some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
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When they dropped it to 9 (6 after ezpass credit) much more reasonable and less oppressive for everyday people
Glad it’s working as intended
Leasing and retails sales changes of that magnitude are minimally related.
We have 10 years of studies showing how vanishingly tare it is for low income people to own a car or drive into the congestion zone.
And there are exceptions for people who are actually residents and low income.
Thanks for not doing your homework and making people up though!
Less honking outside my apt. Less angry drivers on the streets, more, better subway riders.
No downside, just a better, more functional city and less selfish, Infernal Combustion D-bags ruining it.
1. Are the trains like rush hour most of the time now?
2. How is this affecting the folks that use the subways as shelter?
Public transport ftw
More real answer: Culture war, cars are coded as for regular Americans from the suburbs/exurbs and therefore right wing, the subway is for corrupt progressive urban elites and you might get stabbed because cities scary
There’s been a lot of discourse about it online and those who support it are visibly YIMBY and all that goes with that. Those opposed are big beefy suburban assholes.
Yes, this is how I remember things used to be. People had some kind of iron-clad rationale for their expressed opinions. When you've lived under Trump's shadow for so long that feels strange.
Every policy is a means to exercise cultural violence, no matter the cost. Deportations, anti-DEI, tariffs, anti-vaccine: all awful for the economy. They don’t care.
-subways are government-run
-mass transit seen as environmentalist-friendly (this is probably the big one)
-deep-seated US Right belief that the big city is a hellhole and any additional exposure to its citizens is dangerous
He probably would like it if it were implemented by conservatives.
They object because anything they see as anti-driver offends them. The even hate lower speed limits near schools.
Me after congestion pricing: living in new york is the only thing that will complete my life