New York State Budget: Congestion Pricing Coming To Manhattan

[brooklynite]

Source: WCBS-TV

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It has worked in cities like London and Singapore and state lawmakers are hoping congestion pricing will decrease traffic in New York City, too.

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Big Apple subway and buses will soon be getting some much-needed improvements at the expense of drivers heading into Manhattan.

“I think it’s a good idea,” one New Yorker said Sunday. “Every day it’s very, very (bad) traffic, so I think it can be better.”

Motorists entering Midtown Manhattan below 60th Street will be charged a toll, which is anticipated to raise more than $1 billion a year for the city’s ailing public transit system. A panel of experts will set the surcharges by the end of 2020, but sources told CBS2 drivers in cars will pay around $11.50 and truck drivers around $25.

Read more: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/03/31/nys-budget-deal-passes-congestion-pricing/

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Another bone for the rich

[Blues Heron]

3. Funding mass transit is hardly a bone to the rich

the rich rarely ride the bus or subway.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Putting up a paywall to the city so that only those who can afford to can enjoy the priviledge of

Driving in to and around the city in your own vehicle .

[EarthFirst]

2. There's $25 billion for Hudson Yards; yet nary a dime for public transportation?

Methinks that gentrifying neighborhoods for the billionaire investment class is the largest problem NYC is facing...

[ROB-ROX]

5. ROB THE POOR TO FOOL THE PEOPLE

This is just a JOKE. I have been to N.Y. and you could not pay me to be in the concrete jungle. I pray that other can escape the RAT TRAP....

[brooklynite]

11. You won't be missed...

As for "robbing the poor", only about 2% of the City's population drives to work because parking isn't available or is prohibitively expensive.

[Blues Heron]

6. $11.50 is hardly a deal breaker

If you own a car it's really not all that much. There will always be a few whiners until everybody gets used to the new system. The personal car is going the way of the dodo these days which is a good thing. Learn to use some of the other options.

[Polybius]

8. If it's daily it's a lot

I'd also imagine it would dramatically effect cab prices.

[Blues Heron]

10. If you're driving in daily, you might want to rethink that strategy

[Farmer-Rick]

9. $11.50 a day adds up.

That is $230 a month, if you work there 5 days a week.

Yeah, with that kind of surcharge only the rich will be able to drive around in Manhattan. Maybe they should just put up a wall around New York city and only let in squads of migrants in to clean, cook, bus tables and work on construction projects. That would give Traitor Trump a wall and keep cheap, cheap labor cleaning and feeding the facade of the city. The rats would approve.

[brooklynite]

12. "only the rich will be able to drive around in Manhattan"

Yes, if only NYC had a public transit system that ran 24 hours a day and could carry 8 million people...

[Polybius]

7. Hopefully it won't effect the express bus prices

They are $6.50.

[ripcord]

13. They are talking about this for West L.A.

$4 a day, $0.40 a day for residents, not only would they be charging residents for leaving their driveways bit the biggest burden will be on the people who work in the houses, nannies, housekeepers, gardeners and pool maintenance in other words the people who can least afford it.

[Miigwech]

14. When are they going to charge folks for breathing air?

NYC is crazy expensive.