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Originally Posted by chris08876
The fight over exemptions will determine the fate of NYC’s congestion pricing
Congestion pricing, after all, has been promised as the silver bullet that will fix the subway and free Manhattan from the endless sea of cars that clog streets, crowding out pedestrians and polluting our air.
Advocates fighting for a traffic pricing plan have promised the world. A fee for cars entering Manhattan will clear the borough of crippling congestion while guaranteeing funding for Andy Byford’s comprehensive Fast Forward plan to fix New York City’s subways and buses. The dollars will unlock billions in capital spending, and limiting traffic will clear up the city’s air
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https://ny.curbed.com/2019/4/8/18299...lan-exemptions
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It doesn't work that way. Congestion pricing can't raise billions and rid the city of cars at the same time. No more than cigarette taxes can fund healthcare while also ending smoking.
Behavior will quickly fall to one side or the other. Either the city will be full of the cars of the wealthy who continue to drive because they can. The wealthy will probably drive more as their trip times improve. Everyone else is priced out and you get inequality protests.
Or everyone abandons their cars and there's no new revenue.