Monday, July 24, 2023

122 won't do

 

AMNY 

The MTA has received over 100 formal requests for exemptions from congestion pricing, and enacting all of them would carve out virtually everyone from the impending toll to enter Manhattan’s central business district.

That’s hardly an exaggeration. Some of the categories submitted for consideration are exceptionally broad, including residents of New York State, auto commuters from New Jersey, Manhattan residents making less than $147,500 in income, parents, and even “passenger cars.”

The list, which was previously reported by Streetsblog in May, was publicized Wednesday at the inaugural meeting of the Traffic Mobility Review Board, the internal MTA body tasked with devising toll rates, rules, and exemptions for New York’s congestion pricing program, which will levy a toll on motorists entering Manhattan south of 60th Street.

The program, approved by New York lawmakers in 2019, aims to incentivize riding mass transit into Manhattan instead of driving, in a bid to reduce punishing traffic in the central business district, drop carbon emissions and improve air quality, and raise money to improve the MTA’s infrastructure.

The plan has received full federal approval and is set to go into effect by the middle of next year. But before that happens, the complex array of rules governing the program must be codified by the six-member TMRB amid wide-scale lobbying for exemptions by interested parties, as well as looming litigation from New Jersey.

About 100 people packed the boardroom at the MTA’s lower Manhattan headquarters for the TMRB meeting, with many more locked out due to capacity constraints. The largest contingent present was yellow cab and for-hire vehicle drivers, who are seeking a full exemption to prevent what they say will be a third congestion tax on the financially-strained, mostly-immigrant workforce.

Others are hyperspecific and tailored, like Long Island residents battling cancer or 9/11-related illnesses, residents of the Waterside Plaza complex east of the FDR Drive in Midtown, and vehicles “whose manufacturers participate in the ‘circular economy.'”

Still others looking to get out of the toll include artists, musicians, farmers, judges, diplomats, retired cops, veterans, undertakers, senior citizens, persons of color, members of the International Union of Operating Engineers, small business owners, CUNY students, people who park their cars in garages, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, people attending religious services, and residents of most places in the tri-state area.


 

31 comments:

georgetheatheist said...

Clue me in please. This "central" business district extends from 60th street ALL the way south to the Battery? What's so "central" about that?

Anonymous said...

Well, who’d have thought? A bunch of car totalitarians looking for more free stuff.
Can I continue to pollute your air and store my big chunk of metal on your streets for free?

GopGeorge said...

Something tells me that another tax cut for the rich will stop all of this.

Anonymous said...

Tolls in the tri State region are a unfair tax on the middle class.
The Left doesn’t just Want to Censor you on Social Media. It Also Wants to be able to Close Your Bank Accounts, charge you differant mortgage rates and prices, take your car and gas stoves away. These woke institutions are replacing financial credit with social credit.

Anonymous said...

Dear Governor Murphy please protect us from these Woke lunatics !

Kitara said...

Thank you former mayor DeBlazio and city council for handing over the NYC taxi industry to corporate monopolies.

Anonymous said...

NYC Electurds to the sheeple crying over the tolls - "I don't mind cause you don't matter!"

Anonymous said...

Has anyone mentioned karma? Keep Voting D LoL...

Anonymous said...

So far Hochul want to ban Gas stoves close power plants without having alternatives online, give Sex worker free health care plus dental for free? Next, they will ban gas water heaters. Do all these politicians live in another world? they keep saying we are growing the middle class when actually they are eliminating it

The more people they put on social programs the more control they have over them. Hochul also puts migrant over NYers this should never happen .AMERICANS First no matter what. All these progressive politicians have to be voted out.

Anonymous said...

They want us to be the next California 2.0.

Anonymous said...

Bus lanes, Bike lanes, restaurant sheds, wonder why there is congestion? Truck deliveries middle of the street, this is all created by our wise politicians. Tolls, speed cameras, redlight cameras congestion pricing all for revenue on the backs of motorists, DEATH OF A CITY, BUSINESS IS LEAVING.

Anonymous said...

Buh bye New York my flight leaves tomorrow !

Anonymous said...

I’m sure Hochul will exclude herself & her flunkies from this “up charge, so the working people will essentially be forced to ride public transit with the homeless, mentally ill, criminals, illegal aliens, druggies, …another reason to leave the city and never return.

Anonymous said...

How much do we have to yell before they realize no one wants congestion pricing besides the psycho cyclists? We gotta vote them out this November.

Anonymous said...

Exposing truth is the first step to change in any situation.

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile, Trump caught Jaywaking in Mira Largo...FBI investigating

Anonymous said...

I’ll be voting for RFK Jr. next year as a FU to the WH occupant.
It’s my only 2024 vote that will count, since voting for Orange Man Bad in the state of New York is meaningless, this state is controlled by Marxists.

Anonymous said...

Does that means that DEI policies of the MTA are DOA?
Woke DEI Officers Are Getting FIRED Everywhere!!!
Let’s hope they are purged from all sectors of society.
Trump's SCOTUS appointments: the gift that keeps on giving.

Anonymous said...

Have the Dems Gone Too Far?
People need to be informed of the malevolence of the totalitarian left and how they are using compassion as a weapon. What makes evil people truly evil is their ability to convince the world they are the good people. Along with their ability to convince the world that the good people, are evil.

Anonymous said...

Won't matter to Vickie Paladino, the Queens Karen. She and her family don't believe in paying tolls or being accountable under the law.

JFKJuniorsHat said...

@"I’ll be voting for RFK Jr. next year as a FU to the WH occupant."

Take a hike, freeloader!

Anonymous said...

@"Have the Dems Gone Too Far?
People need to be informed of the malevolence of the totalitarian left and how they are using"

Thank you, he/she/it car totalitarian.

Anonymous said...

Watching Libs squirm for their overlords is hilarious.

Anonymous said...

@ "Watching Libs squirm"
Yes like the MASSIVE New Scandal Involving a Hunter Biden Attorney.
Too bad this kind of corruption is now normal and expected.
Nothing will happen, nothing will change, God help us all.

Anonymous said...

Queens Crap Reader...
A wise man once said, that in order to change a leftist mind, you need to give them exactly what they want. New Yorkers are now subject to the effects of the dangerous and harmful Marxist policies they endorsed at the voting booth and we are now witnessing the many real life developments. It's kinda wholesome, if you think about it.

Anonymous said...

@“ Watching Libs squirm for their overlords ”
Overloads? Have you been on some weird medication? Please have your nurse wheel you back to the bingo parlor.

Anonymous said...

Did the Totalitarian Left go to far ?
Is this The End of Bunter and the Hiden Crime Cartel, will the GOP Rebound and Truth Flourish?

Ned said...

It’s going to be rammed down out throats.
The city has already blown a billion dollars on illegals alone. 1/2 of the females of this group are pregnant, the bill for that is going to be even more annually and perpetually when you count the lifetime of Medicaid, EBT cards, vouchers and other welfare doles that will be needed.

Keep voting democrat stupid sheep NYC voters, stop crying because you asked for this.
Especially this crazy stupid woke mayor who now tells us god is telling him to do these things. God talkes to him etc. (its all the drugs he does in the private room gay clubs at night)

Hmmmm, how's this:--"Club Zero Bond" with the private back rooms and dancing the night away with all the boy's & trannys in his $1800 pointy Italian shoes as his city of 9 million people goes straight to hell. Yeah, I heard all about it, why isnt the media reporting on this bullshit! Why no whistle blower?
What a SOB moYE#%%@^@er!! Worst mayor in American history including that liberal shithole called California.

Just wait till another "crisis" is declaired and the city comes for private homes to house all these useless anchor baby makers breaking into our country and being rewarded with a ebt card, backrub & welcome mat at the bus station and airports at night.
People are not paying attention to where the city is getting all these new crazy woke ideas from.
Awnswer: NORTHERN EUROPE, Its called scandnavian socialism. (also known as demoocratic socialism and other bullshit names because its actually communism.

I can hear it now, just like in Sweden and Amsterdam
"Our records indicate only 4 people live in this 2 story house"
"We beleive this is a waste of living space, 4 people dont need all this room"
"Accept our offer to convert make your basement and garage a legal sec 8 lifetime contracted apartments for poor family of 6+. You will receive the work, labor and permits free of charge. Accept or be taxed to death.
Now even if you say GTF outta here several of your neighbors strapped for $$ will accept. Your property and qualiety of life will be ground zero in the center of a slum.

This will be coming, remember I said it first !!
Thats it for now my bloods boiling today I need a ice cold Reingold

-Ned
www.nra.org

Anonymous said...

Well I’ll be a son of a bitch! Trump was right!

Anonymous said...

@“ Watching Libs squirm for their overlords is hilarious.”
Stay off the drugs doofus!

Anonymous said...

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

George Carlin