Looks like the congestion fees will be used to cover the public transportation expenses, so wealthy people will be sponsoring the poor people transportation options.
And from what I recall there are discounts and some exceptions for poorer workers, albeit limited. Which it needs to be as pushing people to public and active transport is the point of the policy.
NYC practically has the best public transportation in America. Maybe by the standards of other countries it isn’t great, but there is a reason NYC has the lowest car ownership rate in the country.
That’s crazy, but kind of makes sense, you can go practically anywhere by public transport. How do you (or they) identify in a country that relies so much on drivers licences, tho?
I mean, that’s great, but isn’t this still seggregating people?
Sorry, I’m not even familiar with how NY works, but as a generalization, I think that if you put a fee, you’re not necessarily going to remove cars from the streets, but select what cars will be on the streets.
Or maybe this does work, it’s been succesfully done on other fields, like tobacco consumption. Idk, I just feel like these things are unfair somehow, I hope it helps tho.
NYC is very much public transit and bike focused. A very significant portion of people never even learn to drive. The only cars on the road are business, rich people, and ubers. Some parking spots have a higher income than many service workers.
Unfortunately, there’s also next to zero enforcement of traffic laws so people get hit and killed by cars daily
Not really there’s still mass transit, or walking, or cycling, or being close to the stuff you need. I speak from experience, lived in nyc all my life. If anything it makes life easier as a pedestrian because there’s less useless traffic from people crossing over from eastern ny to the rest of the tristate area and back, so there’s more consistent mass transit.
This is just gonna limit how poor people move even more, pushing them into public transport while the wealthy keep doing whatever they want.
My dude, poor people are not driving in New York lmao
Lol touche. I have no idea, honestly, but there’s always people with tighter budgets
Why did you even post that if you had no clue what you were talking about?
Looks like the congestion fees will be used to cover the public transportation expenses, so wealthy people will be sponsoring the poor people transportation options.
And from what I recall there are discounts and some exceptions for poorer workers, albeit limited. Which it needs to be as pushing people to public and active transport is the point of the policy.
im not familiar with the city but i feel public transit would stay just as shitty?
i feel like this will be carbon tax all over again.
NYC practically has the best public transportation in America. Maybe by the standards of other countries it isn’t great, but there is a reason NYC has the lowest car ownership rate in the country.
That’s crazy, but kind of makes sense, you can go practically anywhere by public transport. How do you (or they) identify in a country that relies so much on drivers licences, tho?
We have state ID cards for those who do not have a driver’s license or cannot get one for whatever reason.
I mean, that’s great, but isn’t this still seggregating people?
Sorry, I’m not even familiar with how NY works, but as a generalization, I think that if you put a fee, you’re not necessarily going to remove cars from the streets, but select what cars will be on the streets.
Or maybe this does work, it’s been succesfully done on other fields, like tobacco consumption. Idk, I just feel like these things are unfair somehow, I hope it helps tho.
NYC is very much public transit and bike focused. A very significant portion of people never even learn to drive. The only cars on the road are business, rich people, and ubers. Some parking spots have a higher income than many service workers.
Unfortunately, there’s also next to zero enforcement of traffic laws so people get hit and killed by cars daily
Poor people do not drive into Manhattan. Without congestion pricing it is too expensive.
Not really there’s still mass transit, or walking, or cycling, or being close to the stuff you need. I speak from experience, lived in nyc all my life. If anything it makes life easier as a pedestrian because there’s less useless traffic from people crossing over from eastern ny to the rest of the tristate area and back, so there’s more consistent mass transit.