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Congestion pricing is one of the most successful policies in New York City history (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by DwZ@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 19 minutes ago

Public opinion should have been red. This is needlessly partisan.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 116 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

All positives: public opinion not great.

Thanks, fucking propagandists...

[+] jol@discuss.tchncs.de -6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

This table is clearly cherry picked and biased. If you add a row "cost of me bringing my car", then it's up, up, UP in big red letters!! No thanks!

Edit: I meant this as a jokeeeee omg /s

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Edit: I meant this as a jokeeeee omg /s

In my experience, this community is really sensitive to anything even remotely pro-car, so jokes need to be marked more clearly than multiple exclamation marks! Haha

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

Tbf, it sounded like a matter-of-fact opinion to my filthy casual ears until I saw the edit.

[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 13 points 20 hours ago

So your cost should overwrite safer streets, less congestion for people who do drive, and less noise and air pollution for people who don't even drive? What a selfish person.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

I know you're joking but is it even up? I haven't driven in NYC, but my experience in other large cities is that unless you're parking at a friend's place, having a car in town can be expensive and annoying when you want to park it close to your destination. And that's assuming no one fucks with it while you're away from it.

Though it does depend on how much the tolls are. Hell, parking might even be cheaper now that demand is down, unless they've started repurposing parking space already.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What is "brining" for cars? Is this a joke?

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

I think it's supposed to say "bringing".

Yeah. Bringing your car is more expensive. That's the whole point of the toll.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh god YES it was a joke 🤦I forgot the /s

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 18 hours ago

This is the finest example of poe's law I've seen all week

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

should have been done decades ago. would have been quite a bit harder to implement before the tech that enables it to be done efficiently, though.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 23 hours ago

Obvious years before it was implemented, that's part of the problem.