Trump dictator-ing NYC congestion pricing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congestion pricing has been great. On the rare time I need to drive to downtown Manhattan it used to take me about 1.5hrs, I’ve done it twice since and it only took 30min!

It was a pleasure to spend the $9! I was surprised so little would make such a difference. And a friend of mine that lives in the zone is happy as well, quality of life is up with less cars on the street.

Spoken like someone who does not appreciate that 9 dollars daily is a lot to many people

If you are driving in, by yourself, for a white collar job in the congestion zone, $9/day is nothing.

If you are a white collar worker in NYC, why are you driving in at all? NYC is much better set up for commuters with tons of trains from CT/NY surrounding areas and northern NJ. I grew up in a CT suburb of NYC with tons of commuters. I still have friends in CT and NJ who commute to the city. Nobody drives in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congestion pricing has been great. On the rare time I need to drive to downtown Manhattan it used to take me about 1.5hrs, I’ve done it twice since and it only took 30min!

It was a pleasure to spend the $9! I was surprised so little would make such a difference. And a friend of mine that lives in the zone is happy as well, quality of life is up with less cars on the street.

Spoken like someone who does not appreciate that 9 dollars daily is a lot to many people

If you are driving in, by yourself, for a white collar job in the congestion zone, $9/day is nothing.

If you are a white collar worker in NYC, why are you driving in at all? NYC is much better set up for commuters with tons of trains from CT/NY surrounding areas and northern NJ. I grew up in a CT suburb of NYC with tons of commuters. I still have friends in CT and NJ who commute to the city. Nobody drives in.

DP to add, you understand this if you grew up near the area, but if you're just a random tourist who never lived near/in it, you don't get it.

[Anonymous]

The king comment bothers me more than the overreach. 😵

[Anonymous]

The merits or lack thereof of congestion pricing isn’t even the point of this thread! Anyone care to comment on the actual topic?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The merits or lack thereof of congestion pricing isn’t even the point of this thread! Anyone care to comment on the actual topic?!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congestion pricing has been great. On the rare time I need to drive to downtown Manhattan it used to take me about 1.5hrs, I’ve done it twice since and it only took 30min!

It was a pleasure to spend the $9! I was surprised so little would make such a difference. And a friend of mine that lives in the zone is happy as well, quality of life is up with less cars on the street.

Spoken like someone who does not appreciate that 9 dollars daily is a lot to many people

If you are driving in, by yourself, for a white collar job in the congestion zone, $9/day is nothing.

If you are a white collar worker in NYC, why are you driving in at all? NYC is much better set up for commuters with tons of trains from CT/NY surrounding areas and northern NJ. I grew up in a CT suburb of NYC with tons of commuters. I still have friends in CT and NJ who commute to the city. Nobody drives in.

The people who drive in from NJ, Long Island, the enclaves in Brooklyn or Bronx and putter around the city in their car. When you have to pay 9 bucks, people who loiter around in their vehicles stay away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trades folks that drive their vans in everyday actually really liked the congestion charge because it made it MUCH easier to find street parking and reduced their drive time by a lot. The toll itself gets charged to the client, so it was no skin off their back.

Ask the neighbors if they like it and no the trade people do not like it. My family are trades people and no they are not simply passing on this is crazy.

Why aren’t they passing it along?

And have they have not benefited from getting to their jobs more quickly? If they are charging $150/hr as a master plumber and $250 for a basic service call, that $9 just freed them up to get to their first job much faster and make more money in a day.

If they work at a fixed site during fixed hours, is it absolutely necessary they go in a separate car?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congestion pricing has been great. On the rare time I need to drive to downtown Manhattan it used to take me about 1.5hrs, I’ve done it twice since and it only took 30min!

It was a pleasure to spend the $9! I was surprised so little would make such a difference. And a friend of mine that lives in the zone is happy as well, quality of life is up with less cars on the street.

Spoken like someone who does not appreciate that 9 dollars daily is a lot to many people

If you are driving in, by yourself, for a white collar job in the congestion zone, $9/day is nothing.

If you are a white collar worker in NYC, why are you driving in at all? NYC is much better set up for commuters with tons of trains from CT/NY surrounding areas and northern NJ. I grew up in a CT suburb of NYC with tons of commuters. I still have friends in CT and NJ who commute to the city. Nobody drives in.

Agree.


And who’s the fool who keeps claiming that the congestion tax is what enlightened some workers to discovering that mass transportation was a TWICE as FAST way to work?

Wtf works in a city and doesn’t compare that right away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry I missed it, what has happened to the relatively new Congestion Taxes in NYC?

Nothing.

No change.

No action.

Nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congestion pricing has been great. On the rare time I need to drive to downtown Manhattan it used to take me about 1.5hrs, I’ve done it twice since and it only took 30min!

It was a pleasure to spend the $9! I was surprised so little would make such a difference. And a friend of mine that lives in the zone is happy as well, quality of life is up with less cars on the street.

Spoken like someone who does not appreciate that 9 dollars daily is a lot to many people

If you are driving in, by yourself, for a white collar job in the congestion zone, $9/day is nothing.

If you are a white collar worker in NYC, why are you driving in at all? NYC is much better set up for commuters with tons of trains from CT/NY surrounding areas and northern NJ. I grew up in a CT suburb of NYC with tons of commuters. I still have friends in CT and NJ who commute to the city. Nobody drives in.

The people who drive in from NJ, Long Island, the enclaves in Brooklyn or Bronx and putter around the city in their car. When you have to pay 9 bucks, people who loiter around in their vehicles stay away.

Never knew anyone to do this. I spent a lot of time in CT, NJ, LI suburbs of NYC growing up. I went into NYC a lot, had friends that work there and still have friends that work there; I still visit NYC a lot but will intentionally park at a metro station in NJ (or family's house) and train in. I don't know of anyone who drives into the city. It is one place where it is far easier to commute on public transportation than to deal with a car. And I lived in DC for a long time where I maintained a car because I did not live nor work convenient to a metro and still drive into DC because I still work here and my work is not near a metro stop. I think DC has a huge barrier to getting more people into public transportation due to its poor infrastructure for public transportation outside of the center of the city.

But NYC? Totally different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The merits or lack thereof of congestion pricing isn’t even the point of this thread! Anyone care to comment on the actual topic?!

self explanatory

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look you can agree or disagree with him (personally disagree as most people commute via plentiful train services from the burbs; I grew up in a NYC suburb). However, from a GOP perspective, shouldn't tolls be left as a state issue without federal tampering? This just looks like petty overreach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/nyregion/trump-congestion-pricing-nyc.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20250219&instance_id=147935&nl=from-the-times®i_id=64963071&segment_id=191410&user_id=90d3e0bd760b3d1fe08b44f9adde894c

What tampering is happening?

A tweet? A request? A suggestion? And order? A kickback tied to stopping it? A formal bribe?

What?

[Anonymous]

Mo taxes, Mo money for NY pensions and benies.

[Anonymous]

Trump: state’s rights unless I disagree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry I missed it, what has happened to the relatively new Congestion Taxes in NYC?

Nothing yet.

We are a nation of states with laws might have been better.