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It's actually just a way to fleece people. According to their projections, this will reduce traffic inbound by like 3%. So it's not really gonna reduce cars, just take money out of people's pockets.

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Once the toll system is in place the price can be increased until the traffic is reduced to the desired amount. Standard practice.

It seems mildly incredible to me that a plan which was passed under the guise of reducing traffic wouldn't claim an eventual decrease of more than 3% if they were expecting to get there.

Once the toll system is in place, the city will realise that reduced traffic means reduced toll income and the exercise becomes to find the highest price people will pay without significantly reducing traffic. Standard practice.

> Once the toll system is in place, the city will realise that reduced traffic means reduced toll income and the exercise becomes to find the highest price people will pay without significantly reducing traffic

Why do you presume New York can't do what every other jurisdiction that has deployed congestion pricing has?

Not 3%. The estimate is 17%.

https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/transit/2023/11/30/congestion-...

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