New York City Congestion Pricing

There’s a cool tracker someone made to see, in real time, how commutes have changed before and after today. They also have a comparison for overall commutes in Chicago and Boston to show specific impacts to NYC vs larger trends. Pretty cool!

Congestion Pricing Tracker | Benjamin and Joshua Moshes

This project is run by Joshua Moshes and Benjamin Moshes, under the supervision of Brown University Professor Emily Oster
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
 
Justbuildit said:
There’s a cool tracker someone made to see, in real time, how commutes have changed before and after today. They also have a comparison for overall commutes in Chicago and Boston to show specific impacts to NYC vs larger trends. Pretty cool!

Congestion Pricing Tracker | Benjamin and Joshua Moshes

This project is run by Joshua Moshes and Benjamin Moshes, under the supervision of Brown University Professor Emily Oster
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
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newjerseymonitor.com

Transit advocates say congestion pricing behind shorter commute times • New Jersey Monitor

A tracker run by Brown University students says Monday's commute time was down compared the commuting times before congesting pricing started.
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An apparent drop in traffic heading into Manhattan on the first weekday day of congestion pricing has transit advocates cheering.

A tracker run by Brown University students showed a significant decline in average commute times for drivers taking the Holland and Lincoln tunnels Monday. While the average commute around 8 a.m. for drivers using the Holland Tunnel on a Monday was 23 minutes prior to congestion pricing, it plunged to 14 minutes at the same time Monday.

For drivers using the Lincoln Tunnel, the average commute was about nine minutes before Monday — and on Monday, it was five, according to the tracker.
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There's an executive order out right now about placing priority for funding on transportation projects with user pay models. This is right up their alley.
 
nypost.com

Exclusive | Trump reveals plan to ‘kill’ NYC congestion pricing — here’s how

President Donald Trump has formulated a plan to force New York to “kill” congestion pricing tolls in the city by withholding funds through the Department of Transportation, he told The New York Pos…
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President Trump has formulated a plan to force New York to “kill” congestion pricing in Manhattan through the federal Department of Transportation, he told The Post in an exclusive interview.

Among potential penalties available to the agency are withholding millions of dollars in funding and reopening the environmental review process that authorized the toll under the Biden administration.

Trump also vowed to rid Big Apple streets of bike lanes and criminal migrants, the president told The Post in an exclusive interview.
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www.nytimes.com

Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls

President Trump had raised concerns that the new tolling program, the first of its kind in America, was drawing visitors and businesses away from Manhattan.
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In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday, the president’s transportation secretary outlined Mr. Trump’s objections to the program, the first of its kind in the United States, and said that federal officials would contact the state to “discuss the orderly cessation of toll operations.”

The letter did not indicate a specific date by which the federal government intended to end the program. The decision will almost certainly be challenged in court.
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Meanwhile, official DOT guidance for states/MPOs/munis is to encourage projects supported by user fees.
 
Is it state's rights when the POTUS unilaterally overrides a duly passed and reviewed state law? Super cool that the executive branch can just wave wands now. Surely no possible way this could backfire at the hands of future administrations with different perspectives on the world. Principles!
 
KCasiglio said:
www.nytimes.com

Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls

President Trump had raised concerns that the new tolling program, the first of its kind in America, was drawing visitors and businesses away from Manhattan.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
Meanwhile, official DOT guidance for states/MPOs/munis is to encourage projects supported by user fees.
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Signed to be enforced in an EO by none other than DT.

The further threats over bike lanes and criminal migrants is so tired. For claiming to be focused on the real issues, here we have the POTUS talking about lanes for bicycles in a city where no average resident has a car (22% ownership in Manhattan, 45% elsewhere), and a "criminal migrant" issue in the streets that I didn't see in my trip around several boroughs of NYC this weekend. If he is actually so concerned about urban crime, he should sell off his real estate in urban areas and pull his son out of NYU.
 
KCasiglio said:
www.nytimes.com

Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls

President Trump had raised concerns that the new tolling program, the first of its kind in America, was drawing visitors and businesses away from Manhattan.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com



Meanwhile, official DOT guidance for states/MPOs/munis is to encourage projects supported by user fees.
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I would be surprised if he has any legal basis to stop congestion pricing. This is political bullying and seeing what he can get away with. So as long as New York has a governor with unwavering support for congestion pricing and some basic competence....... oh. Oh dear.
 
Justbuildit said:
Is it state's rights when the POTUS unilaterally overrides a duly passed and reviewed state law? Super cool that the executive branch can just wave wands now. Surely no possible way this could backfire at the hands of future administrations with different perspectives on the world. Principles!
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Political cries for state's rights generally are just BS to try to have it both ways. We don't want to do what the federal government says, but when the federal government imposes things we like on others, great. Don't take the bait.
 
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