New York Congestion Pricing

[Dogtrousers]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html

I should have known about this, but I didn't.

Seems NYC has had a congestion charge for a short while and it seems to have been successful so far.

Of course, opposition to these things (like 20 limits, Ulez, London C-zone and LTNs) tends to be ideological rather than evidence/results based, and definitely isn't local. So it faces attempts to reverse it coming from the federal government.

Best of luck to them.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What about my fundamental rights, you punk?

 

[Dogtrousers]

I lived in Manhattan for a couple of years ('86, '87)

Hardly anyone I knew drove a car in Manhattan. Plenty of people lived out in the other boroughs and owned cars, but it was very like London - why would you bring your car to somewhere with terrible parking and awful traffic when there is a good mass transit system?

Cycling was in the same category as rollerblading. For suicidal nutcases only.

 

[MontyVeda]

There's no point driving a car in NY... unless you're a taxi driver or a big fan of traffic jams