NYC's Congestion Pricing Has Caused 'Quality-of-Life Improvement' in Just Six Months

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NYC's Congestion Pricing Has Caused 'Quality-of-Life Improvement' in Just Six Months | Common Dreams

After six months, the policy of tolling drivers has reduced traffic and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the city's transit system. But the Trump administration is still trying to shut it down.

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32% year over year decline in traffic fatalities. That is just absolutely huge and frankly rather shocking.
It is almost like good policies, even ones that involve tolls, work. The country needs to censor and defund the White House and move on. I really can't take listening to this ass clown anymore.
I admit I was skeptical of this tax and now I do feel it works much better than I expected.
- That's pretty much the way it goes everywhere congestion pricing is implemented. Resistance right up until implementation, then people immediately see the benefit and love it. The fact is that less cars equaybetter cities
Now do that to the Van Wyck.
Screw you, Trump.
Less cars means less money to car maker CEOs.
How about cars on various higher roads like Main st. 25th level????
Car elevators would be a thing!
It's a terribly regressive tax but I guess some of them are cool now because reasons.
- Taxing the wealthy in their expensive, personal conveyances to fund the MTA that the poor people ride is regressive? Is this one of those situations like with the word literally, where "regressive" now means the opposite?
  
  So poor people pay an even more disproportionate amount of their income to use a car, for many of whom it is a necessity. The rich get less traffic, the poor just have to take whatever crumbs they can afford.
- Car-brain hot take
  
  Is it really a hot take if it's such a car brain cliché? Stale af take

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