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Driving in Manhattan is for truck deliveries and taxis only.
If you try to drive a car from point to point in Manhattan, you’re an asshole.
Public transportation in the USA sucks shit and it should be improved before unleashing a congestion toll.
I take it you’ve never heard of new york, then?
NYC has one of the biggest public transportation systems ever built
Yeah that’s a good point. Also, the congestion pricing could fund improvement to public transport And motivate a change in perspective for the residents.
Wendover productions did an interesting video on this recently.
What I’ve read says that you aren’t charged unless you cross the boundary. If you reside inside the zone and never leave and enter again, you won’t be charged a toll.
Even better, he’s north of the boundary. It ends at 60th st.
Congestion fees are a very capitalist way of solving it. This law basically exists for everyone except rich people (i,e. Those who can afford to pay fees).
All this is based on a false assumption that money has an objective value. But in reality, 1$ means different things for different classes.
Yes but the money goes 100% to public transit so it benefits the lower income public transport commuters too.
I mean, you are right and the fee should be proportional to wealth, but it is not gonna affect the poor people because they use the public transit. Maybe anywhere else in the US may be true that “even the homeless need/have a car” but NYC would be the exception.
Love how this is in the one US city where you need a car the least as far as I know. You’ve got the subway, the sidewalks, cabs… I mean sure, the latter exists in the form of ride sharing apps basically everywhere now, but NYC had cabs even in old movies. Though I suspect most other cities of any real size had them as well
There are buses too. Last time I visited NYC I used buses all the time. They were clean, frequent, cheap, and I had great conversations with other passengers. 10/10.
I dunno about NYC but Chicago has a pretty large and diverse public transit system.
That said the first bus I got onto in Chicago clearly hit a parked car that was too far over the line and the driver just sorta shrugged and kept on truckin’.
The cabs actually get a surcharge for the congestion pricing but who cares.
Awww he might have to go on the big scary subway and desk with the poors… A sad day indeed
His kids live on 79th street and he will have to pay congestion price every time he goes to see them.
So like, what, Christmas and their birthdays?
That was my first thought as well. Why doesn’t his kids want to live with him?
Not having primary custody can be due to lots of things, I won’t judge anyone male or female for it unless there’s abuse involved.
Also maybe theyre adults?
Just take the 6 like 2 stops you absolute donkey
Dude is complaining because even though he just lives out side of the zone he still has to pay the fee even when he travels north to 79th which is also outside zone. That area is all one way streets and if he wants to go north he has to travel south first into to zone and then he can turn around and drive to 79th. Though I have zero sympathy if you can afford to live right next to Central Park you can afford to pay the fee hunderds of times per week.
Property shark CEO inconvencied. Sad trombone.
I looked on the map. That overlooks Central Park.
If your home overlooks Central Park, I’m pretty sure you can afford a congestion charge.
Some of the most frugal, penny pitching people I know are also some of the wealthiest people I know.
A good reason to feel sorry for his kids.
Yep. I work in tech and there’s a guy who cannot stop bragging about his millionaire status and is so ridiculously cheap.
You know he’s got exactly $1,000,001 too.
I was wondering if there was more to the story. Like, maybe he has a disability and NYC doesn’t have an exemption for disabilities. They do, however, have an exemption for disabilities as well as a reduced rate for low income residents. To me it sounds like this guy is just lazy.
Looking at this on Google Maps, he can get anywhere on 76th St using one bus or subway ride and a 5-10 minute walk.
Zero sympathy.
Wow, I can’t believe you’d suggest subjecting this poor man to something as horrible as being forced to use a public bus.
A bus? With all the other peasants?
Sometimes when I ride the bus I’m uncomfortable with how my country fails the least fortunate
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation. (mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa)
“Ahh, the old number 22. Clean, reliable public transportation. The chariot of the people. The ride of choice for the poor and very poor alike!”
I found Area 51!!
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Bedbug bus? :p
it’s almost like that’s the point of congestion pricing
Imagine if we got this sort of coverage whenever someone was inconvenienced by public transit being cut, or a bike lane being blocked, or fares being raised.
But that doesn’t manufacture consent for the corporate dictatorship?
He gets charged every time he moves his car?
- Yes cars cost money to maintain.
- Is there a camera pointed at his car or something? Ready to swipe his credit card as soon as anything happens to the car?
No, the toll gets charged only once per day.
2 is actually true in this scenario
What? How?
If it’s anything like the congestion/clear air zones in the uk: Cameras on every entrance/exit to the zone do ANPR (Automatic Number/license Plate Recognition).
Any plates that haven’t pre-paid, or paid within 24 hours get a fine in the post.
It works really efficiently.
The only exit from his parking structure is a street equipped with a system that automatically charges a toll.
Skill issue (on the car’s account)
