Congestion pricing by the #’s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering the zone daily
* Delays in Holland tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* Broadway theater attendance up 12%
* Subway ridership up 7%
* Bus ridership up 12%
* LIRR ridership up 8%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
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Why is everything in percentages except the number of cars entered?
Last year there are 250 or so auto fatalities in New York City and this year they're 87 so far. it is a drop by a third. But of the 250 fatalities last year, 11 happened in Midtown South which includes the area affected by congestion pricing. This year there are 7. so the
Yet, public transportation ridership is well below levels seen prior to the riots of 2020 despite the first in nation feudal manor taxation scheme.
Why would we invest in a system that consumer preference has clearly rejected?
let's not forget that #marklevine called in to support the driving tax from the back of his taxpayer-funded limo!
Talk about hypocrisy!
A success for only certain wealthy people at the expense of those least able to afford it. Just a horrific injustice.
How about restaurant and retail receipts? Up or down? Why is public transit up by so little??
I'd would want more economic data before claiming it a success or a failure.
It's cars that kill us
Road fatality result is stellar - and to be expected from the science
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Stellar: @NYC congestion pricing's 32% road death reduction or ~38 est. fewer dead people
Fewer fatalities compares with fewer deaths after traffic management strategies in Stockholm (30-35%), Paris (35%), Singapore (25-30%)
Remember when Sticky’s blamed confession pricing for them closing in midtown?
that’s why your board stuck its neck out, took heat from many corners, and voted multiple times to approve #congestionpricing. Fiscally responsible, civically reasonable, a sharing of responsibility for the health of New York.
Also, why is the traffic on 11th Avenue worse????
You’re a retard. Parking revenue down, tax revenue down, tourism revenue down.
I thought it is no longer happening?
This is beside the point, but I used to have a lot of anxiety when walking around NYC because of the traffic and car horns. I'm completely calm walking around now and am enjoying the city in a way I never did before.
This is great news but because the average American doesn’t understand just how many people take mass transit in NYC they don’t understand that the 7% subway, 12% bus & 8% LIRR increase massively makes up for the 67k less drivers. We as political analyst need to account for that.
Can you give the same statistics in absolute terms? # of deaths, Broadway attendees etc?
And 
business is up ~ Broadway, restaurants, retail, transit users, office workers
Honking is down 70%. Also posted that traffic did not increase on get-arounds outside Manhattan.
business is up ~ Broadway, restaurants, retail, transit users, office workers
Honking is down 70%. Also posted that traffic did not increase on get-arounds outside Manhattan. 
mta.info/agency/new-yor.
In 2023, the New York subway carried 3.6 million and the bus system carried 1.2 million people per day.
7% of train and 12% of bus is 250,000 and 140,000 riders.
Even if only 25% of this is in the zone, that more than makes up for reduced cars.
Thank you. Traffic deaths down because ’s constituents won’t pay and therefore not running us over.
G day Sir. Please call it what it is. A tax. And a tax is never a victory. casual diners like my wife and myself no longer drive to the city. We stay in LI and Queens.
Imagine fixing traffic and funding better transit and saving lives—at the same time. Congestion pricing is doing the work.
you forgot the most important things : Mark Gorton can ride his bike like he used to in his NJ cul de sac, park his car in a $1000/month garage, not be in traffic when he wants to drive to his country home and he also gets to make money from tech delivery and car companies!
There is less traffic, indeed. And like anything else, the wealthy are not really inconvenienced at all.
Now there’s more unlicensed and unregistered e-bikes and mopeds crowding the streets!
Yet our subway is worse than ever & the most dangerous I’ve experienced in 35 yrs
Bus times up 3% and some up as high as 25% suggests there are a great deal of routes that are slower. Evening SIM busses have been a disaster on Lex/East side!
How about economy for local restaurants and shops. Would be good to analyze also.
more #ActivistMath. Broadway theater attendance (lol)? Traffic deaths down? What are traffic deaths in the zone vs out of the zone? Most importantly are tax receipts of businesses within the zone up or down and how have businesses outside the zone fared?
What are likely negative consequences for the common people that are being completely ignored in this one perspective analysis.
But, but our “King” opposed it!
As did Fox News.
I wonder if they’ll cover its huge success?
I don't agree with congestion pricing even though it benefits me personally in some ways but not in others.
Bragging about pricing tax paying New Yorkers out of access to certain areas is Jim Crow/Apartheid but this time based on class/income.....
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They increased the bus and rail fares too - so capital improvements for MTA is still on the back of commuters. This is some cherry picking.
And how is that money effectively and efficiently improving mass transit? Let's see it before we declare congestion pricing a victory.
I was against it at first but love it now. My commute home from Connecticut to Manhattan every evening is so much quicker now.
It should have been advertised as a way to reduce traffic by getting poor people off the roads and a lot more people would have been on board.
People are just saying out of Manhattan if they don’t live there and don’t need to be there.
There's no problem that can't be solved if we just take more money out of your pocket
Let’s see you run that city once you close Rikers & chase out all the working people
Can someone explain to me the correlation between Broadway attendance and congestion pricing? This is often repeated but I don't understand how one would lead to the other.
I swear all TransAlt backed politicians are saying the same thing recently. The hivemind strikes back.
The subway ridership ##s are for the entire system. How many people are coming into the zone on the subway? If you’re not telling us, there must be a reason.
I will never understand why democrats are desperate to make everybody ride public transportation. It’s miserable.
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My jaw dropped when i saw this....a very popular cheese store in gramercy. Another congestion tax casualty
Why not make it $100 to get into Manhattan? Make it an island for the wealthy only. Would be super quiet, right?
So your happy less people are going to Manhattan...thats not a good thing.
In NYC the past few days. Lower East Side, first time in some years. The change is extremely noticeable. Streets have cyclists and scooters safely using the streets. AND! Many streets shut down on LES, now teeming with residents and visitors. Incredible..
is driven around NYC in a taxpayer funded vehicle by a taxpayer funded chauffeur. So please sit down, Mark.
Congestion tax burdens the most heavily taxed people in all of America, in a city with the highest cost of living.
Shame on you!
I do not believe these numbers are true, but even if they are, I still wanted to gone
Judging by the modest increases in transit ridership, versus massive decreases in traffic, people are just opting out of Manhattan altogether. Of course, nothing could please Manhattan’s rich white reprobates more. Plus you lied about Broadway’s smaller than usual seasonal bump.
Total bull 
Your numbers happen to line up with… summer!
Btw it’s the working poor that can no longer afford to drive not Manhattan so they have to take train or bus.
Nice $500m tax on NYers 
Your numbers happen to line up with… summer!
Btw it’s the working poor that can no longer afford to drive not Manhattan so they have to take train or bus.
Nice $500m tax on NYers 
The ridiculous whiners and naysayers in the comments are why we can never have nice things. I’m glad New York plowed through this bullshit opposition, and got this done. It’s time for Los Angeles to do the same.
Yet blocks and blocks of empty stores line the streets now occupied with junkies and mental cases.
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Fuck you. These numbers are bullshit. Traffic and congestion is up uptown. You’ve made it so only rich people can own a car.
You never cared about fucking congestion, it was just about taxing people for mass transit.
If so successful then NJ should charge an equal amount to those leaving zone heading west
How much more have people had to pay since then for having a job in Manhattan that can't be accessed via a highway?
should be no need then for that arrogant bastard Janno to raise the fares
Translated, we found a way to keep the riffraff out and make them pay for it. Score for the NYC elite.
Again. So there is zero negative impact? All wins? The city which can’t get shit right to save its life finally came up with a program that has absolutely zero negative side effects. Yeah sure.
Whatever bankrupts your corrupt shithole city faster. You guys are the biggest source of Idiocy, racism, terrorism and in Un-American values in the entire country. Everyone else hates you and doesn’t want to live there and celebrates your failures. GFO NYC miscreant.
Parasites acting like their legalized highway robbery is good for the community
Based on these numbers, I suspect a lot of businesses are suffering. I'm honestly fine if NYC wants to become an isolated place for the wealthy, but I guarantee this is not working out for everyone. If I lived in Manhattan, I would probably also want to keep the riff-raff out.
*Democrats lie as easily as they breathe.
*Congestion pricing is discriminatory & illegal.
*New York is NOT underfunded. It is mismanaged by THIEVES! Democrats steal taxpayer funds 24/7.
Ask the business owners how their numbers are doing !! But at least you get chauffeured around 10 mins faster
You can’t prove any of this is because of congestion pricing. Traffic is even worse because the city created congestion
Half a billion and the F train is still chronically delayed and every station smelling like piss.
How about trash tax, weigh all trash from households and tax them?? Stupid ideas can look genius for short time; guess how many businesses are leaving NYC or decreasing their activity or hirings
Charging NYer’s to pay for failed policies and to fund the MTA is not a successful venture
For the part who promotes to work so hard for the working class, you such pretty bad at keeping costs down for those who work in the city.
So you have to extort money from people to make them take public transportation instead of being compassionate and cleaning up the public transportation? Good plan . Fuck them taxpayers, although it should be said that it seems the majority of taxpayers are retarded.
Hypocrite! You ride around in a taxpayer funded chauffeured SUV even testifying before the MTA hearings on Congestion TAX from the back of the same SUV. Of course you love Congestion TAX. You can sleep in more & get through NYC faster. How many tickets your suv get we paid for?
