$8 'congestion fee' for Manhattan - congestion for Brooklyn

The ever duplicitous Mayor Bloomberg seems awfully concerned about traffic in Manhattan :

Drivers To Be Charged $8 To Enter Midtown
Bloomberg Ready To Fight Albany For Congestion Fee

Yet, ready, willing and able to pour millions of city money into a plan that would create more congestion for Brooklyn - including building more parking lots - which of course encourages people to drive (and destroying historic properties like the duffield street homes - and using eminent domain to obtain them). Pointing out this double standard isn't just academic - hap-hazard application of such principles could actually mean sky rocketing traffic rates for parts of the city, like, well, Brooklyn - by creating a dis-incentive to drive into manhattan - and an incentive to drive to Brooklyn (readily available parking lots).

Perhaps the Mayor realizes that Ratner's ill conceived boondoggle can't survive without surburban style strip mall parking....which is the more reason to indicate that it's bad for Brooklyn.