DoT Terminates Tolling Approval for New York City's Cordon Pricing Program

[impish9208]

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-terminates-tolling-approval-new-york-citys-cordon

[casenmgreen]

Sounds like revenge / threat / attack re Adams.

[JojoFatsani → casenmgreen]

This is about flipping NJ. People there are pissed and this will only add to R gains there.

[MrMorden → JojoFatsani]

NJ has 10M residents, of which ~500k work in NYC, and at most 2% of those would pay the congestion charge based on their pre-charge commute. Even if every one of those people previously voted D and went hard R plus convinced five of their non-driving friends to do the same, that's 50k flipped votes which is utterly irrelevant.

The better political option is to increase the 2-axle congestion charge to $25 (London's £15 adjusted by PPP using national numbers, so extremely conservative) and spend half of it on transit in the commuter's origin location.

[mpalmer]

> Finally, it impedes the flow of commerce into New York by increasing costs for trucks, which in turn could make goods more expensive for consumers

This is plainly absurd. Non-articulated trucks pay a toll of $14, larger trucks $21.