Long Island and Staten Islanders. There's also parts of the outer boroughs, esp Queens and Brooklyn, that are transit deserts and people are forced to drive everywhere. I'm from Queens and there are entire neighborhoods with no subway at all, just buses.
@@beanpasteposts ...the bus is something you can actually take, y'know. It's not just there for show. Still beats having to own a car which creates more pollution than a single bus carrying many more people.
I remember the first time I visited NYC. I chose to drive into the city. Got stuck in gridlock for three hours. Worst decision I made that trip. When I visited again and many more times, I always chose to ride the subway and commuter rail instead. Never once have I heard of people who drove in New York and didn't regret it unless they were completely oblivious to other options. Don't understand why anyone would drive in that nightmare. Fund public transit better, it's the only option.
If public transit is so much better, why would people rather spend hours in traffic than take it? They have valid reasons IMO. The MTA has plenty of funding as is and does nothing to improve the system, "congestion pricing" is just another money grab and means of control.
There is this principle called the Downs-Thomson paradox: People will take whichever method is the fastest and most convenient for their trip. For almost all New Yorkers taking public transit is king. But in order to move more people we need to actually have real viable alternatives to driving, and the best way to do that is street/road hierarchy; most cars traveling through Manhattan should be on FDR Drive or the West Side Highway, not on local streets. Discouraging driving is one thing; making it impossible to drive through local streets is another.
This is all about generating revenue for the MTA. Everything will get more expensive even if you don't drive. Your food, deliveries, services cost, etc will go up as a result of this.
Have you seen ambulances going 2mphs with their sirens blaring? I see it everyday. I sometimes think about how the traffic might very well cause someone’s death. It needs to be solved no matter how.
Funny that you bring this up... FDNY UFA actually said that congestion pricing was horrible for firefighters going into work due to their equipment being highly toxic to the public. No one wants congestion pricing, not even the MTA EMPLOYEES.
We’ve had congestion pricing in London since 2003 and it’s GREAT. Consistent funding for transit, reduces congestion for those who need to be there… and anyway, who lives into Central London/Lower Manhattan anyway!
Wow, make lies and hide the fact that every other place around downtown London is crowded with traffic and how congestion pricing has failed as a whole there like everywhere else, right? "London's congestion pricing hasn't worked as well as advertised. London is still more congested than ever, even worse than New York per traffic modeler INRIX. The policy is so unpopular that 66% of residents voted against its enlargement." Make it make sense bro. Who is it helping kreo streets traffic free, everywhere else?
@@SquidCena "[Upon introduction, the charge] Limited traffic entering the zone by 18 per cent during weekday charging hours, reduced congestion by 30 per cent, boosted bus travel in central London by 33 per cent, enabled 10 per cent of journeys to switch to walking, cycling and public transport" Pretty good, right? Yeah we did have a large increase in traffic - Uber and delivery drivers, basically. And they pay for the congestion charge. Why would we turn down nearly £250m ($317m) a year in income for transit? The charge still discourages people who don't need to drive to central London - if anything, the increase in traffic shows how attractive the city is. Some of the anti-congestion charge arguments I've heard are funny - it cannot simultaneously "drive away everyone from ever visiting downtown Manhattan" and also "it doesn't work because there will still be congestion".
@@JamesScantlebury the key difference here is where the revenue of those congestion tolls is invested. NYC, serving 3 states (NY, NJ, and CT) is a megapolis with increasingly expensive mass transit fares and a widening income gap (more than 20% of residents live in poverty). What’s generated in revenue by the MTA from us tax paying (state, federal, and municipal) residents of NYC goes to support the rest of New York State. We never get to see the fruits of our taxes even though they’re some of the highest in the nation. Delivery drivers already pay some of the highest tolls in the nation. What “works” in the UK simply doesn’t work in the U.S. Honestly, what you think works in the U.K doesn’t even work in the U.K.
Wow that system might work in London no one wants to ride the New York City subways. In London you lack one thing that New York City has. All the black and brown people that are committing the crimes on the ground
@@JamesScantlebury You're not making much sense. Traffic around Central London, isn't great though. All your doing, is moving traffic from one place, to another. Please tell me how is that better. That's like moving thr homeless from the sidewalk to under the highway. Uber and delivery drivers are the only reason why? Sure, I'm sure most of the cars on the street aren't citizens going to work or other places. It's just mainly taxis and delivery drivers, go off somewhere else bro. 317million is literally nothing. Some of the pro congestion arguments I've seen are just nonsensical and ignore the fact that this will not solve anything, nor is this to benefit the people or solve any problems, but to just make money off of the people. I'm sure you love the government so much, don't you.
It’s OK for congestion pricing to go ahead IF TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS GO AHEAD. I’m on for this, but people need to understand that they’re just paying for the damage to the city that they are making by driving
Catch up on all of the initiatives that are underway at the moment. You’ll see that there is a lot of improvements happening all over the city with the MTA. Congestion pricing would further fund these improvements.
@@dodygonzalez573Yet the agency will still cry broke since they don't know how to spend money properly. So many projects have gone over budget too many times at the expense of taxpayers.
@dodygonzalez573 The government already funds these "improvements", the MTA is greedy as heck, you're telling me they don't have enough money to fund projects already?
@atrailmckinley4786 That and they definitely are greedy, they have money yet make poor choices across the board. They want to use light rail instead of commuter train/subway in Brooklyn/Queens.
Does everyone notice how the MTA can’t even guarantee this would be the end of the ticket fare, toll increases? This is just the beginning for a new way they can gouge the working class of NYC for their stupid pet projects like a $30 million subway staircase in Times Squarez
The FDR Drive, Long Island Expressway, and any busy highways that MTA buses use should get special bus lanes. So many express buses get stuck in traffic all the time, and that hasn’t been too different on many weekdays except select holidays when many people are away on travels.
@@pokergaming4609 What's even funnier is that people have drove through Long Island Expressway HOV Lanes using dummies or anything to present "fake" passengers to beat highway congestions! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shameful. Great injustice to hard working New Yorkers who struggle to make their ends meet. No New Yorker who resides in New York City should pay a dime to drive into Manhattan.
When will people wake up and realize that regular Passenger cars under various Supreme Court cases are not required to have license plates registration and inspection stickers anywhere in the country especially New York. Therefore I support regular Passenger cars taking off their plates hiding their plates covering their places in any way possible shape or form avoiding these frivolous and illegal taxes imposed against people who are justly and rightfully not subject to them . If it's costing people 20 billion a year how is taxing it to the tune of another billion dollars a year making it better for the people because it's not follow the money and see who's pockets it's going into
DINNING SHEDS are the congestion problem ! They are blocking traffic. Just walk down Mulberry Street . I counted 78 sheds in the bloody middle of the road. Follow the $$$ ?
I hope more people will follow me as I saw this coming and left the city 5 years ago. I took my business out, my family out and I no longer offer any services to Manhattan. And if it continues I shall abandon NYC and lower westchester too...
If subway systems were more reliable, then yes, enforce congestion pricing. But an unsafe mass transit system + unreliable service? You’re taking advantage in ways that should make you question your moral compass.
I wish more money was invested into the public transit in this city. It could be so much better and more people would actually ride it. More people on public transit means less cars, less traffic, and less accidents.
Perma ban all non essential vehicles from entering Manhattan, this the only way. There is no solution, the city offers needs of service, hospitality, entertainment and more on every corner, everything is in walking distance. Congestion pricing is a band aid on a massive wound, you can not deter the effects of population growth, congestion and poor design by taxing the working class. This is a massive failure, and clear example of a poor leadership and greed. The rate of travel in an vehicles is far slower than public transportation or simply walking, thus the benefits of a car are deemed useless and ineffective. The MTA has plenty of money, to invest in modernizing and futurizing all of its infrastructure, creating faster travel times, improved stations, larger box cars, and more. This motion will not "unlock a better nyc" it will unlock "more wealth" that will sit and do nothing.
No one's going to fall in love with this. People are just going to avoid going to the city. The only people that are gonna love it. Are you stupid tree huggers. Don't worry once the empty blows. That money they will start taxing bikes to ride on bike Lanes.
The MTA should hire someone who really knows how to operate public transportation (from Japan, Russia, China, UAE) and fire all those lazy workers. Literally, all of their workers are lazy; they are doing nothing but chatting and walking around. And 20 billion is very good money; it is probably enough for funding and hiring real specialists from overseas.
Fix the subways, make them safe, clean them and I will take the subway. They need to cover the city budget and they find the way. Money that they spent for nonsense reasons.
I don't have much but I wouldn't give what I have in life now compared to what I used to have and when I lived in New York it's a matter what you want you want to live life or you want to struggle and kill each other for a buck while staying New York then
the cost is too high, all of the generated income purely going to MTA while telling all commuters to take other transit systems that receive NOTHING so how does that work? Overload public transit systems that also need funding. Seems like one giant cash grab. Especially cuz this congestion pricing is ON TOP of already increasing fare hikes. None of it makes sense. There is no equity in this plan - just greedy MTA and greedy NYC.
I don't know what it will take car drivers to understand that their mode of transportation is outrageously inefficient for the number of people it serves. It's a matter of geometry: Cars are *vastly* less space-efficient than trains. And that matters in the densest city in the country, where space is a premium.
@@BritainRittenI don't know what it will take for people like you to realize that not everyone has access to a train. We are a nation that is dependent on interstate commerce. Not everyone can just ditch cars and hop on a train. All this will do is make traffic worse outside the zone in places like the south bronx and thus pollution will increase. This is not an equitable solution at all. The MTA should not be wasting the billions they already get and spend the money properly rather than continue to squeeze taxpayers even more due to their mismanagement. I don't drive but congestion pricing is environmental injustice and will not benefit most New Yorkers
Why are taxis charged $1.25, Ubers $2.50, and normal cars $15? Explain that bullsh-t to me please. All of those vehicles emit the same amount of CO2, cause the same amount of traffic, etc. This is not about all those virtuous reasons you acclaim, it's simply about control, forcing people to take an unsafe, slow, unreliable mode of transportation, and, of course, extracting every last cent out of the populous. And the MTA is so bad, in fact, that people would rather waste hours in traffic than to take it.
This is a move that is long overdue not only in New York City, but across several other major cities with extremely bad traffic congestion, particularly Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago. I personally believe that the lawsuits going against this plan should be dropped by the courts.
Love this. Thank you MTA for going on the offense for this essential program-decades in the making! As a lifelong resident of the Manhattan CBD I can't wait for the gridlock relief, faster buses, better subways, cleaner air, and safer streets.
Because that's a mode of transportation that is cheap, accessible to most people, offers a quick door-to-door trip, and that allows a huge flow of traffic in dense cities.
No, actually it's not expensive enough. With all the fares and fees and insurance you pay, you are merely paying *towards* the cost of you driving in, but you are not yet paying *for* the cost of you driving in. Car infrastructure is far more expensive per user - not to mention all the other costs in terms of wasted land and polluted air/water that everyone has to pay for your convenience. Take the train or pay the price. Simple.
@kirkrotger9208 What a dumb comment. There are people that have to drive into Manhattan because they don't have other means to get into Manhattan. Also all congestion pricing will do is take traffic from a wealthy part of the city and move it into poorer areas like the south bronx. That is exactly what happened in London. How is it fair that a wealthy part of the city may get less pollution but poorer parts of the city will get worse air pollution? That is environmental injustice and a violation of environmental laws hence all the lawsuits. Not to mention costs of goods and services will just go up in Manhattan as the costs will be passed onto the consumer. I don't drive but I hope this gets killed in the courts. The MTA has a history of mismanagement and wasting money so I don't even think they would handle the money properly anyways
Congestion pricing: a way to force you back onto the subways and buses since nobody wants to ride them anymore. What happens if everybody just decided to walk everywhere??? Y’all gonna charge people to walk too???
You don't seem to get it. We don't want you driving in. Come on the train or just don't come. We won't miss you the subways and buses since nobody wants to ride them anymore. 2 million+ use them every day - still far more than the number of drivers.
Actually your wrong in this time and age Subway and buses are fighting back with passengers number rising really quickly car are just in way of a lot of thingd
@@BritainRittenSo you don't want people to contribute to the city's economy by not coming if they have no other means to get here. What a stupid comment. Not everybody can just hop on a train. Transit deserts exist in this city
@@Atrail_Mckinley4786drive to a train station and take the train. It’s not hard. Also driving in the city is not good for the economy. You know parking spaces are subsidized right? (Like by a lot)
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I will never understand why anyone drives in NYC.
I’m pretty sure many of them are from other states & suburbs.
@@JakeGaming2634 Transit exists in those places. People should use it instead of blowing half of their bank account on gas.
Long Island and Staten Islanders. There's also parts of the outer boroughs, esp Queens and Brooklyn, that are transit deserts and people are forced to drive everywhere. I'm from Queens and there are entire neighborhoods with no subway at all, just buses.
@@beanpasteposts ...the bus is something you can actually take, y'know. It's not just there for show. Still beats having to own a car which creates more pollution than a single bus carrying many more people.
@@grand.central That’s exactly what I’m thinking of. They should invest more in transit instead of building more highways.
I remember the first time I visited NYC. I chose to drive into the city. Got stuck in gridlock for three hours. Worst decision I made that trip. When I visited again and many more times, I always chose to ride the subway and commuter rail instead. Never once have I heard of people who drove in New York and didn't regret it unless they were completely oblivious to other options. Don't understand why anyone would drive in that nightmare. Fund public transit better, it's the only option.
If public transit is so much better, why would people rather spend hours in traffic than take it? They have valid reasons IMO. The MTA has plenty of funding as is and does nothing to improve the system, "congestion pricing" is just another money grab and means of control.
Agreed, public transit needs better funding and priority. Cars steal way too much space in the city from people, and cause so many accidents too.
People drive FOR MANY REASONS. It’s not like we prefer to just throw money into a fire
There is this principle called the Downs-Thomson paradox: People will take whichever method is the fastest and most convenient for their trip. For almost all New Yorkers taking public transit is king. But in order to move more people we need to actually have real viable alternatives to driving, and the best way to do that is street/road hierarchy; most cars traveling through Manhattan should be on FDR Drive or the West Side Highway, not on local streets. Discouraging driving is one thing; making it impossible to drive through local streets is another.
The MTA does not need congestion pricing, they NEED BETTER MONEY MANAGEMENT!
They know, but they need to keep money flow into their pockets
This is all about generating revenue for the MTA. Everything will get more expensive even if you don't drive. Your food, deliveries, services cost, etc will go up as a result of this.
yea but cars suck
Have you seen ambulances going 2mphs with their sirens blaring? I see it everyday. I sometimes think about how the traffic might very well cause someone’s death. It needs to be solved no matter how.
@@AbnormalEuclid "yea but cars suck" until you have to pay 10$ for a single BEC. fuck outta here
Funny that you bring this up... FDNY UFA actually said that congestion pricing was horrible for firefighters going into work due to their equipment being highly toxic to the public. No one wants congestion pricing, not even the MTA EMPLOYEES.
@@transitmanvex Calling immediate fucking bullshit.
We’ve had congestion pricing in London since 2003 and it’s GREAT. Consistent funding for transit, reduces congestion for those who need to be there… and anyway, who lives into Central London/Lower Manhattan anyway!
Wow, make lies and hide the fact that every other place around downtown London is crowded with traffic and how congestion pricing has failed as a whole there like everywhere else, right?
"London's congestion pricing hasn't worked as well as advertised. London is still more congested than ever, even worse than New York per traffic modeler INRIX. The policy is so unpopular that 66% of residents voted against its enlargement."
Make it make sense bro. Who is it helping kreo streets traffic free, everywhere else?
@@SquidCena "[Upon introduction, the charge] Limited traffic entering the zone by 18 per cent during weekday charging hours, reduced congestion by 30 per cent, boosted bus travel in central London by 33 per cent, enabled 10 per cent of journeys to switch to walking, cycling and public transport" Pretty good, right?
Yeah we did have a large increase in traffic - Uber and delivery drivers, basically. And they pay for the congestion charge. Why would we turn down nearly £250m ($317m) a year in income for transit? The charge still discourages people who don't need to drive to central London - if anything, the increase in traffic shows how attractive the city is.
Some of the anti-congestion charge arguments I've heard are funny - it cannot simultaneously "drive away everyone from ever visiting downtown Manhattan" and also "it doesn't work because there will still be congestion".
@@JamesScantlebury the key difference here is where the revenue of those congestion tolls is invested. NYC, serving 3 states (NY, NJ, and CT) is a megapolis with increasingly expensive mass transit fares and a widening income gap (more than 20% of residents live in poverty). What’s generated in revenue by the MTA from us tax paying (state, federal, and municipal) residents of NYC goes to support the rest of New York State. We never get to see the fruits of our taxes even though they’re some of the highest in the nation. Delivery drivers already pay some of the highest tolls in the nation.
What “works” in the UK simply doesn’t work in the U.S. Honestly, what you think works in the U.K doesn’t even work in the U.K.
Wow that system might work in London no one wants to ride the New York City subways. In London you lack one thing that New York City has. All the black and brown people that are committing the crimes on the ground
@@JamesScantlebury You're not making much sense. Traffic around Central London, isn't great though. All your doing, is moving traffic from one place, to another. Please tell me how is that better. That's like moving thr homeless from the sidewalk to under the highway. Uber and delivery drivers are the only reason why? Sure, I'm sure most of the cars on the street aren't citizens going to work or other places. It's just mainly taxis and delivery drivers, go off somewhere else bro. 317million is literally nothing. Some of the pro congestion arguments I've seen are just nonsensical and ignore the fact that this will not solve anything, nor is this to benefit the people or solve any problems, but to just make money off of the people. I'm sure you love the government so much, don't you.
It’s OK for congestion pricing to go ahead IF TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS GO AHEAD.
I’m on for this, but people need to understand that they’re just paying for the damage to the city that they are making by driving
Catch up on all of the initiatives that are underway at the moment. You’ll see that there is a lot of improvements happening all over the city with the MTA. Congestion pricing would further fund these improvements.
@@dodygonzalez573Yet the agency will still cry broke since they don't know how to spend money properly. So many projects have gone over budget too many times at the expense of taxpayers.
How does driving damage a city? Please use your brain
@dodygonzalez573 The government already funds these "improvements", the MTA is greedy as heck, you're telling me they don't have enough money to fund projects already?
@atrailmckinley4786 That and they definitely are greedy, they have money yet make poor choices across the board. They want to use light rail instead of commuter train/subway in Brooklyn/Queens.
The MTA has the gaul to make this video.
The MTA NEEDS A WASTE AND INEFFICIENCY AUDIT BY AN OUTSIDE FIRM.
Does everyone notice how the MTA can’t even guarantee this would be the end of the ticket fare, toll increases? This is just the beginning for a new way they can gouge the working class of NYC for their stupid pet projects like a $30 million subway staircase in Times Squarez
Don't forget all of the "workers" that have to make hundreds of thousands in "overtime" lol
The FDR Drive, Long Island Expressway, and any busy highways that MTA buses use should get special bus lanes. So many express buses get stuck in traffic all the time, and that hasn’t been too different on many weekdays except select holidays when many people are away on travels.
i laughed so hard reading this
@@pokergaming4609 What's even funnier is that people have drove through Long Island Expressway HOV Lanes using dummies or anything to present "fake" passengers to beat highway congestions! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Special lanes? Are you stupid? FDR isn't a big highway at all. this'll only make traffic and gridlock worse.
These congestion pricing ads keep playing while I watch UA-cam . It is offensive and annoying to hear them lie .
Highway robbery ..
facts
So WTF are you doing about fare evasion and what are you actually doing with tax payer money? Reveal documents. Scammers all of you.
You guys should be a sham of yourself. Taxing us even more for something that we don't want
You don't want to be in a car in NYC? Good news: congestion pricing won't apply to you!
They had no choice. The Illegals were complaining about all the traffic compared to Honduras.
Killing the working class with taxes
the working class takes the subway
@@foisixes677 Subway prices have risen 🤡
The working class does not drive into mid and downtown Manhattan.
@@meli4157cozy Are you like 12? MTA workers drive mid to lower Manhattan to go into work everyday. Don't you realize?...
Add to that the tax cuts to billionaires that add trillions in debt like the $8T under Trump.
Shameful. Great injustice to hard working New Yorkers who struggle to make their ends meet. No New Yorker who resides in New York City should pay a dime to drive into Manhattan.
F YOUR CONGESTION PRICING! HOW ABOUT YOU START LOOKING AT YOUR INTERNAL WASTE? STARTING WITH YOUR CEO! HE EARNS ALMOST 400K A YEAR.
this is giving a new jerseyian
we can’t even leave a borough without paying a toll.
Let’s see what happens next in the future of congestion pricing in NYC, MTA. 🤔
Long overdue, happy to see this and I hope it's expanded as time goes on.
How about the MTA start collecting bus and train fares first please
“We need more of your money” is all I got from this.
Time to open the books at the mta
When will people wake up and realize that regular Passenger cars under various Supreme Court cases are not required to have license plates registration and inspection stickers anywhere in the country especially New York. Therefore I support regular Passenger cars taking off their plates hiding their plates covering their places in any way possible shape or form avoiding these frivolous and illegal taxes imposed against people who are justly and rightfully not subject to them . If it's costing people 20 billion a year how is taxing it to the tune of another billion dollars a year making it better for the people because it's not follow the money and see who's pockets it's going into
DINNING SHEDS are the congestion problem ! They are blocking traffic. Just walk down Mulberry Street . I counted 78 sheds in the bloody middle of the road. Follow the $$$ ?
It’s funny how they were supposed to take them down last year but still more than 50% of restaurants stil have them up
I hope more people will follow me as I saw this coming and left the city 5 years ago. I took my business out, my family out and I no longer offer any services to Manhattan. And if it continues I shall abandon NYC and lower westchester too...
If subway systems were more reliable, then yes, enforce congestion pricing. But an unsafe mass transit system + unreliable service? You’re taking advantage in ways that should make you question your moral compass.
But don't worry, if you just give them more of your hard earned money they'll fix everything, works every time 😂😂
When I say I speak for all MTA employees, I mean it. Even we don't want this.
Don’t worry bro. More money for overtime 😭
@@im100percentg definitely lol
SCAM
I wish more money was invested into the public transit in this city. It could be so much better and more people would actually ride it. More people on public transit means less cars, less traffic, and less accidents.
Stick it to MTA by taking the train to NYC so you don't have to pay for congestion pricing. That will show 'em!
Will this mean less bus platooning?
I’m for it. Can’t even take my car to the city because it’s always jam packed.
Mta 😃
They should give first responders a free pass to get to work and back each day.
This is why it’s best to just get out of NYC altogether
Cheap propaganda
Perma ban all non essential vehicles from entering Manhattan, this the only way. There is no solution, the city offers needs of service, hospitality, entertainment and more on every corner, everything is in walking distance. Congestion pricing is a band aid on a massive wound, you can not deter the effects of population growth, congestion and poor design by taxing the working class. This is a massive failure, and clear example of a poor leadership and greed. The rate of travel in an vehicles is far slower than public transportation or simply walking, thus the benefits of a car are deemed useless and ineffective. The MTA has plenty of money, to invest in modernizing and futurizing all of its infrastructure, creating faster travel times, improved stations, larger box cars, and more. This motion will not "unlock a better nyc" it will unlock "more wealth" that will sit and do nothing.
Hopefully this can get started soon! It’s going to be something that New Yorkers will fall in love with and couldn’t imagine going back
No one's going to fall in love with this. People are just going to avoid going to the city. The only people that are gonna love it. Are you stupid tree huggers. Don't worry once the empty blows. That money they will start taxing bikes to ride on bike Lanes.
Hell no. Are you crazy?
Unless the pricing scales with income this is merely a fine for being poor.
The MTA should hire someone who really knows how to operate public transportation (from Japan, Russia, China, UAE) and fire all those lazy workers. Literally, all of their workers are lazy; they are doing nothing but chatting and walking around. And 20 billion is very good money; it is probably enough for funding and hiring real specialists from overseas.
Cyclist should pay also
Exactly. If cars have to pay, then bikes, delivery ebikes, etc should have to fund the MTA as well 😂
@@mementhusiastwhy? They don’t cause traffic?
@@meli4157cozy you'd be surprised....
@@transitmanvex There's no surprise actually: you'd need way more bicycles that cars to have a congested lane of traffic.
why? MTA wants more funds to mismanage
Fix the subways, make them safe, clean them and I will take the subway.
They need to cover the city budget and they find the way. Money that they spent for nonsense reasons.
I don't have much but I wouldn't give what I have in life now compared to what I used to have and when I lived in New York it's a matter what you want you want to live life or you want to struggle and kill each other for a buck while staying New York then
We've been waiting for this since Bloomberg days. Let's get it done.
Its all TLC plates ban them
Oh here we go again BRAINWASHING 😮
Not like parking already rips you off in NYC
Not like the tolls already rip you off
Hilarious that the mta is releasing this
Bring back Andy Byford.
What a load of crap
Congested prices will only help nyc new york suburbs are going to enter new York very limited mass transit
the cost is too high, all of the generated income purely going to MTA while telling all commuters to take other transit systems that receive NOTHING so how does that work? Overload public transit systems that also need funding. Seems like one giant cash grab. Especially cuz this congestion pricing is ON TOP of already increasing fare hikes. None of it makes sense. There is no equity in this plan - just greedy MTA and greedy NYC.
I don't know what it will take car drivers to understand that their mode of transportation is outrageously inefficient for the number of people it serves.
It's a matter of geometry: Cars are *vastly* less space-efficient than trains. And that matters in the densest city in the country, where space is a premium.
@@BritainRittenI don't know what it will take for people like you to realize that not everyone has access to a train. We are a nation that is dependent on interstate commerce. Not everyone can just ditch cars and hop on a train.
All this will do is make traffic worse outside the zone in places like the south bronx and thus pollution will increase. This is not an equitable solution at all. The MTA should not be wasting the billions they already get and spend the money properly rather than continue to squeeze taxpayers even more due to their mismanagement.
I don't drive but congestion pricing is environmental injustice and will not benefit most New Yorkers
Metro North, the NYC Subway, and LIRR are all part of the MTA. I don't understand your complaint that the money won't go to other transit systems.
i can't understand how a grown adult rides a bicycle or doesn't know how to drive at the age of 25.
Pretty sad and pathetic
No we don’t need congestion pricing
Money for the corporation
Then clean up the stinky buses and trains!!!
How about reversing all the vision zero nonsense that you guys brought here from Sweden
Tax New Yorkers more, for reasons.🖕
get your money back
Why are taxis charged $1.25, Ubers $2.50, and normal cars $15? Explain that bullsh-t to me please. All of those vehicles emit the same amount of CO2, cause the same amount of traffic, etc. This is not about all those virtuous reasons you acclaim, it's simply about control, forcing people to take an unsafe, slow, unreliable mode of transportation, and, of course, extracting every last cent out of the populous. And the MTA is so bad, in fact, that people would rather waste hours in traffic than to take it.
Real
most of the time it is not congested crook!
I need to move somewhere else. This city is so screwed up…
Well, the answer is easy to makeup for MTAs financial mismanagement. All this stuff in the video is a farce.
This is a move that is long overdue not only in New York City, but across several other major cities with extremely bad traffic congestion, particularly Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago. I personally believe that the lawsuits going against this plan should be dropped by the courts.
MTA shouldn't exist.
Love this. Thank you MTA for going on the offense for this essential program-decades in the making! As a lifelong resident of the Manhattan CBD I can't wait for the gridlock relief, faster buses, better subways, cleaner air, and safer streets.
Lol I'm sure all that'll happen if you just give the MTA more money 😂
If the price was a little bit lower then I would hop on board
I will never understand why anyone would ever bike in the city
Because that's a mode of transportation that is cheap, accessible to most people, offers a quick door-to-door trip, and that allows a huge flow of traffic in dense cities.
Because it's a city? Have you ever seen Europe? Bikes are probably the most efficient mode of transportation in cities.
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this shit a scam bro
The answer is that NYC does NOT need congestion pricing. The tolls for the bridges and tunnels are expensive enough.
Haven’t seen bro in a while 🙏
If people don't want to pay the toll, don't drive into manhattan.
No, actually it's not expensive enough. With all the fares and fees and insurance you pay, you are merely paying *towards* the cost of you driving in, but you are not yet paying *for* the cost of you driving in. Car infrastructure is far more expensive per user - not to mention all the other costs in terms of wasted land and polluted air/water that everyone has to pay for your convenience.
Take the train or pay the price. Simple.
@kirkrotger9208 What a dumb comment. There are people that have to drive into Manhattan because they don't have other means to get into Manhattan.
Also all congestion pricing will do is take traffic from a wealthy part of the city and move it into poorer areas like the south bronx. That is exactly what happened in London. How is it fair that a wealthy part of the city may get less pollution but poorer parts of the city will get worse air pollution? That is environmental injustice and a violation of environmental laws hence all the lawsuits.
Not to mention costs of goods and services will just go up in Manhattan as the costs will be passed onto the consumer. I don't drive but I hope this gets killed in the courts. The MTA has a history of mismanagement and wasting money so I don't even think they would handle the money properly anyways
Half the bridges aren’t tolled
Congestion pricing: a way to force you back onto the subways and buses since nobody wants to ride them anymore. What happens if everybody just decided to walk everywhere??? Y’all gonna charge people to walk too???
How dare u Make Sense of This Dumb Shit..
You don't seem to get it. We don't want you driving in. Come on the train or just don't come. We won't miss you the subways and buses since nobody wants to ride them anymore.
2 million+ use them every day - still far more than the number of drivers.
Actually your wrong in this time and age Subway and buses are fighting back with passengers number rising really quickly car are just in way of a lot of thingd
@@BritainRittenSo you don't want people to contribute to the city's economy by not coming if they have no other means to get here. What a stupid comment. Not everybody can just hop on a train. Transit deserts exist in this city
@@Atrail_Mckinley4786drive to a train station and take the train. It’s not hard. Also driving in the city is not good for the economy. You know parking spaces are subsidized right? (Like by a lot)
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