New Post reporting reveals the widely hated congestion-pricing scheme isn’t delivering on its promises. Let’s hope President Trump can soon make good on his promise to kill it. [emphasis, links added]
The tech company TomTom reports traffic in the zone has dropped about 4% in the first third of the year, in contrast to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s claim of an 11% drop.
Plus, businesses tell The Post that they simply add congestion zone costs to all their invoices — thereby inflating everyone’s costs.
So much for Hochul’s talk about making New York more affordable.
But help may be on the way: Trump pulled federal approval of the gov’s tolls back in February, Hochul sued — and a federal judge blocked the move pending his final ruling, now expected within weeks.
For now, Hochul’s heinous charge on working-class drivers and small businesses of up to $21 a day remains in effect.
Yet Trump last month reiterated his vow, directing “Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to take a good, long look at terminating New York City Congestion Pricing.”
Perversely, MTA boss Janno Leiber brags that the tolls are key to balancing his agency’s budgets — yet they bring in less than the nearly $1 billion the MTA is losing to fare evasion.
Which means the working stiffs hit by “congestion pricing” are basically covering for the lowlives jumping the turnstiles.
Talk of congestion tolls long ago began as a push for trucks to do off-hour deliveries to avoid blocking traffic; instead, the scheme’s become a cash cow to cover for the huge revenue loss triggered by city district attorneys’ refusal to enforce the fare-beating laws.
Top image of a New York City congestion toll camera via FOX 5 NY/YouTube screencap.
Read rest at NY Post
We need to remember that one of the three motivations that started the global warming movement was to create an excuse for new taxes. In that regard, the climate change movement has been very successful.