Gov. Hochul is latest of many NY politicians to get cold feet on congestion pricing
to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday.on Wednesday in a move that ends the decadeslong dream of reining in Manhattan’s gridlock by tolling drivers who enter the borough via Midtown and areas below it.
“I’m feeling betrayed,” said Schwartz, 76. “She turns a 180 and really screws the public. This is certainly no profile in courage.”Back in 1971, Mayor John Lindsay weighed the idea of banning cars entirely from a stretch of Manhattan dubbed “the red zone.” Only taxis and buses would have been allowed in. Signs were even manufactured and posted on the streets, though they were covered, Schwartz recalled in a recent interview with.
“I think the mayor didn’t play ball…with Shelly Silver,” explained Schwartz. “And so he never kissed the ring.”On Wednesday, Hochul once again put the idea on the shelf, saying implementing congestion pricing “risks too many unintended consequences.” That sounded familiar to Schwartz. We polled our Instagram followers asking whether they agreed with the decision to halt congestion pricing and the results were close: Of the nearly 1,500 people who voted, 43% said the tolls should be halted and 57% said they should be implemented.
All the construction planned for the triple-cantilevered section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway this year has been completed — but eventually the city still needs to move forward with a rehabilitation of the dilapidated roadway.
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