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[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
  • Are there exemptions, credits or discounts?
    Low-income drivers can register for a 50 percent discount after the first 10 trips in a month. During peak hours, drivers of passenger vehicles who enter Manhattan via four tunnels that already require tolls — the Lincoln, Holland, Hugh L. Carey and Queens-Midtown — will receive a credit of up to $3 against the daily congestion charge.

Excellent. But I do wish there was an exemption for disabled people on SSDI.

When you’re on 10k income per year, and have no mobility without a car, it basically means you can’t go in/out of manhattan on your own money.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anybody living off SSDI is almost surely not driving into lower Manhattan to begin with. Parking is like $100/day there.

My understanding is that local disability rights groups favor the charge because it pays for improving access to mass transit, which is what they're already using

[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you live in manhattan.

I used to love taking transit as a disabled person (when it was accessible), but now my condition has worsened so bad I cannot travel without being horizontal. Which means I need to pay caregivers to take me to medical appointments by car.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

Even people outside Manhattan are largely taking public transit into it.

I get that it's almost impossible to get around if you need to pay for medical transport so you can travel in a horizontal position every time, and this does little to change that situation.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why on earth would you need “live updates” about this?

“Breaking! Car drives into Manhattan and pays $9. And another. And there’s another!”

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