Of course it doesn't matter that congestion pricing was working, as this is part of the broader program of theatrically wrecking shit as part of the broader campaign against any new thing. But it was working incredibly well. - ThreadSky

davidjroth.bsky.social • 84 days ago

Of course it doesn't matter that congestion pricing was working, as this is part of the broader program of theatrically wrecking shit as part of the broader campaign against any new thing. But it was working incredibly well.

Reposted from Streetsblog NYC

BREAKING: The Trump administration, cloaking itself in the mantle of concern for the "working class," has withdrawn federal approval for congestion pricing, cutting funding for billions of dollars in repairs to the NYC region's lifeblood transit system.

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turtal.bsky.social•84 days ago

Maralardo really hates NYC, doesn’t he?

urbfuturistdem.bsky.social•84 days ago

Let's not call it dead yet. There will be lawsuits, the question is I suspect what the status quo frozen by lawsuit will be.

davidjroth.bsky.social•84 days ago

Yeah I don't think they're going to turn it off tonight or anything, I know the MTA is at least saying the right stuff now. I just don't trust the most powerful politicians in the state/region to fight for it at all.

thoreauaway.bsky.social•84 days ago

Why do the Feds even get a say in this?!

fiftysixspecial.bsky.social•84 days ago

"Interstate commerce" is their justification I'd guess

vagabending.bsky.social•84 days ago

The worst part about this is Hochul is going to immediately withdraw her support for her because in her heart she's a coward and then use this as a reason not to remove Adams. The end result of this will be collapse of any trust in the NY democratic party - a party that has barely any trust to lose.

mrmatthewgeorge.bsky.social•84 days ago

the infrastructure president

jak1201.bsky.social•84 days ago

Gridlock Don

typicaliconoclast.bsky.social•84 days ago

Same with the drug legalization in the PNW. Pull the plug *because* it is working. Can’t have progressive policy improving people’s lives!

seandiego.bsky.social•84 days ago

But have you even considered the needs of whichever of Trump’s acquaintances personally called him to complain about this?

mcjibbs.bsky.social•84 days ago

Guaranteed it wasn't even someone important, just some jackass podcaster who didn't like that they have to pay now when they drive in from Long Island.

jak1201.bsky.social•84 days ago

And they probably didn’t pay anyway. Probably have one of those license plate covers that the NYPD love to use on their private cars while they park perpendicular on the sidewalk.

mcjibbs.bsky.social•84 days ago

Or their personal driver, whose company covers dealing with the toll.

leokitty.bsky.social•84 days ago

well good news is they are gonna make themselves sit in more traffic so there will be some amount of suffering

jak1201.bsky.social•84 days ago

Who will though? Trump gets a motorcade and I’m sure his cronies do too.

aprilfoolschild.bsky.social•84 days ago

I'd argue it's becoming quite clear this is, in fact, a "broader campaign of destabilizing and weakening the US."

jak1201.bsky.social•84 days ago

They did a good job the first time. Finishing the job now.

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•84 days ago

One millionaire cries publicly and orange man wipes his ass

dashwallkick.bsky.social•84 days ago

this is the right wing government in its true form -- an insolent, incoherent tantrum about anything someone else did that they don't like.

anti-you.bsky.social•84 days ago

Government by snit to help facilitate the worst possible outcome is the bedrock of conservative governance and why any collective action problem we will ever face, from an asteroid to climate change, is a non-starter so long as the GOP exists. We won’t survive them.