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Report: 85,000 More Damn Cars will Enter Manhattan’s Core Daily in 2023

This is the dawning of the age of Carpocalypse.

Dave Colon

October 18, 2021

Report: 85,000 More Damn Cars will Enter Manhattan’s Core Daily in 2023

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Study: A Road Pricing Scheme That Actually Cuts Driving

Participants who received cash for choosing modes of transport that are most beneficial to society ended up driving far less than study participants who did not get the reward.

Kea Wilson

October 13, 2021

Cartoon

A Round and a Roundy: Rich Manhattanites Aren’t the Problem (Just Ask Them!)

Every time there's another bitch session about congestion pricing, the narrative hardens: Every person who drives a car thinks everyone else is the reason Manhattan is such a traffic-choked, sclerotic, pollution-filled mess. Our cartoonist begs to differ.

Streetsblog

October 6, 2021

Congestion Pricing

Opinion: Congestion Pricing Does Not Begin to Compensate Society for the Harm and Violence Caused by Cars

Much of the coverage of congestion pricing focuses on the need for a toll to reduce congestion or pollution. And that's important. But drivers need to know that they do far more harm than merely causing traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Put simply: Cars destroy the human living environment in the city.

Mark Gorton

October 5, 2021

Congestion Pricing

Data: The Very Few New Jersey Commuters Who Will Pay Congestion Toll Are Much Richer

In the Garden State, the elite meet to bleat.

Dave Colon

October 5, 2021

Congestion Pricing

KOMANOFF: Yellows and Ubers Deserve Their Own Congestion-Pricing Policy Lane

Charging the for-hires for each passenger-minute in the Manhattan taxi zone is quintessential congestion pricing — and more effective against Manhattan congestion than the MTA’s one-size-fits-all FHV surcharge, our expert says.