You can't move all of the freight that the city needs by rail.
Enjoy paying more for everything you buy.
And all this does is move more traffic to the outer boroughs (city leadership even acknowledges this will be a side effect).
And all this does is move more traffic to the outer boroughs (city leadership even acknowledges this will be a side effect).
Suppose you drive that into NYC in a very small van, say a Ford Transit. A quick google tells me that has a cargo capacity of 10 cubic meters. The $15 toll amortized over 370 packages would add an additional cost of 4c per package.
This is the most extreme case I could think of off the top of my head. I believe most deliveries use vans with a much larger cargo capacity than a Transit.
Still very acceptable for cargo.
There are about 125K truck crossings into Manhattan per day. In a NYC pilot program with receiving companies, carriers, and truck drivers; some participants implementing the off-hour policy at a number of their locations and it went fairly well.
It's a USD$115.00 ticket for double parking and delivery trucks do so even when there's space for them to park legally, lest they get blocked in by another truck -- it's just the cost of doing business.
And it's disgusting. Streets which should have four lanes of traffic are reduced to one or two lanes with all the double-parked trucks. Those fines should be $1000+ and entering into Manhattan from anywhere in a car should be at least $100. Sadly, no one asked me. And more's the pity.
> Those tolls will be discounted by 75 percent at night,
which is when most truck deliveries are made
I would bet the value in time saved to a freight delivery business to be stuck in less traffic (composed primarily of passenger cars!) is well worth more than the toll paid
That's simply not true.
Also congestion based pricing strategies have never reduced traffic anywhere they've been implemented. Go ask London.
this is so fragrantly incorrect I don't even know how to respond
they absolutely have, including in London
please engage with some of the published research instead of just guessing
really?
Wrong.
Source: I am a transport engineer. In London.
Also London's public transit infrastructure is lightyears better than NYC's and way better managed. This whole pricing scheme is just to shore up the MTA which is massively wasteful with money and never gets any of its projects done on time (by decades).
b) The INRIX scorecard is citywide. Assuming that they went with the conventional definition of "London", ie. whatever lies inside M25, this is an area of 1579 km2. The Congestion charge zone has an area of 21 km2, which is about 1.3% of the total.