DoT Terminates Tolling Approval for New York City's Cordon Pricing Program

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10 pointsimpish92084 comments

Sounds like revenge / threat / attack re Adams.

This is about flipping NJ. People there are pissed and this will only add to R gains there.

NJ has 10M residents, of which ~500k work in NYC, and at most 2% of those would pay the congestion charge based on their pre-charge commute. Even if every one of those people previously voted D and went hard R plus convinced five of their non-driving friends to do the same, that's 50k flipped votes which is utterly irrelevant.

The better political option is to increase the 2-axle congestion charge to $25 (London's £15 adjusted by PPP using national numbers, so extremely conservative) and spend half of it on transit in the commuter's origin location.

> Finally, it impedes the flow of commerce into New York by increasing costs for trucks, which in turn could make goods more expensive for consumers

This is plainly absurd. Non-articulated trucks pay a toll of $14, larger trucks $21.

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