US approves plan to impose $9 Manhattan congestion fee

reuters.com

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Related (the indefinite pause) The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing (171 points, 5 months ago, 365 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40817079

This looks good on theory, but as with many government plans, this is another tax.

It would be great if they can use this congestion fee to improve public transportation. Will it happen? Nope.

Even just reducing traffic, noise and pollution is a pro.

You can't reduce the demand for going to work or shopping for groceries. Arguably the real problem is we've put too much in too small a space.

No, but it does help incentivize people to do those things using transit, or at non-rush hours and gives less traffic to everyone else.

It doesn't work if there aren't alternatives, of course. But NY and London do have them.

I can not imagine there is a statistically relevant number of people that travel to Manhattan to specifically to grocery shop.

NYC has the best public transit in the country, and they spend a lot on it. It's one of the few places in North America where congestion pricing could even work.

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