Live Updates: New York Begins Congestion Pricing Without Hiccups
The tolling program, the first of its kind in the country, will face its first big test with rush hour traffic on Monday morning. The new fees are intended to push more people to use trains and buses, and raise billions of dollars to improve mass transit.
- Are there exemptions, credits or discounts?
\ Low-income drivers can register for a 50 percent discount after the first 10 trips in a month. During peak hours, drivers of passenger vehicles who enter Manhattan via four tunnels that already require tolls — the Lincoln, Holland, Hugh L. Carey and Queens-Midtown — will receive a credit of up to $3 against the daily congestion charge.
Excellent. But I do wish there was an exemption for disabled people on SSDI.
When you’re on 10k income per year, and have no mobility without a car, it basically means you can’t go in/out of manhattan on your own money.
Anybody living off SSDI is almost surely not driving into lower Manhattan to begin with. Parking is like $100/day there.
My understanding is that local disability rights groups favor the charge because it pays for improving access to mass transit, which is what they're already using
Why on earth would you need “live updates” about this?
“Breaking! Car drives into Manhattan and pays $9. And another. And there’s another!”
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