Hochul’s congestion pricing scam has only one – Latest News
Gov. Kathy Hochul considers her congestion-pricing scheme a enormous success, however the metropolis Health Department simply uncovered the scam by blowing up one of the principle supposed advantages.
“Measured pollution levels were not significantly different because of congestion pricing,” it reported Friday.
Worse, the activists at South Bronx Unite have revealed preliminary knowledge suggesting that congestion pricing has worsened air high quality of their neighborhood, with added site visitors as vehicles and so forth. keep away from the tolls.
That’s precisely what the federal environmental review predicted long earlier than Hochul imposed the $9 (and rising!) tolls— i.e. that general site visitors wouldn’t drop, however only shift from the zone’s ritzy Manhattan nabes into rougher outer-borough areas.
The only “good” it actually did was permit Hochul to impose a new tax (below one other title) to bail out the MTA with out upsetting any of the particular pursuits that feed off the company — whereas additionally successful factors with elite car-hating donors.
Of course she’s completely satisfied to call it a large “success.”
