Comment on There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere.

Teanut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I live inside the congestion pricing zone.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And you have a car?? In Manhattan??? Are you made of money?

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right?! I know several people in Manhattan (who are pretty well off tbh), and even they don’t own a car. Why would you in Manhattan?!? How privileged does this person have to be? People are unable to afford groceries right now and they’re complaining that they might have to pay a few bucks because they don’t want to take a train

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      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Those people who can’t afford groceries shouldn’t be complaining either. After all, they’re not literally starving and there are starving children in Africa…

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    • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, just made of privilege

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  • Teanut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I did notice this news article that mentions:

    New Yorkers who live within the Congestion Relief Zone will not be charged to drive or park around the area. They will only be charged once they leave and cross back into the zone.

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    • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not familiar with NYC, but isn’t this exactly the opposite of their goals? If you are staying within the congestion zone, you should be taking a different form of transportation. It’s only when leaving that area that you have a (potentially) valid reason to take your own car.

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      • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Most congestion pricing schemes rely only on tolling the boundary and generally target central business districts with little internal traffic. The technology is there to install more internal tracking of traffic, but you’d probably push up against privacy groups and the deployment of the tech would be a lot more expensive.

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      • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is kind of where my thinking was at. Although I don’t know how you’d implement taxing that.

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