It’ll cost $9 each time. They’re raising money for the mass transit system by charging specifically those people who don’t use the mass transit system and that feels really unfair to me.

  • @[email protected]
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    14 days ago

    I’m not familiar with NYC, but isn’t this exactly the opposite of their goals? If you are staying within the congestion zone, you should be taking a different form of transportation. It’s only when leaving that area that you have a (potentially) valid reason to take your own car.

    • HobbitFoot
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      44 days ago

      Most congestion pricing schemes rely only on tolling the boundary and generally target central business districts with little internal traffic. The technology is there to install more internal tracking of traffic, but you’d probably push up against privacy groups and the deployment of the tech would be a lot more expensive.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 days ago

      This is kind of where my thinking was at. Although I don’t know how you’d implement taxing that.