Are you kidding me?
President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to New York City’s congestion pricing system, which thins traffic and funds mass transit by imposing high tolls on drivers entering some parts of Manhattan.
Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most passenger cars entering Manhattan neighborhoods south of Central Park. In its early days, transit officials say the toll has brought modest but measurable traffic reductions.
Finding new lows, eh?
It’s a bummer that New York City has to fund welfare for states that hate them so much, like Kentucky, Mississippi, and Alabama. If that weren’t the case it would be much easier to fund transit improvements.
Those states would be worse off if states like NY or CA decided to secede one day, though I’m aware that’s nearly impossible to do. What’s crazy to me is that the states that contribute most are the ones most shitted on for being “too liberal.”
If NY were run by MAGA, I bet the economy would tank and it wouldn’t be able to contribute anything to the states that are already poor.
This is the dumbest thing… Why should I have to walk past disgusting vehicles belching exhaust while going nowhere?
We should just ban personal vehicles in Manhattan it makes no sense when this city has the best public transit in the US… ditch car infrastructure, and build cheap $900 a month apartments that people can sustainably live in.
States rights
To bow to our Republican monarch
You know…I kinda think it’s time we tell him to pound sand. Fucking seriously, who’s going to enforce it? The defunded letter agencies?
Probably, then when they don’t they’ll blame those agencies, I’m not sure why else other than to create divide.
Just add it to Mayor Adams’s quid pro quo list. Much like I bet he’s going to run for governor on the “I’ll pardon Trump” platform.
What authority do the feds have here? More nonsense to demoralize and distract.
The interstate bridges and tunnels that go into New York City are owned and run by the Port Authority, which has federal oversight in addition to oversight from the states of New Jersey and New York.
What does this have to do with the downtown congestion pricing?
The bridges and tunnels are where they collect the tolls for people coming into Manhattan. Also, on the ferries, which are also run by the Port Authority
So no authority
It sounds like they need to collect the toll right after the tunnel then.
None.
How the FUCK has he the authority to do that?
Isn’t Mayor Adams now Trump’s bitch because he ordered the corruption chargers dropped?
Federal government has to approve tolls on interstates and Trump revoked the approval given by the previous administration. Though the other poster isn’t exactly wrong with the mayor Adams thing. That’s probably how they’ll ensure the toll booths don’t just move 2 ft off the interstate onto city/state property
States rights, amirite?
This post (understandably, somewhat) glances over cheeto calling himself King when he declared this on twatter
Yeah it’s a reference to the president’s day protests. He’s mocking you.
Funny how they run on this mythic yesteryear of the fifties… yet neglect the notion that the fifties were funded by the highest wealth taxes, street cars were everywhere, and there were MASSIVE public works projects EVERYWHERE.
I don’t get it either, we do it in the UK too.
In a statement, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced the federal government has rescinded its approval of the program, calling it “slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners.”
At first I was wondering when Sean P Diddy Combs was appointed Transportation Secretary. I get that he is accused of sexual assaults which is a great qualification but still…
Yes! Trum…err Elon is coming for the DMV! Finally! Maybe it will be an app that sends pictures of me in the shower to the people who make our license plates in prison.
Will they be firing all cops, mailmen and firefighters?
Will they be firing all cops, mailmen and firefighters?
Just the mailmen and firefighters. Without police, who would be around to
beat up the minorities and protestersenforce the law?
Hey NYC drivers, just purposely cause traffic. Sit in your car in the middle of the road - by the tens of thousands. You let him take one thing from you, and you’re giving him permission to take everything from you.
No matter how they spin it, main reason for doing congestion pricing was to fight how slow both emergency response and mass transit was getting.
Literally killing people, rich and poor alike.
Is Move over law applied rigorosly? This question is not intended to discount overbuilt car infrastructure being overused.
Where do you move over to when the whole road is full?
The bus lane or the bike lane, of course.
…Oh wait, car-supremacist fuckwads have been ripping those out, too.
Last time I was in Manhattan, walking to Penn station, I passed an ambulance with lights and sirens trying to get through. 6 blocks later I looked back and saw I was now 2 blocks ahead of it.
