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pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
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> On 2025-01-06, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you don't want to be burned to death, raped, assaulted, robbed or
>> pushed in front of a subway train in NYC you will have to pay $9 now
>> to drive your car in Manhattan.
>>
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>> Congestion toll takes effect, costing NYC commuters $9 to drive below
>> 60th Street - as drivers rip plan and trash Hochul By Rich Calder,
>> Priscilla DeGregory, Georgett Roberts and Hannah Fierick Published
>> Jan. 5, 2025, 12:00 a.m. ET 
>>
>> 1.3K Comments
>> Motorists heading into some of Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods have
>> begun shelling out a first-in-the-nation $9 congestion toll - a
>> controversial levy critics contend will drive people out of Gotham
>> and devastate the local economy. 
>>
>> The scheme officially took effect at midnight on Sunday, meaning
>> drivers entering the city below 60th Street will now have to pay $9
>> during peak hours - 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
>> on weekends - and $2.25 for off-peak hours. 
>>
>> During peak hours, large trucks will pay $21.60, small trucks $14.40
>> and motorcycles $4.50. 
>>
>> A general view of heavy vehicle traffic on the FDR Drive at E81st
>> Street in New York, NY on July 16, 2022. 8
>> Motorists heading into Lower and Midtown Manhattan are now forced to
>> shell out a first-in-the-nation $9 congestion toll. Christopher
>> Sadowski One of the first motorists to pay the toll, a man who
>> declined to give his name, seem resigned to pay the price. 
> 
> This is just another nail in the NYC coffin.
> It's amazing how ignorant democrat leadership is.


    And NYC was so much better under Republican Bloomberg?