NYC Congestion Pricing Delayed Indefinitely by Governor Kathy Hochul

I don't have super strong feelings on congestion pricing, but I'm a bit skeptical of anyone who says working class people are the major car users in NYC.

But all that aside, why aren't we talking about the insantiy that is free street parking. I have to pay $$$ for my small apartment, but your car gets to hang out all day for free? If you live and work in Manhattan, especially the congestion zone, you don't need a car for personal use.

First yes Manhattan needs some kind of residential parking enforcement. Those of us who live in the congestion zone sometimes need cars. While transit into the center of my city is good, getting to places out of the center or out of the city is much tougher. Bloomberg's original proposal was supposed to exempt residents at least for one crossing round trip per day. This governor blinked as this was going to cause a business slowdown in lower Manhattan. Traffic has already diminished over the last ten months. The issue is the MTA is wildly out of control with insane expenditures. Our last governor showed them up when they had this hair-brained plan to close our L train for over a year, he had experts from Europe come and show that the work could be done much cheaper and dramatically faster than MTA's own plan and that work got done cheaper and faster. I'm OK with congestion pricing for improving traffic and pollution I'm not OK with it subsidizing corrupt crony over priced contractor schemes.

Here is a contact form for the Governor's office where you can voice your displeasure at this change:

https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form

“I’m proud to say we’ve stopped congestion pricing in its tracks,” said New York Congressman Pat Ryan

Hard to believe driving into Manhattan is the best option for many people.

Where are those maglevs (or trains) that were going to whisk people into the city at 100mph?

It's an election year. I expect this to return just as bad next summer.

Is it just me or is it incredibly odd and unexpected for a decision like this to come so late in the game? Why wait to delay until after so much time and effort has gone into making it happen?