How Well Is [NYC’s] Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. “The number of complaints about excessive car-honking in January and February was 70 percent lower than last January and February.”
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As a Manhattan resident I can attest to its extraordinary positive impact.
Fellow Manhattanite here. I fully agree. And as someone that lives uptown, above the cut-off the for where congestion pricing kicks in, I can also say that all the doom-saying about congestion pricing turning uptown Manhattan into a parking lot as people sought to park uptown to avoid the tolls has not turned out to be true at all. Street parking and traffic up here is the same as it ever was.
This reminds me as always of the classic Onion story that contains the line, “A study released Monday by the American Public Transportation Association reveals that 98 percent of Americans support the use of mass transit by others.”
What’s amazing is that (as other cities have discovered!), congestion pricing doesn’t confirm the joke!
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