly's: 1 to 17.6. I count about 40 ZipCar vehicles on their website, so by that math, Zip Car has taken more than 700 cars off the streets. In other words, if Zip Car were to disappear tomorrow (and there were no similar alternative), you can expect to see 700 more cars on the road in the not too distant future because the people using Zip Car will find that they need another way to get around. If you believe that, then you have to believe the opposite....that these programs take hundreds and thousands of cars off the road."
The Boken Online also has a story on this:
Hoboken 411 Misleads Readers on Hertz Corner Cars
My comment: There is no guarantee of how many cars will be off the road in Hoboken but if the zip car program and other data sets from other cities holds up, this program will help alleviate some and only some of the parking issues. On this it would seem the Zimmer Administration has indeed done their homework. The program is not set in stone and has the flexibility to expand or contract based on demand.
Christ, the sh*t that is passed as news or commentary over at Hoboken 411 is probably why the comments look so bad on that site lately compared to peak in 2008:
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Update: Hoboken411 poster responds to More BS from Hoboken 411 on Hertz Direct Program
PARKING ADVISORY FOR JULY 4
