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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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

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

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

I lived in the Village, Soho, and Chelsea. The city is chalk full of B&T drivers who want to "come into the city" for drinks, a meal, or shopping and don't want to take mass transit. Young guys from Bay Ridge with their parents' car and not a ton of money joy riding around on weekend evenings. Uber drivers who come in and wait for certain rush hour fares, but otherwise loiter with their vehicle between shifts.[/quote]

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