The officials who are overseeing congestion pricing in New York City on Wednesday provided details of their recommendations for how much drivers should pay to enter the busiest part of Manhattan and who should get discounts. New York is expected to become the first city in the nation to implement congestion pricing as soon as […]
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The nation’s first congestion pricing program is taking final shape in New York City, and most drivers appear likely to pay $15 to enter some of the busiest streets in Manhattan as soon as next spring. Transit officials on Wednesday provided the clearest picture yet of the tolls they hope to implement to collect roughly […]
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Why It Matters New York City’s century-old mass transit system is in dire need of wear-and-tear upgrades while it also contends with a climate crisis that it was not built to withstand. The M.T.A.’s report has been released as the state prepares to start a first-in-the-nation congestion pricing program, designed to collect billions of dollars […]
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Bloomberg / Contributor via Getty Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities. If all goes well, in about six months New York City will finally enact the nation’s first congestion pricing plan, which will charge private vehicles some yet-to-be-determined amount of money to drive into Manhattan below 60th Street. New York, through […]
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As the economist Tyler Cowan put it in a recent Washington Post column, “The composition of the residents matters, and the composition of the visitors matters, too.” We can imagine an alternate history where people like Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe looked across the water at Manhattan, from New Jersey and Queens, and decided that […]
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