NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
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NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
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Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
#2The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
#3The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
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Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
#4The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
The run up to their implementation was so deeply frustrating. The sheer number of disingenuous objections. And they’ve all been proven false.
Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
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#6What did it do to GDP? (Sincerely asking)
Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
#7The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
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Buses got significantly more reliable as a result of reduced traffic, more ridership on subways allowed for more police presence at stations, reducing crime.
Public transit got better.
Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
#8The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
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> Remember kids: congestion pricing is nothing but a tariff on transportation.
On driving. And it actually makes driving more appealing, there’s much less traffic so you can get where you’re going much quicker.
> Instead of making public transport more appealing through competition
Like having multiple subway systems? NYC did that already.
Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
#9The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
The run up to their implementation was so deeply frustrating. The sheer number of disingenuous objections. And they’ve all been proven false.
> sheer number of disingenuous objections
This is unfair. Nobody wants to pay more for anything. And many of the objections resulted in policy adjustments that made the programme better.
Re: NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The run up to their implementation was so deeply frustrating. The sheer number of disingenuous objections. And they’ve all been proven false.
> sheer number of disingenuous objections This is unfair. Nobody wants to pay more for anything. And many of the objections resulted in policy adjustments that made the programme better.
I didn’t say every objection was disingenuous, just that there was an incredible number of objections that were.