What causes congestion is many not using the subway because of ineffective law enforcement making it unsafe.
The state Chamber of Commerce couldn’t have come up with a better strategy to attract businesses to move out of NYC.
“Will the congestion toll cause congestion? Stay tuned.”
Companies who deliver should decline to deliver below 60th street. Every store, restaurant and residence who order material to support their businesses and life should have to come to Jersey to pick up their products.
Traffic studies have shown the toll will increase costs for those who must or choose to drive a motor vehicle in lower Manhattan, but IT WILL NOT REDUCE CONGESTION. The individual personal drivers and the companies who employ drivers who choose or must drive into lower Manhattan will eat the costs and in some instances (delivery costs) pass the costs off to lower Manhattan customers.
The whole thing is a scam, a taking from motor vehicle drivers to pay for the financially failing MTA transit system, a system the drivers don’t use. I consider what they are doing a crime. The MTA is full of waste and corruption and even correcting for that the fares are too low. The pols of New York just cannot admit the truth. They just keep proping up the corrupt wastefull financially failing MTA.
I thought New York was complaining not enough people came back after the “pandemic” and revenue and business were suffering. Which is it?
Bkmk
Deep State is cool with that.