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[–] romamix@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Looks like the congestion fees will be used to cover the public transportation expenses, so wealthy people will be sponsoring the poor people transportation options.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean, that's great, but isn't this still seggregating people?

Sorry, I'm not even familiar with how NY works, but as a generalization, I think that if you put a fee, you're not necessarily going to remove cars from the streets, but select what cars will be on the streets.

Or maybe this does work, it's been succesfully done on other fields, like tobacco consumption. Idk, I just feel like these things are unfair somehow, I hope it helps tho.

[–] hamid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Poor people do not drive into Manhattan. Without congestion pricing it is too expensive.

already* too expensive ...

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