Summary

New York City has become the first U.S. city to implement a congestion charge, with car drivers paying up to $9 daily to enter areas south of Central Park.

The scheme aims to reduce traffic and fund public transport but has faced opposition, including from Donald Trump, who has vowed to overturn it.

Fees vary by vehicle type, with trucks and buses paying higher rates.

Despite legal challenges, the initiative moves forward as New York remains the world’s most congested urban area, with peak traffic speeds averaging just 11 mph.

  • @[email protected]
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    fedilink
    73 days ago

    Houston was not designed with traffic in mind. Houston is a blob of vague zoning laws and and “add-a-lane” monstrous freeways that create 4 hours of crawling traffic.

    • @Zahille7
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      32 days ago

      My God Houston SUUUUUUUCKS

      I drove through there for work and it was terrible. Just concrete jungles of interchanges and highways, flanked on either side by frontage roads that are all one way. Meaning you have to drive all the way down to the next light if you miss your stop or something.

      Texas fucking sucks.