Has anyone else noticed how SOOOO far behind we are in public transportation compared to Japan? I'm a Floridian who's never left the country simply because I'm poor. Like...poverty poor. But I am very much in love with watching everything and anything that has to do with Asian culture and seeing how people get around in Japan is just absolutely mind blowing. They have it right.
Same as it ever was, unfortunately. We don't prioritize things that can help the poor and middle class... We prioritize tax breaks for the rich and hiring police officers by the thousands.
I heard somebody say in regards to WW2, when you look at Japan, the US won the battle, but it seems Japan won the war. Look at Tokyo. It’s essentially NYC if it was well managed, clean, and just generally wasn’t a shit hole. The train system is insane like you said, down to the minute! I think they said if it’s more than 5 minutes late you get a note from the train company to show your employer. Plus they have the best cars in terms of reliability all made by the Japanese: Honda/ Acura and Toyota/ Lexus. I gotta get out there one day. Visit Tokyo and Osaka at a minimum.
It's corruption and greed. General Motors and the auto/fossil fuel industry purchased and destroyed America's public infrastructure during the 1900s to make people more dependent on a less efficient, more expensive form of travel, cars.
I think it is a mindset. The US is too car dependent and has been for way too long. Therefore urban planners, private developers, retail outlets, and politicians cannot think outside the box to solve the issue of mass transit and traffic. Even public transportation comes in 2nd to one's own vehicle. Everything we build is made for cars. We can't walk or bicycle anywhere because of how areas are zoned and things like pedestrian and cycling paths don't even come into play. Not to mention safety.
After living/working in Baltimore, DC, and NYC I'll just say regional rail needs a massive comeback. The fact that it takes ~1hr15min to get from Rockville, MD to Arlington, VA during morning/evening rush hour (only ~50min on congestion-tolled 66) was enough to sway me to take the DC metro instead (~45min). When I lived in the Bronx I didn't even take my car to live with, I kept it parked in Jersey near a rail stop since the NYC subway was good enough. There's something to be said about congestion pricing since traffic is absolute bonkers nowadays, regardless of adding more lanes (270 in MD). If there were more park-and-ride options on the outskirts of cities I think that's a happy medium right there, I'd much rather park outside of the city and commute in than sit in traffic. Plus congestion becomes a point of public safety like the sinkhole on George Washington Parkway or when a tractor trailer blocked off the VA Bridge on 495 right before evening rush hour, crippling an entire corridor of highway traffic for several hours (people were running out of gas sitting... causing even more issues upstream). Also 3:35 seems subjective, the subway is pretty clean and reliable for only ~$130/person/mo unlimited, maybe if road traffic could be reduced leading to lower maintenance in those gained funds could go to making the subway better. DC metro is ~$190/person/mo unlimited and is cleaner and a tad more reliable. For reliability, both have been quick to get shuttle bus services going pretty quickly as issues arise and I never got stuck anywhere even when problems emerged in the early hours of the morning going cross-borough. Also some minute parts are always under construction as if that's a bad thing? Obviously they try to do things at night but I'd rather them fix things sooner rather than later, plus you can't do the same thing with roads as easily and that would cause car drivers to be even more upset in proportion.
Having lived in Philadelphia and visiting NYC many times. A car is perhaps the worst way to travel in there. Traffic is slow, you’re faster in many cases walking or taking the subway.
As someone who lives in NYC and drives everyday, you're a liar. Staten Island to the Bronx is a 3 hour ride on public transportation compared to a 1 hour drive.
London expanded their congestion zone a few months ago with ULEZ zones (Ultra Low Emission Zone) which resulted in a huge amount of cars being scrapped in favour of cars that are allowed in the zone for free, affecting the poorest people the most, and over 2000 cameras have been vandalized.
I think people are confusing congestion and ULEZ zones. ULEZ for emissions was extended. Congestion zone the fee to drive in central London has not changed/expanded. We have had congestion zones in London for 20 years. It works! The less traffic the better.
@@ijeoma1992 there have been a few cities near me that diverted the highway to go around the cities and not through the cities. conclusion was more than half of the businesses in those cites shutdown permanently. is that not the case with this subscription fee?
@@Lincolnator721you don't need highways to go into a city for business to thrive. Less cars improve business margins. People who walk/cycle have that ability to look at a business and randomly decide to just stop and go in to spend their money. A car will drive past it at 50mph and not notice it
Traffic will generally fill any space you provide for it. Add more lanes? You'll simply get more traffic. Add congestion pricing? Traffic will remain the same. The amount of people wanting to get into NY far exceeds its actual capacity, so logically this will have little impact. Why not remove cars entirely from certain streets? Create pedestrian-only streets. THAT is proven to help improve cities and is what makes so many European and Asian cities amazing to live in.
Yea, it's crazy, if you give more people the option to drive themselves they'll take it in a heartbeat. Adding extra lanes directly improves the lives of millions of people, cutting back directly harms the lives of millions. It's silly how often that's left out, or how hard people try to twist things. You can gain similar gains in connectivity and economic output with public infrastructure, but you need to take the full weight of cost onto the government to do so, and it needs to be a serious commitment to come close to the effect just building roads does. There are a few places that have come close, but there's a reason not a single city in Europe or Asia is as productive or wealthy as the poorest, worst planned US cities.
🤣 watching people still not get it is hilarious. Everything politicians and government does has a double meaning. You can't get money from people as revenue with sidewalks only... They don't really care about the congestion they just want more of peoples money. How can people not see that and take their scam at face value? Damage the meters
@@clarkwillis3490how, mind giving an example how this vid was bias? Cuz it’s true especially when your in the main cities and not the country side of NY
@@SSNESS They do but here the thing they learned theirs always a way around it. They expolit loops for example emergency exits designed to be open easliy and quickly in emeregencies they open those to let people in you can't do anything about it other then place officers at these gates but they are to scared to anything now because it typcially two officers vs a group of 4 guys and all it takes is a clip of them detaining these guys and a claim of police brutaility.
During the pandemic my family in the bronx purchased an suv. Waiting in cold weather and nasty people who cough in your face was the last straw after 20 years with no car.its pretty dirty in the stations too. You have to worry about crazy people pushing you off the platform. I hate driving but MTA does not maintain their system well unless its in wealthy or touristy neighborhoods. They cant be surprised the working class are willing to pay more to avoid taking a bus. The fact that some stations hadnt been cleaned or maintained until a global shut down is embarrassing. New Yorkers pay a lot for fares and pay a lot of taxes they deserve better
I grew up on uws - west end ave. I moved to hudson country nj in the ninties. I used to use mass transit all the time until covid. now i drive into the city once a week for work and work the other days in Staten Island.
What you describe is the same desaster, which is ‚obligatorily‘ by „German Railways“ .. 🤣😂🤮 … very deficitarly and worst service, although „PT“ is very importantant and indispensable to fight „traffic- jams“ and make an better and cleaner environment realisable.
Wes we deserve better, and congestion pricing will go along way to improve the subways. I have a car too, live in Queens, and need the car to get to work in the Bronx and to get to my family the suburbs. I rarely drive into downtown, that would be crazy, no parking, too much traffic. I support congestion pricing. I hate driving like you, necessary evil to get me to my job, family in Long Island, Westchester and NJ.
I think the businesses should have the ability to apply for an exemption pass for their vehicles, so that deliveries can remain untouched, otherwise, you are going to have insane prices for everyday things, more so than it already is.
Essential freight should not be an issue. Personally owned cars should be because they make the job more difficult for trucks that carry the freight for businesses
just gonna say that most transportation vehicles (except those few that transport meter-long things but that's just a percent of cargo vehicles or so) can be replaced with cargo bikes to great effect as seen in europe, asia and Africa. So if they decide not to go for that option, that is a luxury decision and should be paid as that
Cities are for people not cars. It is a tax on people that are causing huge externality costs now. Manhattan will be a much more pleasant place without so many cars. The public transport network can absorb many more people and millions of miles of people circling around looking for parking will disappear.
Might have something to do with something that rhymes with berrylandering Merrygandering? It's on the tip off my tongue and accounts for why most ppl bad for the people stay in power.
Part of the reason there are so many trucks and commercial vehicles in the city is because we lack freight rail connections directly into manhattan, which clogs up all of the bridges and tunnels coming from both sides of the island
all cities dont have freight rails, and the last miles all rely on trucks, doesn't matter it's China or Japan or US. the problem is not trucks but how the city design. for an really old city this is going to be the problem, same for Beijing and Shanghai or HongKong, Tokyo had been leveled for the most part during WW2 that is why their design is rather good for modern live.
@@haihengh drayage from a rail freight terminal can be done with relatively small electric delivery vehicles. Many older cities had freight terminals for downtown deliveries and many still do. NYC destroyed these in the 1950s
In the last month or two, NYC employers are back pedalling on remote work and wanting people to come into the office again. I've been interviewing for tech/tech adjacent roles since JULY. These are jobs that are actually more easily performed at home because you're meeting with people all over the world. So I suspect this tax is a complex excuse for collecting more money, and I suspect there's something else going on that's penalizing companies based in NYC that don't bring employees to the city.
These companies have business real estate contracts. They’ll need to explain to investors why they are burning money to rent empty office spaces. So they make everyone come back
@@mcthorwmalowsRequire all new buildings to build the first 10 floors as self-park parking garages like every other city. Funny enough, in LA and Chicago, the #2 and #3 largest cities in the country have no issues with parking because, you know, they built parking garages that YOU, yourself, go park in your own parking spot for a daily fee. No parking attendant. No tipping. No valet. Just go, drive in, take the ticket, and park anywhere you’d like. On the way out, you pay at the exit with a credit card and problem fucking solved.
I feel like the problem is the traffic mode in itself. Everyone driving their own car for example is just way to space intensive. And it’s a little weird to me that New York as one of the wealthiest cities can’t make public transport safe, reliable and fast.
I support it, it's just... It sucks real bad here. If it was sorta cool and worked well, I'd be with it. Meantime, we go with electric unicycles and cars.@@AMBallProduction
NYC has more subway stations than any other in the world. The tunnels are old and were often not very well planned because they were built by competing companies. Unless you are travelling at night, they are very frequent and you can see arrival times posted. Most claims about the subways being unsafe are mostly media sensationalism.
Car owners get the lion’s share of public funding for infrastructure, the bulk of it goes towards fixing and expanding highways, roads, parking spaces, etc. Meanwhile, public transit gets whatever’s left over after. This proposal helps address that.
Idk if this is it, but something needs to be done to make US cities more like Tokyo. I visited recently and transit is great, and this mega-city is quieter than my small Texas city. Most vehicles on the road were small trucks delivering supplies to businesses.
Its a cultural phenomenon that the U.S. will never have. They're taught from a young age to respect their surroundings. Like inanimate objects have a soul that is the culmination of human effort to create that object. They're also often made to clean their school at the end of the day through their education. This is coupled with a ruthless intolerance to homelessness, crime, drug use, and public disturbance.
@@sfdhsrdfgadfbasf That's not the real reason behind it. It helps, but it's not the deciding factor. They put heavy investment into public transport and their cities are designed to not accommodate heavy traffic to encourage using public transport. Whereas in the US, our car and oil companies lobbied our government to design our cities in ways that accommodates heavy traffic and make public transport more difficult. And the car and oil companies constantly put out commercials and TV/movie segments that essentially brainwash our minds to make us want to buy cars. ~20% of all vehicles on ours roads are pickups trucks, how many of them are actually used for what they are designed for? Nearly everything in the US prioritizes profit, and that's not a cultural thing.
I went to Amsterdam this year and their trains, busses, and trams are world class as well as protected bike lanes. We need to build cities with alternatives to driving in mind, we need to become less car dependent.
@@georgehill3087 it absolutely is the real reason. It's a world view. They house the largest automotive companies globally and promote them endlessly in their country. You can only blame corporate greed so much. It eventually it boils down to the consumer and their world view. People don't ride public transit in such numbers because it's dangerous, dirty, unreliable, outdated. It takes a cultural understanding to want to improve that and maintain it.
Nothing better than having to be shoved into a train because it is so full you can't walk in yourself, must be wonderful for those who wish to go out with their kids and those who simply don't wanna get touched by strangers in a train that is so full to the point where there's not even room for your feet, truly world class transportation. Meanwhile in mean USA you get to enjoy the freedom of taking your car to wherever you wish, whenever you wish and however you wish, all while enjoying the air conditioning and radio/music in the car, even in a congestion.
Build crazy congestion (dense areas of high rise buildings) with inadequate parking and public transit and you'll have a congestion problem. They missed the boat during city planning years ago. Now NYC is poised to become a new 15-minute city...keeping the poor away from areas where they are not wanted. Gotta love greed and human nature.
@@scottdorsey8220 if they ban the cars then guess what busses will run more freely and transit gets better. its the entitled car drivers polluting the cities that city people do not want around.
@@scottdorsey8220 BOOOO Scary 15 minute cities means you will have public transport at your doorstep and all places you need to travel to on a daily basis in a 15 minute radius!!! Scary!!! (this comment was sponsored by the car lobby. buy more cars. think less.)
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 And, you'll be a nice debt slave as you're surveilled and controlled by Government, with their social credit score and CBDCs. The WEF and WHO will control your environment.
Years ago they did something similar in Chicago instead of charging you for coming into the city they raise the price of parking to compensate for people driving in to the city. It did absolutely nothing but increased revenue for foreign owned parking company. You see the mayor sold the rights for city parking to China along with a toll bridge in order to balance the budget before he left office. Selling off a publicly owned business for a short gain. Possibly the worst decision ever made by a public official. This was done by democrat Richard J Daley, Junior.
It isn't China. It's Saudi's. It was originally sold off to Morgan Stanley LLC. Daley's son was on the board of Morgan Stanley, at the time. Then it was sold to Saudi's.
“Unbiased”?? He may have presented “both sides”, but clearly he was rooting for 𝙤𝙣𝙚 side more than the other. It comes down to, if you are a business owner who operates vehicles in Lower Manhattan, you can pay your staff to 𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘, OR you can pay the $23/day per vehicle. Which do YOU think is more expensive?
there is no amount of money on the planet that will make a liberal plan work or fix a problem they either create or make much worse. such a number does not exist.
@@Phil9874 That's quite misleading. Many of EU's *biggest* cities have *some* special areas (old towns, historic centers, very central areas, etc.) where there is some extra payments to reduce the worst of car traffic. We're talking about the most central parts of Paris, Madrid, Rome, etc. How all of them and most other cities in EU are tackling the car problem though is by improving public transportation and "bikability" of the cities because people need to get to places and cars are just a symptom of the disease. PS, UK/London doesn't count since you need to be 18 to buy plastic spoons there. They exist in a parallel dimension that just happened to momentarily collide with ours.
Less traffic in midtown Manhattan is inevitable, it has to be. The amount of New York City traffic, more than 4 million vehicles ever day, is simply unsustainable.
unsustainable? you mean the city will sink into the ocean? or are you just throwing words that progressives paid you to say? nyc had had millions of vehicles for decades. all of a sudden it's "unsustainable" like we are supposed to know what that means?
If they dont double down on making public transport widely available, more efficient, and generally better this just them exploiting another avenue for the governing body to profit off the working class.
@@warnegoodman They cut budget for the public transportation,busses already insufficient and metro is just terrible. They dont have enough biking lanes nor biking parks. Stroads everywhere making walking dangerous. Like where is the good part, mate? Why do you think people shouldnt complain?
Something very important that this video lefts out is the economic reality of car infrastructure. All the necessary infrastructure that that allows for everyone to own a car and get good use out of it is extremely expensive, year after year. Virtually all cities in America have been unable to keep up with the cost maintaining their roads, let alone expand them in an attempt to ease congestion (which does not really work because of induced demand). When it comes to large metropolitan areas, being the hub of economic activity, most of the taxes that are used to maintain car infrastructure comes from cities, but people living in cities use that infrastructure less than people living on the suburbs which is where most of the traffic comes from, and people living in the suburbs do not pay nearly enough property taxes to cover the cost of car infrastructure both in their suburbs or the city. In short, people living in the city have subsidized car infrastructure that they largely do not benefit from, but that is unsustainable with how expensive it is living in a city. Will congestion pricing work? idk, probably not, but it is not simply bog gov stealing people's money, is an attempt at redistributing the burden of cost of unsustainable car infrastructure more evenly In conclusion, the issue here is deeper than just controlling congestion and is not just big bad government trying to take your money, the issue is the fundamental economic unsustainability of expecting every working person to own a car rather than designing both suburbs and cities with more efficient modes of mass transportation in mind
I'm so excited to see how this guess. Personally it seems like this will be something people hate for a decade and then when it decreases cars on the road people will begin to enjoy it after a decade or so
This isn't true though. I live in NY and property taxes are cheaper in the city than the suburbs. They also never spend money on the roads they are always fucked up. So not sure where this car infrastructure money is going lol. They don't even spend money to keep the city clean.
bump. This is a huge issue that the city seemingly refuses to do anything else about? There’s also quite a number of benefits to effectively, massively neutering car traffic beyond this. It might actually become a seriously desirable area to live.
Londoner here. The "Tube" got a lot of new trains and lines. I stopped using my local train because the new open plan train with smaller seats resulted in more immature people seeing my disability and bullying me. In fact that was part of the reason I left London. 😔 But during rush hour the people are not as squashed so that's good. I also Lived in Manila, Philippines. Instead of congestion pricing they have plate limits, you can only drive a car starting with a certain plate on certain days. The metro is VERY underfunded with only 3 lines for a megacity. The air quality is the worst because smoke belchers are not stopped/ bribe the checks. Congestion fees could fund black smoke checks.
Some of the people that ride the subway are awful. It’s common enough that you don’t even want to take the subway. I think the solution here is to actually enforce $100 fines for hopping the subway (screw the debate about racism). Increase police presence in subway (cops that are actually willing to hand out fines). Also putting up a new barrier that makes it harder to subway hop. On that issue, if possible, they should put a barrier that prevents people from accidentally or purposely tossing themselves/others/objects into the train tracks. New Yorkers ruin New York and the city government is incompetent to stop it.
The MTA shouldn’t have to rely on congestion pricing for funds in the first place, but it’s better than the funds going directly to the state. The MTA gotta follow through and the easiest thing they could do is more bus lanes. If you could do that and only charge private vehicles, I think congestion pricing could work
@@janvanhoyk8375Most subway shutdowns needed for repair work happen at night (roughly 11:30 p.m. - 5:30 a.m.). How are those workers supposed to get to their jobs? You mention numerous options for Manhattan commuters, but those people will be the least effected and harmed by congestion pricing.
that is annoying, probably less traffic at that time for cars anyways, but yeah i would think more train service for even those few that work those hours would be great.@@kevinmiller8111
I'm a truck driver from south NJ that delivered to NYC for over a year and you'd be surprised how many businesses get their products delivered from NJ. It's already expensive for commercial vehicles to enter NY, then they have to find parking or get ticketed, which happens a lot, and now you add another fee. SMH. It's like their local government wants to run their own city into the ground.
@@aquarius5719 yall just wanna live in a non walkable dystopia just so you can make more money. Your greed is why the young kill themselves in mass its all about money not quality of life
I think the authorities in New York must have got this idea from London. Where you have to pay in order to drive through certain areas with in the capital.
As a person who lives in the hinterlands of Colorado and has only visited NYC once in 1969(!), I am fascinated by these reports by an “ordinary New Yorker”. It suggests to me that NYC is at or above capacity. The depths to which people are willing to go to stay in a town that obviously doesn’t really value its citizens is curious. That, and the cost of housing and everything else is pretty frightening. We out here in the rest of ‘merica just don’t get it. NYC is an island, it’s outta space. There literally is a limit to how many people can “live” there. Y’all need to maybe visit the rest of the country with an eye to quality of life. Meanwhile, good work, Cash.
Don’t listen to people that think Manhattan is the end all be all of NYC. A lot of people in other boroughs and the suburbs don’t even come into Manhattan.
I understand your viewpoint. I grew up in Colorado, then had a career in NYC, then moved back to (rural) Colorado. I was in NY for over 20 years before the bullshit to benefits scale tilted. Meanwhile, Tokyo central business districts are far more densely congested than NYC. And yet they are able to maintain subway systems that are clean, safe and, reliable.
I'll speak from life experience. I'm a native-New Yorker born and raised for 38 years. Now I live out of state. First time in my life. While I gained wide open spaces and own a home. There were some trade-offs. It truly depends on the person to be honest. The biggest one, NYC is the most diverse city in the world. The way people act, think and work is reflective of that. Other smaller cities can seem "militant" in comparison because of a lack of compassion or understanding. Other reason includes convivences. Tons of options for food, shopping and entertainment. Last are job opportunities. Cost of living can be fierce there, but if there is a job to be had its going to be there. With smaller cities they may just specialize in a particular sector. New York does have it all. But sadly, between COVID, poorly planned social justice reforms, poor mayoral leadership, high tolls, price punishing eco-friendly endeavors on businesses and economic issues. It's like New York wants to check off all these boxes to look accomplished but they aren't helping anyone during these times overall. You don't know what it has to offer until you're living there. You don't know what you lose until you go elsewhere. Not being aware of the depth of NYC culture and lifestyle, I can only share with you there is nothing else like it. Nothing. Hopefully, in better times it will return to the awesome city that it truly is. Until then I had to put myself to the bench and wait it out.
As someone who,lived in nyc for twenty years and then moved to a number of other cities in America, it is plain and simple. There is nothing like NY, and either you get it or you don’t. Not to say there aren’t a million reasons to move to a place with more space, nature, quality of life but none of that stuff matters if you get hooked on NY. I was in love with the city for fifteen of those twenty years and then I wanted to find a better lifestyle, with more nature. Hard to find in America, unless you go rural, which I don’t like. So I tried Miami, Boston, LA, and then finally Durham, NC. All of it worthwhile but at the end of the day these are all suburbs compared to NY. Most of these places you depend on a car to live there. It’s great to live in a real urban city such as nY where you can take the subway or bus anywhere and everywhere. Also the vibe is deep, and that something you can’t describe. I left a long time ago and am glad I did. I think it’s lost all the coolness and vibrancy it once had. But I am glad I had my chapter there and it will never be repeated, at least not in America. I live in Spain now and the quality of life is fantastic but it’s not NY. I am older so for me, it’s perfect to have a slower placed city. But being young and ambitious in NYC, is the the bomb and I enjoyed it immensely.
@@susanvaughan4210 Tokyo is pretty homogeneous, so they don't experience the "diversity culture" crime and filth NYC does. They also prosecute criminal's, unlike NYC. There are no affirmative action hires in Tokyo, so their city worker's actually have a work ethic, unlike NYC. I'm waiting to see the spike in crime, when the illegal's get kicked to the curb, and have to survive on their own. Watching what's going on in NYC is like watching a poorly written soap opera, with an ignorant director, who equate's to the low IQ, incompetent NYC mayor, making ignorant decision's, time after time. But hey, the majority of NYC voted for him, so they are getting exactly what they deserve. Those smart enough not to have voted for him, need to get the hell out of there.
Cash Jordan - recently found your channel, checked out a few episodes and subscribed! It must be fascinating for those who DON'T live in the NYC area to watch and learn. These will become historical mini-documentaries people could look back on in the decades to follow. Thank you so much I'm turning my friends on to the channel as well. NOW: Congestion pricing? I don't think you covered 1. people who live inside the zones who have vehicles (commercial and non-commerical) ((what a pain in the ass to have to do the paperwork even IF being offered a discount)) AND don't believe you covered people who live in the CZ who need their cars to go to work OUTSIDE the city where there are no subways, trains, buses either that don't go door to door, run irregularly or don't exist - so what happens? One pays exorbitant garage fees or leapfrogs your vehicle to find parking, you go to work and come back paying for gas, tolls AND congestion pricing? No car? Take a taxi and already it's $100 just to go to Queens from Manhattan! I'm all for more bike lanes and improved public transportation... but the MTA is so corrupt... and disadvantaged neighborhoods taking another hit while the city squanders money elsewhere? NYC a haven for 'let's do it and THEN see if it works".
With rent prices of over 6k for a broom closet in Manhattan, I'd guess the inhabitants are able to afford the congestion charges and the rising prises coming with that.
If you want people to choose other alternatives, those other alternatives need to be better than the one they're doing currently that you're trying to get them to stop. New York doesn't have any better options for them. Also, people don't change their habits that quickly. This needs to be done over time slowly.
The only way this would be a valid system and argument for solving the problem, is if New York's public transit system was actually really good. So there was an actual viable alternative that didn't involve people using a dilapidated system that means they're risking their life every time they get on it. The New York Subway is way below average. So there is no good public transit alternative for New York City.
It amazes me that they always find a new excuse to steal our money. You can travel to Seoul, Tokyo, or Paris and they have the most amazing clean transit systems (Paris trains aren’t clean but are very extensive) and they do not charge any toll road fees. So how are they able to do it but here in America, they find so many ways to charge the people?
Because the cities you named were built with people in mind rather than large SUVs. Transforming North American cities into a European or Japanese style design Will require huge investments, and more particularly a change in people's behaviors and expectations. What's for sure is that life in a European city like Basel in Switzerland, or Amsterdam in the Netherlands is far better than what we have anywhere in North America
Like the other comment said, yea, these cities weren’t designed to be car-centric, but another reason is taxes. Those places either have higher taxes or more of their tax budget dedicated towards public transportation. In America, not only was the infrastructure never established, local governments fail at properly spending on public transport due to a lack of funding and public interest, or just straight up poor spending choices. The US is so far deep into it now that it’d be a colossal financial effort to fix it that not many Americans are willing to compromise for. That’s the unfortunate reality, which breeds stupid rules like these.
Americans want to own a car, a home, etc.. in Tokyo the apartments a VERY small, and average people do not own cars. They literally work and own nothing.
Another big issue is that there are many commuters who need to travel from NJ to Queens. NJ commuters who might want to take the 59th St Bridge will need to pay the full congestion fee just to travel a few blocks to get to the bridge. This is truly ridiculous.
This is something that's never talked about for some reason. I'll add that people will not get to leave Long Island, Brooklyn or Queens anymore without paying in some way. When I lived in Queens, I used to always take the 59th Street bridge ----> FDR----> I-87 anytime I needed to get upstate as the MTA bridges were too expensive. Islanders are now painted into a corner and can't even leave their own state without paying a toll. That's ridiculous. Fortunately I'm out of that highly corrupt state now.
That's the entire point. there is limited road space in lower manhattan and people who are just passing through are adding to the congestion without either working there or spending any money there. so they make the quality of life of those in lower manhattan worse off without contributing anything.
The recent editorial shift to larger questions than just those related to real estate is allowing you to exercise your best skills to the fullest. Well done.
We already have congestion pricing aka tolls in the Midtown tunnel. Ppl are now making their license plates harder to read while going over bridges because NY relies on cameras to take pics of license plates to charge these tolls. I guarantee more license plates will be altered. Congestion pricing will not solve the problem. Make subways safer and more people will use them again. I remember a time when the police were on trains all night and even if someone was sleeping on their way to work, the police would wake them up and make them get off. There were no homeless people taking over a car and 💩💩💩 in an actual car.
Those people obscuring their plates are playing with fire. The MTA police has been doing gradual enforcement of toll evaders on bridges and they will seize your car and send it straight to auction to pay for your toll evasion. It's the NYPD that gives no shits to enforce anything on streets.
It costs money to make the subways safer, cleaner, on time and not overcrowded. How would you suggest they get that money? I say TAX THE HELL OUT OF THE RICH ! What do you say? I you don't like what's going on in NYC, leave it; find a different path for yourself.
@@virginiamoss7045 lol, tax the rich and they will leave... in 2020, the top 2.5% of city taxpayers, when ranked by income, paid 51.6% of the city’s personal income tax collections
Last I heard, California (born and raised here) will be making all of us pay a per mile fee starting in the early 2030’s. States will make a cash grab any way they can, promising whatever they can. Then commandeer the funds for something else. It’s disgusting. Awhile back a .30¢ per gallon gas tax was dumped on us, promising highway/road repairs. A couple of years later, that tax was was (and still is) used for something COMPLETELY different. Of course I don’t remember what exactly it is; there’s so much crap going on here that nobody can keep up.
That gas tax has been completely useless. Highway 50 here in Sacramento has been under construction since the pandemic begun, and it won't be done until 2025 supposedly. It's made traffic much worse during rush hours, and honestly some of it probably just goes back into Newsom's paycheck
Have you read the book California Burning by Katherine Blunt? Fires happened and people died because they were too cheap to fix infrastructure. Still happening with the Maui wildfires, floods in NY, toxic smoke from fires throughout NYC and Midwest all because of infrastructure neglect. Dr. Shiva Ayadurai explains it well. He was the only one who brought up need for infrastructure repair while politicians were busy locking people down with their weekly boosters.
@@DagaenGolomb yeah exactly but the US car lobby is too strong in the US. I mean look how they somehow were able to denounce 15 minute city concepts. I still can't get my head around how quickly they were able to do that haha. Visited the US once. Never again. The need for a car for every single errand is horrible.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 The reason why they disnounced 15 minute cities is because people aren't stupid dude. lol. People like me who work in the oil field have to drive to work, there isn't "Public" transport around here. It started with covid all the scheming and scheming they did? This isn't new. NYC is a cesspool of just BS from the years and years of bad polcies are catching up. US Carlobby isn't exactly strong, you must not realize the US is a company basically lmao.
@@CineZoneYT We don't need to discourage driving. We are already massively SUBSIDIZING it. All we need to do is stop subsidizing it. Congestion pricing is to reflect the true cost on individuals and society from driving.
I dont think NYC needs a billion cars on the road. It might actually be easier to get to places with a few less. Beef up public transit and have things like zip car be more available for those longer treks. Also, with the way building codes work, having to force parking spaces into new constructions, disinsentivising cars, and allowing for the appropriate changes will allow for more affordable housing, which people do in fact need in a city.
Though it's a fact that america has to move away from cars eventually, removing the cars before creating other options is a bad idea. Should have improved public transportation substantially before doing this
The problem is that the roads infrastructure was built back when horses were used for transportation so now that cars exist there’s not much to build onto when the skyscrapers are packed so tightly together
@slapshotjack9806 They don't need to build anything different just have less cars on the road, more busses and try to get people to use scooters more in the city. Imagine how much easier it would be to get around.
"All you can do is suddenly react when it is inflicted upon you!"... That is a very ominous and true statement!!! We really enjoy all your videos!! Thank you!!! ❤😂🎉
The reason NY doesn't have enough bike and bus lanes is because city planners are afraid of the impact that reallocation of space would have on traffic, or because people are afraid of losing parking spaces. With the reduced volume of traffic due to congestion pricing, that frees up the space to add that infrastructure. It's a lot easier to get a parking lane replaced with a bike lane when there isn't anyone parking there. One thing that wasn't mentioned with the London example is that while travel speeds did not improve a lot, the volume of traffic did reduce quite a bit, allowing for an incredible amount of space that used to be for auto traffic to be turned into bus lanes, bike lanes, and pedestrian areas.
In Utica NY, they put in bike lanes on main St thru the city, after 1 month people went to city hall and complained 😮. Bike lanes were removed.. unbelieveable. Obviously I ride a bike. I just don't understand some people
It's not perfect, but compared to 10 to 15 years ago, it is utterly transformational. You only saw bike messengers in the past. Remember that old 180's movie Quick Silver. It was crazy scary and dangerous to ride a bike in NYC back in the day. Today there are great bike lanes all over the place. Many are completely separated from cars. It's far from perfect, but it's remarkably descent. Next time I go back I'm bringing my bike helmet and going for some rides. I was shocked by how many City-Bikes I saw being used. During rush hour, evenings and the week there was a never ending stream of people using the short term rental bikes on the nicer bike lanes that were fully separated from car traffic. The new e-bike rentals are especially popular. The City-Bikes are heavy duty and therefore weight a lot (like old fashioned Dutch bikes), good for holding up on short commuted, but not fast. E-bike power makes it accelerate like a sporty lightweight bike. Most people are riding in regular clothes. Most need to go less than a few miles. It's just that walking at a good pace is 4 mph, but with traffic lights you are probably slowed down to around 3 mph. Bike can easily go 1o to 12 mph so you get there fast. Much of Manhattan cycling looked less scary than my 32 mile (round trip) bike commute from a suburb of Buffalo to downtown.
I've been watching all these New York videos...they are amazing, insightful and informative. As an Aussie, It honestly sounds and looks like a third world country. I've never been more grateful to live where I do, so thankyou for reminding me of that.
You do realize that the United States is the country and the country is MASSIVE. Nice overgeneralization by comparing NYC to all of the country. I live in a part of the US that's peaceful, clean, forested and affordable.
Cash- Outstanding reporting. Your content choices are fabulous. I thoroughly enjoy your delivery and how you use your environment so well. I just have to say you are so very interesting to watch. Thank you for your never ending interest in NYC. They need you man. Keep going!☮️👏👏👏👏
NYC is currently paying about $440 a day to house each illegal immigrant currently living in the city. Let’s be honest, they don’t care about the traffic. Taxing people driving in to the city will not reduce congestion because no one is driving in Manhattan for fun. All those cars are for employees or transportation services. NY is basically taxing transportation workers even more to earn more money to help their migrant crisis. The solution to their financial crisis is to take MORE money from taxpayers to house people who illegally entered the country and who get to live for free in the country’s most expensive city. NYC is housing illegal foreigners who do not work or pay taxes at the cost of the taxpayer. I wonder how long this system will function before they end up like Venezuela, Cuba, or the USSR.
You get what you vote for. The people of New York supported the idea of providing for illegals and now they don't want to pay? Too bad, you'll pay indirectly. They will cut your public services and charge you extra taxes and fees. You don't get to say you'll do something and then when it comes time not do it
In Seattle they want to do this too. But the money will go to the "general fund" and then it disappears... no one kniws where it goes. We have a "sugar tax" in the city limits, sugar tax on all drinks.. except starbucks of course. They first said the money would go to the lower income folks with vouchers for fruits and vegetables .. nope the millions go to the general fund and disappears. It takes me 1.25 hrs to drive into work, it would take 4 hrs on trains and busses each way. 2.5 hrs a day vs 8 hrs commutung to work
if you drive 1.25 hrs to get to work everyday, you already have a problem. no one needs to subsidize your commute by paying for road maintenance (millions of $$$) when you could've just found housing closer to your workplace. the lack of public transit and housing infrastructure is also another huge issue brought by policies like parking minimums and exclusionary zoning laws. not sure what the sugar tax has to do with the 1.25 hour commute. If you want to actually see where the money goes, get involved with local politics and don't just ingest online media at face value. read the policy documents. get involved and be the change you want to see
When i started working at my job 20 yrs ago, it was a 20 minute commute. I do not earn the 200k a year, needed to live closer to work. We have one of the highest property costs and rent costs in the US. Of course i will veg your forgiveness for not living next door to my job, or for even commenting. Never will i comment again.
Giant municipal subsidies like we just started in Atlanta for e-bike purchases will need to be the bare minimum answer. Probably need to subsidize a large amount of rail transfers too
Love these in depth reports on costs of living and doing business in NYC. Pretty crazy. If I were in my 30’s I’d be trying to live a sustainable off grid lifestyle.
@@dsp4392yes same here though idk if I would call him right leaned compared to the other Americans, he just seems to be another econo"liberal"ist to me which is "left" in America afaik
That’s just going to force the cars to go on other avenues to avoid the tolls which is gonna cause more congestion elsewhere. Unless they do it on every avenue where you can’t avoid it no matter what.
Or hear me out - people use the subway and pubic transportation because that’s what it’s for. Less available roads never really equates to less traffic like many people fear it does. In fact building more roads often creates more traffic
@@jaykay1899I lived in nyc all my life. The subway won’t be able to handle that influx of people. In normal rush hours the subway platform becomes overcrowded thus dangerous. Also the subway aren’t always running even buses don’t go to all places
just wanna say the video articulation, the breaks, the camera angles, the usage of footage over talking makes the video very pleasant to watch, youre a very skilled videographer, keep up the good content
I think commercial vehilces should be exempt from the congestion fee, its the personal vehicles that average 1.5 occupants that waste so much space. The trucks carrying a large amount of goods belong on the roads. Also there might be the possibility that companies might be able to charge less because if there are no personal vehicles on the road they could deliver goods way more efficiently (I have not run any numbers, this is my making a guess). We really need to be providing good alternatives to driving so personal vehciles aren't needed as often. Cars waste so much space and are hard to maneuver when you've got thousands of them. Cars and dense cities do not mix
Problem is that only way to actually fix this problem is with better infrastructure and public transport. Doing this is just going to hurt people with less money. If you actually do things right, people would just choose to walk, use bikes and use public transit, which would reduce cars naturally. They should just do huge interconnected infrastructure plan, and then implement it piece by piece as it becomes possible. Ultimately all "solutions" I heard in this video are just for mitigating the problem, no steps to solve it.
Cash this video is phenomenal! As always, such a nuanced and well-researched take on a super complex political/social NYC dilemma! *Especially* appreciated your mention of the possible impacts on the Bronx towards the end - have been thinking about this but never considered the issue with as much stark and concerning contrast as you shared it. I have no doubt that your videos are beginning to shape some public opinion and even policy talks in the city.
Isn't the Bronx getting new service to Penn Station though? He failed to mention those projects which are also going to balance out impact of this plan.
is it rly nuanced if it's just telling the story from one POV? He didn't touch on options like cargobikes and the problems that come with any car infrastructure (such as it costing way more than what will be spent on public transportation and this cost not being distributed fairly) and while it is nice to rant about the problems of the new policies he didn't propose any alternative which I definitely would if I wanted to make a nuanced take on a topic
It is a tax grab for the government. The issue here is that while international cities like London or Singapore have implemented these congestion chargers, they live in cities with the best public transport systems in the world. I have travelled to London extensively while studying abroad and taking the tube or subway was so rewarding. I didn't feel like I needed a car to visit many of the beautiful areas and towns in England. Nearly all the towns, even small ones, had a train line with multiple lines running daily. Very well run, albeit with a few strikes here and there. The issue with NYC is that they don't have that level of public transport, especially for those who commute from New Jersey into Queens. On top of paying bridge tolls, taxes, and everything else, this 23-dollar fee is ridiculous. I really doubt they will use this money well
Your points are why all the money is going to the MTA to make it better. Whether that actually happens or not remains to be seen but if they can improve the subway in a meaningful way this’ll be worth it imo.
NYC transit isn't perfect, but it's the best in the US by far. The majority of people in NYC do not have a car. Rich people may not want to get on the subway with regular working folk, but then they can suck up and pay $20. Even if the money is burned and does nothing of value, reducing cars on the streets is a good thing. Cash even acknowledges this. If congestion moving from lower Manhattan north is bad for those areas, why is it okay for the area traffic is currently in? Maybe the congestion zone should be bigger...
@@FriendlyFireYTthe best in the US isn’t really saying anything as most other cities have some of the worst public transport of any major city in the western world
This is a chicken and egg issue and without shifting away from cities that prioritize cars over people, the U.S is never going to become as walkable and livable as European cities.
Another very informative and entertaining video. I ride a regular bike but not in NYC. I enjoy the old school pedaling style. The exertion is great! That would be my only concern with e-bikes: you don't get much exercise if any at all. People need to exercise or face major health problems. Cycling is a good way to get and stay fit; plus, it gets you where you need to go.
@@mikep490 That's a fact! I never leave my bike unattended. I keep it in line of vision (locked) and never more than five seconds away from me. If I had a folding bike (say, a Brompton with 16 inch wheels, making it pretty small), I'd take it in stores with me. If that were not allowed, then I'd shop elsewhere. Basically, don't leave your bike unattended.
Dude, I'm really liking your exploratory videos. As a NYer with no SM following, this is the exact same type of video I would make if I could. I hate how expensive it already is to get in and out of the City - the GWB (and other PANYNJ crossings) is $17 cash! The MTA bridges and tunnels are already $7 per trip ($11 without EZ Pass). I'm scared to see the effect CP will have on small businesses and their prices - we know for sure all those delivery vans and commercial trucks are not going to get off on 60th Street and take the trains further south in order to avoid those tolls. They are definitely going to pass on the expenses to the businesses which will then have to pass on the expenses to the end user! This is such a bad idea it's crazy. And to think they are floating the idea of keeping the tolls active 24/7, even at night when there's no congestion
he does make great content. it's just a shame he wont go near the sacred cow, which is going to skyrocket along with prices: crime & and who is doing it. it's okay buddy, shhh shhh bring it in, bring it in.
@@an0therdimensi0n99 pretty sure he did a video about stores closing and the reason being crime and retail theft! But give him time he's slowly stepping into this coming from strictly apartment rental videos... Also I'd like to see more videos focusing on the extreme cost of living in NYC and rent being astronomical...
Consider leaving. I did. Much happier since then. Such a cramped life, so many things I didn’t do because I couldn’t afford it. Now it’s extra life every day.
@@LilyGazou it's not a bad idea, trust me. But with all its bad, this is still the greatest city in the world and my roots are pretty deep here. We'll see what the future holds!
It's $23 maximum a car which is a rounding error for most businesses. Drivers who destroy the environment and cause noise pollution with their cars need to start paying the full price of the damages they cause.
@@janvanhoyk8375: I have a nephew who lives in Texas with his wife and one son. The cost of living is STILL much lower that New York or California. In fact, people from NY and CA are MOVING there for that lower cost of living. (Just saying - ya *_pay_* what ya *_get_* for.)
@@SouLoveReal Yes, cost of living in much of that area will probably always be lower cost than NYC, dense areas tend to cost more and pay more. Cost of living =/= quality of life (in either direction), but there is a correlation for sure. I think a lot of americans in suburban areas balk at the idea of paying more in cost of living but are unfamiliar with the many benefits (and places where money is saved) of living in denser areas.
nah its to keep outsiders from comming into the city easily and clogging the city up. people in the city have a right to prevent outsiders from comming in if they want to. you dont live there. they do. stop forcing your entitlement on them.
@@zerotheligerwealthy people take car services. The toll won’t affect them at all. And what kind of bs is it that people who live outside of the city but work in the city, should be kept out? If that’s the way you feel, don’t leave manhattan. We don’t want you in our neighborhoods either.
@@southernparadise9896 thats fine then the city wants to stop subsidizing yalls suburbs next. yall can pay for your own roads, land usage, utilitie lines, and sewage systems. instead of leeching off cities. we will see how long yall can handle your taxes skyrocketing when real cost of home ownership hits
@@zerotheliger 😂😂 I live rurally in another state. I’m a poultry farmer. Let’s see how long y’all stay alive when we stop sending food into the city 😂😂
The reality is that if existing congestion pricing isn't working, it'll only increase until it finally does. If you can, please switch to bike/bus/train. Leave the city roads to commercial vehicles.
Cash- Honestly, as much as I love your real estate videos, I think I like your NYC update videos even more. And I've never lived in NYC! (But I always felt like I belonged there). You do topics that media won't touch. Great work!
I love NYC and worked in Midtown. I would rarely eat dinner there because getting out of work, one just goes home, but even though I had a bus pass myself, my family didn't, so to go out to eat in Manhattan you'd have to pay for the bus or drive in pay the toll and parking which was exorbitant then, now its just that much more,. So the city might make $23/day off the people who do come, that which is seen, but how much will they lose from the people who don't come, that which is unseen? Hard to tell, right?
It's weird how I'm both frustrated and happy this is happening. On one hand, I've noticed it's a lot easier to drive through midtown. And I mean a LOT. I remember one time driving towards the Holland and I was stuck in traffic for least 2 hours...and I was just driving up 5 blocks. Now I can get through those same 5 blocks in 30 minutes or less... On the other hand, I'm getting charged something like $46 everytime I decided to drive in.
@@roller12coaster depends. If you're driving down a street rather than an avenue, it could take a while. I was referring to driving down ....I think it's 38th?
@@jimmystanley7054Ngl, parts of Brooklyn and Queens are still transit deserts and could def use more above-ground trains. At the very least, they should make all existing LIRR infrastructure $2.90 within the city.
@@jimmystanley7054 lol yea the system may be super nasty and ancient but the routes and frequency are better than most European ones. Over 400 stations are no joke, actually the largest metro system in the world by station numbers
Hopping the train or bus doesn’t lose money for Transit Authorities. It’s the lack reliability, safety, cleanliness, and convenience that is driving people away from using their local amenities.
Reduce the salaries of "elected," officials, and use it to improve public transportation. It's so exceedingly simple. Why hasn't this happened? Because of out of control, rampant corruption.
They have been doing it in my city for 2 years now. We have a system where if your car's plate number ends in an odd or pair number you can't use it on odd or pair days from 6 am to 9 pm, and if you want to use it you have to pay from $15 to $30 depending on your car. Many people have opted to buy another car with a different plate number which made car prices rise. The problem is we don't have a decent transportation system that justifies this, and they just get richer and richer. They have collected millions that are supposed to be invested in public transportation but they are nowhere to be seen
People obviously like it cuz they voted for it. I don’t live in the city but I like it. Less cars ≠ taking away your freedoms It means having more options. Public transport is less expensive than maintaining a car anyways. Not everything is connected to a grand conspiracy
Really? Have you seen all the luxury SUVs and Pickup trucks on the road nowadays? Don't you think you should blame the consumer just a little for insane car payments and insurance going up as a consequence?
@@neilsimmons9582 If only there were some other way to get around New York City other than driving. Hopefully someday they'd put in some transit, like a subway perhaps.
This cash grab will hurt working people like myself. I commute through Manhattan everyday and I refuse to pay $23 just to work. Also MTA will squander this money. Nothing will get fixed.
I’m a classical musician living on Long Island and a lot of the best work for us is in Manhattan. At the times I had to be in the city (generally Sunday mornings and weekday late evenings) it was cheaper, quicker, and COVID safer for me to drive using the 59th St. bridge for my gigs which were almost entirely uptown. Now I’d have to pay the congestion pricing fee just for one block? Or pay upwards of $30-35 just for one day of the miserable LIRR + subway. I could fill my tank to full for the same cost as one LIRR round trip and get 2, maybe 3 round trips to the city driving. Musicians already make terrible money to begin with, and costs are going up and up while wages stay stagnant. It’s either pay the unrealistic, exorbitant rent, or get nickel-and-dimed at every exhausting commute. I just left my all-pro church choir post of 4 years in the UWS for a higher paying position much closer to home. Glad that job found me when it did.
ya why i stopped taking NJ gigs. Use to be free to get out of NYC and only toll on way back. Now Verrazzano is both way toll, or its gonna cost another $23 just to get to the holland tunnel. They need roads under Manhattan so we can get out of the city without having to drive in the toll zones.
Once again I must tell you...Your delivery engaging. Camera work....Creative. Natural tones...easy flow. Cash, you and your team are really moving uo some levels recently. Class A job! ~Red
We shouldn't call them tolls or congestion pricing. It is an additional TAX. Add it to your sales tax, property tax, income tax, state tax and all the fees that are hidden taxes and room taxes for hotels. Tax! Tax! Tax! Nice reporting.
@@Iponamann possibly but it will likely be passed on to anyone that buys products in that area. Nothing is perfect but I personally am voting against anyone that is trying to raise taxes. I appreciate your perspective.
@@Iponamann If you live there you probably don't pay the hotel tax, either. That's why it is so hard to say which state or urban area will tax any given person the least.
It's a tax that's optional if you own a car. However, drivers are already very heavily subsidized via free to use roads and free parking (the tax collected on drivers only pays about half the cost of roads and free parking). Simply put, drivers do not and have never paid their fair share of their cost of driving.
Maybe people really like taxes? We have a toll situation developing in Oregon in Portland and magically the amount of the toll taxes being announced are almost exactly people's disposable income. I get some people in NY don't have cars but out West you have to have a car to work.
Good, Americans need to start not depending on cars. Also paying to drive should make it so traffic doesn’t even happen as much, basically paying a premium
I think doing that without having better public transportation options in place first is horrible governing.
trains. they work all around the world.
Just like how the west coast legalized all drugs without trying to improve healthcare
Might as well have the fairy godmother start turning the rats into horses.
@@Midala87Yooo 🤣🤣🤣
@@w.alan.21bro have you ever been on a nyc train you know how bad that shit is
I used to think Philly traffic was bad, then I started commuting to
NY regularly. Hours to go 8 miles is insanity.
@@joninslo5759 what ?? That literally not what they said at all. They were simply sharing their experience. Learn how to be rational
@@joninslo5759Schizo response
@@joninslo5759you definitely got issues if thats what you got from it
Facts bro chill out
@@A_C2215is he wrong tho?
Has anyone else noticed how SOOOO far behind we are in public transportation compared to Japan? I'm a Floridian who's never left the country simply because I'm poor. Like...poverty poor. But I am very much in love with watching everything and anything that has to do with Asian culture and seeing how people get around in Japan is just absolutely mind blowing. They have it right.
Same as it ever was, unfortunately. We don't prioritize things that can help the poor and middle class... We prioritize tax breaks for the rich and hiring police officers by the thousands.
also research the MTA , then you will realize this is a money grab . They are the worst organization in the city .
I heard somebody say in regards to WW2, when you look at Japan, the US won the battle, but it seems Japan won the war. Look at Tokyo. It’s essentially NYC if it was well managed, clean, and just generally wasn’t a shit hole. The train system is insane like you said, down to the minute! I think they said if it’s more than 5 minutes late you get a note from the train company to show your employer. Plus they have the best cars in terms of reliability all made by the Japanese: Honda/ Acura and Toyota/ Lexus. I gotta get out there one day. Visit Tokyo and Osaka at a minimum.
It's corruption and greed. General Motors and the auto/fossil fuel industry purchased and destroyed America's public infrastructure during the 1900s to make people more dependent on a less efficient, more expensive form of travel, cars.
I think it is a mindset. The US is too car dependent and has been for way too long. Therefore urban planners, private developers, retail outlets, and politicians cannot think outside the box to solve the issue of mass transit and traffic. Even public transportation comes in 2nd to one's own vehicle. Everything we build is made for cars. We can't walk or bicycle anywhere because of how areas are zoned and things like pedestrian and cycling paths don't even come into play. Not to mention safety.
After living/working in Baltimore, DC, and NYC I'll just say regional rail needs a massive comeback. The fact that it takes ~1hr15min to get from Rockville, MD to Arlington, VA during morning/evening rush hour (only ~50min on congestion-tolled 66) was enough to sway me to take the DC metro instead (~45min). When I lived in the Bronx I didn't even take my car to live with, I kept it parked in Jersey near a rail stop since the NYC subway was good enough. There's something to be said about congestion pricing since traffic is absolute bonkers nowadays, regardless of adding more lanes (270 in MD). If there were more park-and-ride options on the outskirts of cities I think that's a happy medium right there, I'd much rather park outside of the city and commute in than sit in traffic. Plus congestion becomes a point of public safety like the sinkhole on George Washington Parkway or when a tractor trailer blocked off the VA Bridge on 495 right before evening rush hour, crippling an entire corridor of highway traffic for several hours (people were running out of gas sitting... causing even more issues upstream). Also 3:35 seems subjective, the subway is pretty clean and reliable for only ~$130/person/mo unlimited, maybe if road traffic could be reduced leading to lower maintenance in those gained funds could go to making the subway better. DC metro is ~$190/person/mo unlimited and is cleaner and a tad more reliable. For reliability, both have been quick to get shuttle bus services going pretty quickly as issues arise and I never got stuck anywhere even when problems emerged in the early hours of the morning going cross-borough. Also some minute parts are always under construction as if that's a bad thing? Obviously they try to do things at night but I'd rather them fix things sooner rather than later, plus you can't do the same thing with roads as easily and that would cause car drivers to be even more upset in proportion.
Having lived in Philadelphia and visiting NYC many times. A car is perhaps the worst way to travel in there. Traffic is slow, you’re faster in many cases walking or taking the subway.
Which is why we should tax them
@@pr.paradox1970 Unless it’s essential freight then yes.
@@pr.paradox1970is that your answer to everything you don't like?
I take day trips there and I park and then walk all day😭
As someone who lives in NYC and drives everyday, you're a liar. Staten Island to the Bronx is a 3 hour ride on public transportation compared to a 1 hour drive.
Most New Yorkers voted for all this. They made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
100% and they will continue to vote the same and comment on videos like this with zero understanding.
We voted for it because we want it. Why would anyone want to live in a city full of traffic when the majority of New Yorkers don't even own cars?
Nyc hasn't counted a vote in years....
@@jimbo1637bro that’s the dumbest comment I have seen. A lot of New Yorkers own cars.
@@jimbo1637Don’t complain when the price of everything jumps 20% then
MTA will take the money, mismanagement, and nothing will improve. MTA is a racket.
MTA= money taking Agency
Works for me 💰
@@ElleBrOw
“Works” and the MTA should have be used in the same sentence
Exactly ✅️
Yeah, they’ll keep paying people who don’t even work for them and waste all the money. Smh
London expanded their congestion zone a few months ago with ULEZ zones (Ultra Low Emission Zone) which resulted in a huge amount of cars being scrapped in favour of cars that are allowed in the zone for free, affecting the poorest people the most, and over 2000 cameras have been vandalized.
I think people are confusing congestion and ULEZ zones. ULEZ for emissions was extended. Congestion zone the fee to drive in central London has not changed/expanded. We have had congestion zones in London for 20 years. It works! The less traffic the better.
Why does it effect the poorest people the most?
@@ijeoma1992 there have been a few cities near me that diverted the highway to go around the cities and not through the cities. conclusion was more than half of the businesses in those cites shutdown permanently. is that not the case with this subscription fee?
Hey Larry, can't wait for your next video.
@@Lincolnator721you don't need highways to go into a city for business to thrive. Less cars improve business margins. People who walk/cycle have that ability to look at a business and randomly decide to just stop and go in to spend their money. A car will drive past it at 50mph and not notice it
Traffic will generally fill any space you provide for it. Add more lanes? You'll simply get more traffic. Add congestion pricing? Traffic will remain the same. The amount of people wanting to get into NY far exceeds its actual capacity, so logically this will have little impact. Why not remove cars entirely from certain streets? Create pedestrian-only streets. THAT is proven to help improve cities and is what makes so many European and Asian cities amazing to live in.
Yea, it's crazy, if you give more people the option to drive themselves they'll take it in a heartbeat. Adding extra lanes directly improves the lives of millions of people, cutting back directly harms the lives of millions. It's silly how often that's left out, or how hard people try to twist things.
You can gain similar gains in connectivity and economic output with public infrastructure, but you need to take the full weight of cost onto the government to do so, and it needs to be a serious commitment to come close to the effect just building roads does. There are a few places that have come close, but there's a reason not a single city in Europe or Asia is as productive or wealthy as the poorest, worst planned US cities.
New York isn't in Europe, it's in the US. Also it has unique problems like being an island. Space is limited, transport will always be strained.
Let me start with, nah.
🤣 watching people still not get it is hilarious. Everything politicians and government does has a double meaning. You can't get money from people as revenue with sidewalks only...
They don't really care about the congestion they just want more of peoples money.
How can people not see that and take their scam at face value?
Damage the meters
@@hydra7427 so banning cars would make more sense
I like this little news reporting you’re doing.
It’s nice to hear about what’s going on from someone who actually lives in the city.
Bottled water isn’t safe to drink either
LOL. "News reporting". Pure opinion with bias.
@@clarkwillis3490how, mind giving an example how this vid was bias? Cuz it’s true especially when your in the main cities and not the country side of NY
The MTA is going to take the money, waste it and pay more to its CEO.
They need to put up huge gates at the subway terminals so that nobody can get on for free
@@SSNESS They do but here the thing they learned theirs always a way around it. They expolit loops for example emergency exits designed to be open easliy and quickly in emeregencies they open those to let people in you can't do anything about it other then place officers at these gates but they are to scared to anything now because it typcially two officers vs a group of 4 guys and all it takes is a clip of them detaining these guys and a claim of police brutaility.
NY MTA looks gross!
@@SSNESSThey’ll blame everything and everyone but the CEO up top embezzling all the cash to pay for his fleet of Ferraris.
@@chinookh4713😂😂
During the pandemic my family in the bronx purchased an suv. Waiting in cold weather and nasty people who cough in your face was the last straw after 20 years with no car.its pretty dirty in the stations too. You have to worry about crazy people pushing you off the platform. I hate driving but MTA does not maintain their system well unless its in wealthy or touristy neighborhoods. They cant be surprised the working class are willing to pay more to avoid taking a bus. The fact that some stations hadnt been cleaned or maintained until a global shut down is embarrassing. New Yorkers pay a lot for fares and pay a lot of taxes they deserve better
I grew up on uws - west end ave. I moved to hudson country nj in the ninties. I used to use mass transit all the time until covid. now i drive into the city once a week for work and work the other days in Staten Island.
What you describe is the same desaster, which is ‚obligatorily‘ by „German Railways“ ..
🤣😂🤮 … very deficitarly and worst service, although „PT“ is very importantant and indispensable to fight „traffic- jams“ and make an better and cleaner environment realisable.
Wes we deserve better, and congestion pricing will go along way to improve the subways. I have a car too, live in Queens, and need the car to get to work in the Bronx and to get to my family the suburbs. I rarely drive into downtown, that would be crazy, no parking, too much traffic. I support congestion pricing. I hate driving like you, necessary evil to get me to my job, family in Long Island, Westchester and NJ.
Taking subways is also risky. There is crime.
I think the businesses should have the ability to apply for an exemption pass for their vehicles, so that deliveries can remain untouched, otherwise, you are going to have insane prices for everyday things, more so than it already is.
That and a bus or freight vehicles, any of those are simply providing vital goods distribution
They would likely save more than $23 in labor and gas costs spent sitting in traffic.
Essential freight should not be an issue. Personally owned cars should be because they make the job more difficult for trucks that carry the freight for businesses
$20 per truckload isn't going to make a noticeable difference to NYC prices
just gonna say that most transportation vehicles (except those few that transport meter-long things but that's just a percent of cargo vehicles or so) can be replaced with cargo bikes to great effect as seen in europe, asia and Africa. So if they decide not to go for that option, that is a luxury decision and should be paid as that
So it's not a "ban", it's just another tax that will inevitably be passed along to the consumer while the proceeds get wasted.
Mayor is exempt and all NYC City Hall staff is too. * That is the best part. Let them have cake and eat it too!
The other question is how are these dollars going to be used by the administration? I have not seen anything on that yet... Pocketed most likely.
@@JasonTurner The money will go to the MTA to help fund capital projects.
Cities are for people not cars. It is a tax on people that are causing huge externality costs now. Manhattan will be a much more pleasant place without so many cars. The public transport network can absorb many more people and millions of miles of people circling around looking for parking will disappear.
@@PerfectSpainValencia 🙄uh-huh.suresure.thanks for the official press release.hope you enjoy the extra surcharge on everything.👍
It's fascinating how everyone complains of policies like these, yet keep voting the same people to lead them.
Typical brainless Democrats
NYC loves the D
Might have something to do with something that rhymes with berrylandering
Merrygandering? It's on the tip off my tongue and accounts for why most ppl bad for the people stay in power.
This is why I don’t vote
@@silfrido1768so you’re just gonna let them keep doing this and not vote against it?
Part of the reason there are so many trucks and commercial vehicles in the city is because we lack freight rail connections directly into manhattan, which clogs up all of the bridges and tunnels coming from both sides of the island
all cities dont have freight rails, and the last miles all rely on trucks, doesn't matter it's China or Japan or US. the problem is not trucks but how the city design. for an really old city this is going to be the problem, same for Beijing and Shanghai or HongKong, Tokyo had been leveled for the most part during WW2 that is why their design is rather good for modern live.
Robert Moses dismantled freight rail in NYC. Also stopped the lower deck of the GWB from being rail as was intended.
@@haihengh drayage from a rail freight terminal can be done with relatively small electric delivery vehicles. Many older cities had freight terminals for downtown deliveries and many still do. NYC destroyed these in the 1950s
In the last month or two, NYC employers are back pedalling on remote work and wanting people to come into the office again. I've been interviewing for tech/tech adjacent roles since JULY. These are jobs that are actually more easily performed at home because you're meeting with people all over the world. So I suspect this tax is a complex excuse for collecting more money, and I suspect there's something else going on that's penalizing companies based in NYC that don't bring employees to the city.
Bingo! I suspect the same.
Holy cow! Could be!!
@@nickj12so what is your solution if you are the mayor of new york? Maybe you had a good solution?
These companies have business real estate contracts. They’ll need to explain to investors why they are burning money to rent empty office spaces. So they make everyone come back
@@mcthorwmalowsRequire all new buildings to build the first 10 floors as self-park parking garages like every other city. Funny enough, in LA and Chicago, the #2 and #3 largest cities in the country have no issues with parking because, you know, they built parking garages that YOU, yourself, go park in your own parking spot for a daily fee. No parking attendant. No tipping. No valet. Just go, drive in, take the ticket, and park anywhere you’d like. On the way out, you pay at the exit with a credit card and problem fucking solved.
I feel like the problem is the traffic mode in itself. Everyone driving their own car for example is just way to space intensive. And it’s a little weird to me that New York as one of the wealthiest cities can’t make public transport safe, reliable and fast.
It has to do other things and public transportation is not supported in the USA
I support it, it's just... It sucks real bad here. If it was sorta cool and worked well, I'd be with it. Meantime, we go with electric unicycles and cars.@@AMBallProduction
Can't make public transportation safe when Restorative Justice is being used for offenders.
NYC has more subway stations than any other in the world. The tunnels are old and were often not very well planned because they were built by competing companies. Unless you are travelling at night, they are very frequent and you can see arrival times posted. Most claims about the subways being unsafe are mostly media sensationalism.
Car owners get the lion’s share of public funding for infrastructure, the bulk of it goes towards fixing and expanding highways, roads, parking spaces, etc. Meanwhile, public transit gets whatever’s left over after. This proposal helps address that.
10:55, what I see is that the city is not interested in fixing anything. They just want more money!
This is all it is.
yeah why doesn’t the city just fix things without using money 💀💀
I only walk in the city and never take my car when I go. I see this as an absolute win. Less cars, less noise.
Unless you want to travel out of the city for a break or vacation. Renting cars is expensive.
Idk if this is it, but something needs to be done to make US cities more like Tokyo. I visited recently and transit is great, and this mega-city is quieter than my small Texas city. Most vehicles on the road were small trucks delivering supplies to businesses.
Its a cultural phenomenon that the U.S. will never have. They're taught from a young age to respect their surroundings. Like inanimate objects have a soul that is the culmination of human effort to create that object. They're also often made to clean their school at the end of the day through their education. This is coupled with a ruthless intolerance to homelessness, crime, drug use, and public disturbance.
@@sfdhsrdfgadfbasf That's not the real reason behind it. It helps, but it's not the deciding factor. They put heavy investment into public transport and their cities are designed to not accommodate heavy traffic to encourage using public transport. Whereas in the US, our car and oil companies lobbied our government to design our cities in ways that accommodates heavy traffic and make public transport more difficult. And the car and oil companies constantly put out commercials and TV/movie segments that essentially brainwash our minds to make us want to buy cars. ~20% of all vehicles on ours roads are pickups trucks, how many of them are actually used for what they are designed for? Nearly everything in the US prioritizes profit, and that's not a cultural thing.
I went to Amsterdam this year and their trains, busses, and trams are world class as well as protected bike lanes. We need to build cities with alternatives to driving in mind, we need to become less car dependent.
@@georgehill3087 it absolutely is the real reason. It's a world view. They house the largest automotive companies globally and promote them endlessly in their country. You can only blame corporate greed so much. It eventually it boils down to the consumer and their world view. People don't ride public transit in such numbers because it's dangerous, dirty, unreliable, outdated. It takes a cultural understanding to want to improve that and maintain it.
Nothing better than having to be shoved into a train because it is so full you can't walk in yourself, must be wonderful for those who wish to go out with their kids and those who simply don't wanna get touched by strangers in a train that is so full to the point where there's not even room for your feet, truly world class transportation. Meanwhile in mean USA you get to enjoy the freedom of taking your car to wherever you wish, whenever you wish and however you wish, all while enjoying the air conditioning and radio/music in the car, even in a congestion.
Looking at everything I've learned in this video, it seems like a classic case of fighting the symptoms instead of the disease.
Build crazy congestion (dense areas of high rise buildings) with inadequate parking and public transit and you'll have a congestion problem. They missed the boat during city planning years ago. Now NYC is poised to become a new 15-minute city...keeping the poor away from areas where they are not wanted. Gotta love greed and human nature.
@@scottdorsey8220 if they ban the cars then guess what busses will run more freely and transit gets better. its the entitled car drivers polluting the cities that city people do not want around.
@@scottdorsey8220that’s not what a fifteen minute city is lol. Enough with the fear mongering
@@scottdorsey8220 BOOOO Scary 15 minute cities means you will have public transport at your doorstep and all places you need to travel to on a daily basis in a 15 minute radius!!! Scary!!! (this comment was sponsored by the car lobby. buy more cars. think less.)
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 And, you'll be a nice debt slave as you're surveilled and controlled by Government, with their social credit score and CBDCs. The WEF and WHO will control your environment.
Years ago they did something similar in Chicago instead of charging you for coming into the city they raise the price of parking to compensate for people driving in to the city. It did absolutely nothing but increased revenue for foreign owned parking company. You see the mayor sold the rights for city parking to China along with a toll bridge in order to balance the budget before he left office. Selling off a publicly owned business for a short gain. Possibly the worst decision ever made by a public official. This was done by democrat Richard J Daley, Junior.
I think be sold it to Saudi
@@MrNothingButAir It is owned by Saudi Arabia. Maybe it changed hands?
Fifteen minute cities.
It isn't China. It's Saudi's. It was originally sold off to Morgan Stanley LLC. Daley's son was on the board of Morgan Stanley, at the time. Then it was sold to Saudi's.
@@truthteller4442 I just watched a Peter Santenello video where it was explained.
Should be $53/day. You can do any commute on E-bikes
You know your newscasts needs to be awarded!!!! I am not a New Yorker and I find it interesting and relevant! Thank you for your work!!!
I totally agree! 👏👏👏👏
I 100% concur!
I think you have truly found your calling. You do this reporting good, thorough and unbiased.
@@Mikael-jt1hk Thanks for correcting my grammar.
Indeed!! What an awesome way to use his channel! I’m very impressed! Great work!!! I’m a long time follower and he keeps impressing me constantly!
Yes.... I like these little reports....
“Unbiased”?? He may have presented “both sides”, but clearly he was rooting for 𝙤𝙣𝙚 side more than the other.
It comes down to, if you are a business owner who operates vehicles in Lower Manhattan, you can pay your staff to 𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘, OR you can pay the $23/day per vehicle. Which do YOU think is more expensive?
Unbiased? We must have watched different videos. 🤔
Scheme is the only word that describes this law. Its nothing more then another way to tax the people.
this is a standard tax in many countries in europe because cars shouldn't dominate the urban core of a city.
there is no amount of money on the planet that will make a liberal plan work or fix a problem they either create or make much worse. such a number does not exist.
New York is filthy rat infested, high crime rates why would anybody wanna live in a garbage dump in a first place
@@Phil9874 That's quite misleading.
Many of EU's *biggest* cities have *some* special areas (old towns, historic centers, very central areas, etc.) where there is some extra payments to reduce the worst of car traffic.
We're talking about the most central parts of Paris, Madrid, Rome, etc.
How all of them and most other cities in EU are tackling the car problem though is by improving public transportation and "bikability" of the cities because people need to get to places and cars are just a symptom of the disease.
PS, UK/London doesn't count since you need to be 18 to buy plastic spoons there. They exist in a parallel dimension that just happened to momentarily collide with ours.
@@Phil9874this isn’t Europe and it doesn’t work there either. If your illiterate to economics it sounds like a good idea.
Less traffic in midtown Manhattan is inevitable, it has to be. The amount of New York City traffic, more than 4 million vehicles ever day, is simply unsustainable.
unsustainable? you mean the city will sink into the ocean? or are you just throwing words that progressives paid you to say? nyc had had millions of vehicles for decades. all of a sudden it's "unsustainable" like we are supposed to know what that means?
If they dont double down on making public transport widely available, more efficient, and generally better this just them exploiting another avenue for the governing body to profit off the working class.
What's your problem with NYC's public transport as it is now?
@@warnegoodman They cut budget for the public transportation,busses already insufficient and metro is just terrible. They dont have enough biking lanes nor biking parks. Stroads everywhere making walking dangerous. Like where is the good part, mate? Why do you think people shouldnt complain?
Something very important that this video lefts out is the economic reality of car infrastructure. All the necessary infrastructure that that allows for everyone to own a car and get good use out of it is extremely expensive, year after year. Virtually all cities in America have been unable to keep up with the cost maintaining their roads, let alone expand them in an attempt to ease congestion (which does not really work because of induced demand). When it comes to large metropolitan areas, being the hub of economic activity, most of the taxes that are used to maintain car infrastructure comes from cities, but people living in cities use that infrastructure less than people living on the suburbs which is where most of the traffic comes from, and people living in the suburbs do not pay nearly enough property taxes to cover the cost of car infrastructure both in their suburbs or the city. In short, people living in the city have subsidized car infrastructure that they largely do not benefit from, but that is unsustainable with how expensive it is living in a city. Will congestion pricing work? idk, probably not, but it is not simply bog gov stealing people's money, is an attempt at redistributing the burden of cost of unsustainable car infrastructure more evenly
In conclusion, the issue here is deeper than just controlling congestion and is not just big bad government trying to take your money, the issue is the fundamental economic unsustainability of expecting every working person to own a car rather than designing both suburbs and cities with more efficient modes of mass transportation in mind
Yeah its also kinda crazy how everyone sees only the "negative" part of this, goes to show how car centric america is
I'm so excited to see how this guess. Personally it seems like this will be something people hate for a decade and then when it decreases cars on the road people will begin to enjoy it after a decade or so
This isn't true though. I live in NY and property taxes are cheaper in the city than the suburbs. They also never spend money on the roads they are always fucked up. So not sure where this car infrastructure money is going lol. They don't even spend money to keep the city clean.
bump. This is a huge issue that the city seemingly refuses to do anything else about?
There’s also quite a number of benefits to effectively, massively neutering car traffic beyond this. It might actually become a seriously desirable area to live.
They don't just need better infrastructure. The issue with how we design cities so nobody can walk anywhere is a huge issue.
Londoner here. The "Tube" got a lot of new trains and lines. I stopped using my local train because the new open plan train with smaller seats resulted in more immature people seeing my disability and bullying me. In fact that was part of the reason I left London. 😔 But during rush hour the people are not as squashed so that's good. I also Lived in Manila, Philippines. Instead of congestion pricing they have plate limits, you can only drive a car starting with a certain plate on certain days. The metro is VERY underfunded with only 3 lines for a megacity. The air quality is the worst because smoke belchers are not stopped/ bribe the checks. Congestion fees could fund black smoke checks.
Interesting way to handle CP. I like Manila’s way of doing it as well as a layer on top of CP.
Long live Bladerunners
Some of the people that ride the subway are awful. It’s common enough that you don’t even want to take the subway. I think the solution here is to actually enforce $100 fines for hopping the subway (screw the debate about racism). Increase police presence in subway (cops that are actually willing to hand out fines). Also putting up a new barrier that makes it harder to subway hop. On that issue, if possible, they should put a barrier that prevents people from accidentally or purposely tossing themselves/others/objects into the train tracks. New Yorkers ruin New York and the city government is incompetent to stop it.
@@sanfayyaad Fines are a good idea, but $100 is a lot. More important than a high fine is high likelihood of getting caught.
The MTA shouldn’t have to rely on congestion pricing for funds in the first place, but it’s better than the funds going directly to the state.
The MTA gotta follow through and the easiest thing they could do is more bus lanes. If you could do that and only charge private vehicles, I think congestion pricing could work
Cash your reporting is tops I look forward to your videos I learn so much!
If you work 10 - 12 hr night-shift you have to pay twice, for going in, then driving out.
Then they will start raising the price
There are many other options for especially manhattan commuters than owning and operating a motor vehicle
@@janvanhoyk8375Most subway shutdowns needed for repair work happen at night (roughly 11:30 p.m. - 5:30 a.m.). How are those workers supposed to get to their jobs? You mention numerous options for Manhattan commuters, but those people will be the least effected and harmed by congestion pricing.
@@janvanhoyk8375 Usually yes, although commuter trains do not run at all between 2 am-6am so those who work 3rd shift are screwed.
that is annoying, probably less traffic at that time for cars anyways, but yeah i would think more train service for even those few that work those hours would be great.@@kevinmiller8111
I'm a truck driver from south NJ that delivered to NYC for over a year and you'd be surprised how many businesses get their products delivered from NJ. It's already expensive for commercial vehicles to enter NY, then they have to find parking or get ticketed, which happens a lot, and now you add another fee. SMH. It's like their local government wants to run their own city into the ground.
From what I’ve seen if you come in using a tunnel crossing you don’t pay the fee again
THe cost of doing business,
What they will achieve is to have no one living or doing business there.
THEY DO. WAKE UP.
@@aquarius5719 yall just wanna live in a non walkable dystopia just so you can make more money. Your greed is why the young kill themselves in mass its all about money not quality of life
I think the authorities in New York must have got this idea from London. Where you have to pay in order to drive through certain areas with in the capital.
As a person who lives in the hinterlands of Colorado and has only visited NYC once in 1969(!), I am fascinated by these reports by an “ordinary New Yorker”. It suggests to me that NYC is at or above capacity. The depths to which people are willing to go to stay in a town that obviously doesn’t really value its citizens is curious. That, and the cost of housing and everything else is pretty frightening. We out here in the rest of ‘merica just don’t get it. NYC is an island, it’s outta space. There literally is a limit to how many people can “live” there. Y’all need to maybe visit the rest of the country with an eye to quality of life. Meanwhile, good work, Cash.
Don’t listen to people that think Manhattan is the end all be all of NYC. A lot of people in other boroughs and the suburbs don’t even come into Manhattan.
I understand your viewpoint. I grew up in Colorado, then had a career in NYC, then moved back to (rural) Colorado. I was in NY for over 20 years before the bullshit to benefits scale tilted. Meanwhile, Tokyo central business districts are far more densely congested than NYC. And yet they are able to maintain subway systems that are clean, safe and, reliable.
I'll speak from life experience. I'm a native-New Yorker born and raised for 38 years. Now I live out of state. First time in my life. While I gained wide open spaces and own a home. There were some trade-offs. It truly depends on the person to be honest. The biggest one, NYC is the most diverse city in the world. The way people act, think and work is reflective of that. Other smaller cities can seem "militant" in comparison because of a lack of compassion or understanding. Other reason includes convivences. Tons of options for food, shopping and entertainment. Last are job opportunities. Cost of living can be fierce there, but if there is a job to be had its going to be there. With smaller cities they may just specialize in a particular sector. New York does have it all. But sadly, between COVID, poorly planned social justice reforms, poor mayoral leadership, high tolls, price punishing eco-friendly endeavors on businesses and economic issues. It's like New York wants to check off all these boxes to look accomplished but they aren't helping anyone during these times overall.
You don't know what it has to offer until you're living there. You don't know what you lose until you go elsewhere. Not being aware of the depth of NYC culture and lifestyle, I can only share with you there is nothing else like it. Nothing. Hopefully, in better times it will return to the awesome city that it truly is. Until then I had to put myself to the bench and wait it out.
As someone who,lived in nyc for twenty years and then moved to a number of other cities in America, it is plain and simple. There is nothing like NY, and either you get it or you don’t. Not to say there aren’t a million reasons to move to a place with more space, nature, quality of life but none of that stuff matters if you get hooked on NY. I was in love with the city for fifteen of those twenty years and then I wanted to find a better lifestyle, with more nature. Hard to find in America, unless you go rural, which I don’t like. So I tried Miami, Boston, LA, and then finally Durham, NC. All of it worthwhile but at the end of the day these are all suburbs compared to NY. Most of these places you depend on a car to live there. It’s great to live in a real urban city such as nY where you can take the subway or bus anywhere and everywhere. Also the vibe is deep, and that something you can’t describe. I left a long time ago and am glad I did. I think it’s lost all the coolness and vibrancy it once had. But I am glad I had my chapter there and it will never be repeated, at least not in America. I live in Spain now and the quality of life is fantastic but it’s not NY. I am older so for me, it’s perfect to have a slower placed city. But being young and ambitious in NYC, is the the bomb and I enjoyed it immensely.
@@susanvaughan4210 Tokyo is pretty homogeneous, so they don't experience the "diversity culture" crime and filth NYC does. They also prosecute criminal's, unlike NYC. There are no affirmative action hires in Tokyo, so their city worker's actually have a work ethic, unlike NYC. I'm waiting to see the spike in crime, when the illegal's get kicked to the curb, and have to survive on their own. Watching what's going on in NYC is like watching a poorly written soap opera, with an ignorant director, who equate's to the low IQ, incompetent NYC mayor, making ignorant decision's, time after time. But hey, the majority of NYC voted for him, so they are getting exactly what they deserve. Those smart enough not to have voted for him, need to get the hell out of there.
Cash Jordan - recently found your channel, checked out a few episodes and subscribed! It must be fascinating for those who DON'T live in the NYC area to watch and learn. These will become historical mini-documentaries people could look back on in the decades to follow. Thank you so much I'm turning my friends on to the channel as well. NOW: Congestion pricing? I don't think you covered 1. people who live inside the zones who have vehicles (commercial and non-commerical) ((what a pain in the ass to have to do the paperwork even IF being offered a discount)) AND don't believe you covered people who live in the CZ who need their cars to go to work OUTSIDE the city where there are no subways, trains, buses either that don't go door to door, run irregularly or don't exist - so what happens? One pays exorbitant garage fees or leapfrogs your vehicle to find parking, you go to work and come back paying for gas, tolls AND congestion pricing? No car? Take a taxi and already it's $100 just to go to Queens from Manhattan! I'm all for more bike lanes and improved public transportation... but the MTA is so corrupt... and disadvantaged neighborhoods taking another hit while the city squanders money elsewhere? NYC a haven for 'let's do it and THEN see if it works".
With rent prices of over 6k for a broom closet in Manhattan, I'd guess the inhabitants are able to afford the congestion charges and the rising prises coming with that.
Will immigrants pay this also? And how?
@@kristifreeman5830I'm sure the economic migrants wont have to pay a penny.
@@kristifreeman5830With the free money they already get.
There’s no good reason to own a car if you live and work in Manhattan. Get on the bus! Or the subway!
No because if they live in manhattan they wont own a car Why would they?
@@citizenoftheninthdivision
If you want people to choose other alternatives, those other alternatives need to be better than the one they're doing currently that you're trying to get them to stop. New York doesn't have any better options for them.
Also, people don't change their habits that quickly. This needs to be done over time slowly.
I love that you do these features along with the real estate videos. Very informative and well done.
When Cash delves into a topic he covers pros😊 and cons and explores ALL aspects of the issue.
I started to follow you when you were only doing tour of New York appartements, and I must say, I like the path your channel took 😉
The only way this would be a valid system and argument for solving the problem, is if New York's public transit system was actually really good. So there was an actual viable alternative that didn't involve people using a dilapidated system that means they're risking their life every time they get on it. The New York Subway is way below average. So there is no good public transit alternative for New York City.
Good reporting ! You go right to the point !
It amazes me that they always find a new excuse to steal our money. You can travel to Seoul, Tokyo, or Paris and they have the most amazing clean transit systems (Paris trains aren’t clean but are very extensive) and they do not charge any toll road fees. So how are they able to do it but here in America, they find so many ways to charge the people?
Because the cities you named were built with people in mind rather than large SUVs. Transforming North American cities into a European or Japanese style design Will require huge investments, and more particularly a change in people's behaviors and expectations.
What's for sure is that life in a European city like Basel in Switzerland, or Amsterdam in the Netherlands is far better than what we have anywhere in North America
Like the other comment said, yea, these cities weren’t designed to be car-centric, but another reason is taxes. Those places either have higher taxes or more of their tax budget dedicated towards public transportation. In America, not only was the infrastructure never established, local governments fail at properly spending on public transport due to a lack of funding and public interest, or just straight up poor spending choices.
The US is so far deep into it now that it’d be a colossal financial effort to fix it that not many Americans are willing to compromise for. That’s the unfortunate reality, which breeds stupid rules like these.
All those cities, yes, all, including London have CONGESTION PRICING. LOL.
Americans want to own a car, a home, etc.. in Tokyo the apartments a VERY small, and average people do not own cars. They literally work and own nothing.
Corruption and greed my friend. Welcome to America .😊
Another big issue is that there are many commuters who need to travel from NJ to Queens. NJ commuters who might want to take the 59th St Bridge will need to pay the full congestion fee just to travel a few blocks to get to the bridge. This is truly ridiculous.
This is something that's never talked about for some reason. I'll add that people will not get to leave Long Island, Brooklyn or Queens anymore without paying in some way. When I lived in Queens, I used to always take the 59th Street bridge ----> FDR----> I-87 anytime I needed to get upstate as the MTA bridges were too expensive. Islanders are now painted into a corner and can't even leave their own state without paying a toll. That's ridiculous. Fortunately I'm out of that highly corrupt state now.
Literally 99 percent of commuters take trains or a bus.
@@Nutter-l3sFr
I use the FDR to leave the city too. But you still can't get back home without paying
That's the entire point. there is limited road space in lower manhattan and people who are just passing through are adding to the congestion without either working there or spending any money there. so they make the quality of life of those in lower manhattan worse off without contributing anything.
The subways are just as congested too and the price for taking the train went up. This is just another money grab
The recent editorial shift to larger questions than just those related to real estate is allowing you to exercise your best skills to the fullest. Well done.
We already have congestion pricing aka tolls in the Midtown tunnel. Ppl are now making their license plates harder to read while going over bridges because NY relies on cameras to take pics of license plates to charge these tolls. I guarantee more license plates will be altered. Congestion pricing will not solve the problem. Make subways safer and more people will use them again. I remember a time when the police were on trains all night and even if someone was sleeping on their way to work, the police would wake them up and make them get off. There were no homeless people taking over a car and 💩💩💩 in an actual car.
Those people obscuring their plates are playing with fire. The MTA police has been doing gradual enforcement of toll evaders on bridges and they will seize your car and send it straight to auction to pay for your toll evasion. It's the NYPD that gives no shits to enforce anything on streets.
It costs money to make the subways safer, cleaner, on time and not overcrowded. How would you suggest they get that money? I say TAX THE HELL OUT OF THE RICH ! What do you say? I you don't like what's going on in NYC, leave it; find a different path for yourself.
@@virginiamoss7045 lol, tax the rich and they will leave... in 2020, the top 2.5% of city taxpayers, when ranked by income, paid 51.6% of the city’s personal income tax collections
Cops are too busy at school board meetings.
i support everyone that dodges the system by altering their plates.
Watching from London UK we're already there and then some....just wait until they extend your zone, they will 🫡🫣
I wouldn’t mind having to take the subway if they actually used the money to improve it instead of wasting it
Last I heard, California (born and raised here) will be making all of us pay a per mile fee starting in the early 2030’s. States will make a cash grab any way they can, promising whatever they can. Then commandeer the funds for something else. It’s disgusting. Awhile back a .30¢ per gallon gas tax was dumped on us, promising highway/road repairs. A couple of years later, that tax was was (and still is) used for something COMPLETELY different. Of course I don’t remember what exactly it is; there’s so much crap going on here that nobody can keep up.
That gas tax has been completely useless. Highway 50 here in Sacramento has been under construction since the pandemic begun, and it won't be done until 2025 supposedly. It's made traffic much worse during rush hours, and honestly some of it probably just goes back into Newsom's paycheck
California residents get what they voted for!
Have you read the book California Burning by Katherine Blunt? Fires happened and people died because they were too cheap to fix infrastructure. Still happening with the Maui wildfires, floods in NY, toxic smoke from fires throughout NYC and Midwest all because of infrastructure neglect. Dr. Shiva Ayadurai explains it well. He was the only one who brought up need for infrastructure repair while politicians were busy locking people down with their weekly boosters.
@@Hello-rl6lp: True! We ALL pay for what the *majority* - though not I - voted for.
@@Hello-rl6lp Not ALL of us voted for this and were not happy so dont generalize !!!!!!!!!!!!!
American here that once lived in Japan for 2 years. I believe cycling could be a great alternative for many people.
So they need to invest more in it and discourage driving... like congestion pricing.
@@DagaenGolomb yeah exactly
but the US car lobby is too strong in the US.
I mean look how they somehow were able to denounce 15 minute city concepts. I still can't get my head around how quickly they were able to do that haha.
Visited the US once. Never again. The need for a car for every single errand is horrible.
@@DagaenGolombif biking is better than driving then why do you need to discourage driving? I think cycling just sucks
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 The reason why they disnounced 15 minute cities is because people aren't stupid dude. lol. People like me who work in the oil field have to drive to work, there isn't "Public" transport around here. It started with covid all the scheming and scheming they did? This isn't new. NYC is a cesspool of just BS from the years and years of bad polcies are catching up. US Carlobby isn't exactly strong, you must not realize the US is a company basically lmao.
@@CineZoneYT We don't need to discourage driving. We are already massively SUBSIDIZING it. All we need to do is stop subsidizing it. Congestion pricing is to reflect the true cost on individuals and society from driving.
I dont think NYC needs a billion cars on the road. It might actually be easier to get to places with a few less.
Beef up public transit and have things like zip car be more available for those longer treks.
Also, with the way building codes work, having to force parking spaces into new constructions, disinsentivising cars, and allowing for the appropriate changes will allow for more affordable housing, which people do in fact need in a city.
Though it's a fact that america has to move away from cars eventually, removing the cars before creating other options is a bad idea. Should have improved public transportation substantially before doing this
Ahh yes let folks be terrorized by the homeless looney toons and thugs. Just glad I don’t live in that shit state and city
The problem is that the roads infrastructure was built back when horses were used for transportation so now that cars exist there’s not much to build onto when the skyscrapers are packed so tightly together
@NaNoRarh made no sense
@slapshotjack9806
They don't need to build anything different just have less cars on the road, more busses and try to get people to use scooters more in the city. Imagine how much easier it would be to get around.
"All you can do is suddenly react when it is inflicted upon you!"... That is a very ominous
and true statement!!! We really enjoy all your videos!! Thank you!!! ❤😂🎉
The reason NY doesn't have enough bike and bus lanes is because city planners are afraid of the impact that reallocation of space would have on traffic, or because people are afraid of losing parking spaces.
With the reduced volume of traffic due to congestion pricing, that frees up the space to add that infrastructure. It's a lot easier to get a parking lane replaced with a bike lane when there isn't anyone parking there.
One thing that wasn't mentioned with the London example is that while travel speeds did not improve a lot, the volume of traffic did reduce quite a bit, allowing for an incredible amount of space that used to be for auto traffic to be turned into bus lanes, bike lanes, and pedestrian areas.
In Utica NY, they put in bike lanes on main St thru the city, after 1 month people went to city hall and complained 😮. Bike lanes were removed.. unbelieveable. Obviously I ride a bike. I just don't understand some people
It's not perfect, but compared to 10 to 15 years ago, it is utterly transformational. You only saw bike messengers in the past. Remember that old 180's movie Quick Silver. It was crazy scary and dangerous to ride a bike in NYC back in the day. Today there are great bike lanes all over the place. Many are completely separated from cars. It's far from perfect, but it's remarkably descent. Next time I go back I'm bringing my bike helmet and going for some rides. I was shocked by how many City-Bikes I saw being used. During rush hour, evenings and the week there was a never ending stream of people using the short term rental bikes on the nicer bike lanes that were fully separated from car traffic. The new e-bike rentals are especially popular. The City-Bikes are heavy duty and therefore weight a lot (like old fashioned Dutch bikes), good for holding up on short commuted, but not fast. E-bike power makes it accelerate like a sporty lightweight bike. Most people are riding in regular clothes. Most need to go less than a few miles. It's just that walking at a good pace is 4 mph, but with traffic lights you are probably slowed down to around 3 mph. Bike can easily go 1o to 12 mph so you get there fast. Much of Manhattan cycling looked less scary than my 32 mile (round trip) bike commute from a suburb of Buffalo to downtown.
Based. The NIMBYs in the comments are going by their feelings, not studying actual city planning and urban design research.
I've been watching all these New York videos...they are amazing, insightful and informative. As an Aussie, It honestly sounds and looks like a third world country. I've never been more grateful to live where I do, so thankyou for reminding me of that.
The rest of the us is even poorer to :(.
You're very lucky that you're so isolated.
As someone who lives in New York, it doesn’t feel like a third country at all lol. Less cars ≠ bad
@@jaykay1899Millions of adult children at 40 IQ = bad.
You do realize that the United States is the country and the country is MASSIVE. Nice overgeneralization by comparing NYC to all of the country. I live in a part of the US that's peaceful, clean, forested and affordable.
Cash- Outstanding reporting. Your content choices are fabulous. I thoroughly enjoy your delivery and how you use your environment so well. I just have to say you are so very interesting to watch.
Thank you for your never ending interest in NYC. They need you man.
Keep going!☮️👏👏👏👏
NYC is currently paying about $440 a day to house each illegal immigrant currently living in the city. Let’s be honest, they don’t care about the traffic. Taxing people driving in to the city will not reduce congestion because no one is driving in Manhattan for fun. All those cars are for employees or transportation services. NY is basically taxing transportation workers even more to earn more money to help their migrant crisis. The solution to their financial crisis is to take MORE money from taxpayers to house people who illegally entered the country and who get to live for free in the country’s most expensive city.
NYC is housing illegal foreigners who do not work or pay taxes at the cost of the taxpayer. I wonder how long this system will function before they end up like Venezuela, Cuba, or the USSR.
You get what you vote for. The people of New York supported the idea of providing for illegals and now they don't want to pay? Too bad, you'll pay indirectly. They will cut your public services and charge you extra taxes and fees. You don't get to say you'll do something and then when it comes time not do it
In Seattle they want to do this too. But the money will go to the "general fund" and then it disappears... no one kniws where it goes. We have a "sugar tax" in the city limits, sugar tax on all drinks.. except starbucks of course. They first said the money would go to the lower income folks with vouchers for fruits and vegetables .. nope the millions go to the general fund and disappears. It takes me 1.25 hrs to drive into work, it would take 4 hrs on trains and busses each way. 2.5 hrs a day vs 8 hrs commutung to work
It goes to dIVersiTY eQuitY and inCLUSion.
And a by the mile tax on top of taxes at the pump. They would run simultaneously for ten years
if you drive 1.25 hrs to get to work everyday, you already have a problem. no one needs to subsidize your commute by paying for road maintenance (millions of $$$) when you could've just found housing closer to your workplace. the lack of public transit and housing infrastructure is also another huge issue brought by policies like parking minimums and exclusionary zoning laws. not sure what the sugar tax has to do with the 1.25 hour commute. If you want to actually see where the money goes, get involved with local politics and don't just ingest online media at face value. read the policy documents. get involved and be the change you want to see
When i started working at my job 20 yrs ago, it was a 20 minute commute. I do not earn the 200k a year, needed to live closer to work. We have one of the highest property costs and rent costs in the US. Of course i will veg your forgiveness for not living next door to my job, or for even commenting. Never will i comment again.
Based. We need to do this everywhere.
New Yorkers better rise up. They increased subway trains fares too. Time to do something ASAP
Rise up? They voted for this, year after year
lol there will be no revolution happening@@Kenoi_
Genuinely asking: why do you think New Yorkers like traffic? Do you not think we want less noise and pollution from cars?
Yeah, move.
Yeah… move
Giant municipal subsidies like we just started in Atlanta for e-bike purchases will need to be the bare minimum answer.
Probably need to subsidize a large amount of rail transfers too
Love these in depth reports on costs of living and doing business in NYC. Pretty crazy. If I were in my 30’s I’d be trying to live a sustainable off grid lifestyle.
Cash your channel deserves recognition it has grown into an award worthy unbiased informative NY news channel 👏
Bottled water is poison
This is far from unbiased. I came in blind into this channel not knowing what to expect and the right lean was obvious from the first five minutes.
@@dsp4392yes same here though idk if I would call him right leaned compared to the other Americans, he just seems to be another econo"liberal"ist to me which is "left" in America afaik
That’s just going to force the cars to go on other avenues to avoid the tolls which is gonna cause more congestion elsewhere. Unless they do it on every avenue where you can’t avoid it no matter what.
That is the plan. Everything below 60th from east to west.
Except FDR.@@mitchgross592
Or hear me out - people use the subway and pubic transportation because that’s what it’s for. Less available roads never really equates to less traffic like many people fear it does. In fact building more roads often creates more traffic
@@jaykay1899play with your poopies, adults are talking.
@@jaykay1899I lived in nyc all my life. The subway won’t be able to handle that influx of people. In normal rush hours the subway platform becomes overcrowded thus dangerous. Also the subway aren’t always running even buses don’t go to all places
Good!!! There’s no need for a car in NYC. Take the subway. Never understood people who live there and still keep a car. 🤷🏼♂️
just wanna say the video articulation, the breaks, the camera angles, the usage of footage over talking makes the video very pleasant to watch, youre a very skilled videographer, keep up the good content
They have a $507 million contract for the camera sensors...they have money to control you ....NYCCP
Folk here in uk have been sawing them down with angle grinders😂
With all the ladboys here they never look up from their phones to notice. I pray some rise to the task here
I think commercial vehilces should be exempt from the congestion fee, its the personal vehicles that average 1.5 occupants that waste so much space. The trucks carrying a large amount of goods belong on the roads. Also there might be the possibility that companies might be able to charge less because if there are no personal vehicles on the road they could deliver goods way more efficiently (I have not run any numbers, this is my making a guess). We really need to be providing good alternatives to driving so personal vehciles aren't needed as often. Cars waste so much space and are hard to maneuver when you've got thousands of them. Cars and dense cities do not mix
Problem is that only way to actually fix this problem is with better infrastructure and public transport. Doing this is just going to hurt people with less money. If you actually do things right, people would just choose to walk, use bikes and use public transit, which would reduce cars naturally.
They should just do huge interconnected infrastructure plan, and then implement it piece by piece as it becomes possible. Ultimately all "solutions" I heard in this video are just for mitigating the problem, no steps to solve it.
Cash this video is phenomenal! As always, such a nuanced and well-researched take on a super complex political/social NYC dilemma! *Especially* appreciated your mention of the possible impacts on the Bronx towards the end - have been thinking about this but never considered the issue with as much stark and concerning contrast as you shared it. I have no doubt that your videos are beginning to shape some public opinion and even policy talks in the city.
Isn't the Bronx getting new service to Penn Station though? He failed to mention those projects which are also going to balance out impact of this plan.
is it rly nuanced if it's just telling the story from one POV?
He didn't touch on options like cargobikes and the problems that come with any car infrastructure (such as it costing way more than what will be spent on public transportation and this cost not being distributed fairly) and while it is nice to rant about the problems of the new policies he didn't propose any alternative which I definitely would if I wanted to make a nuanced take on a topic
It is a tax grab for the government. The issue here is that while international cities like London or Singapore have implemented these congestion chargers, they live in cities with the best public transport systems in the world. I have travelled to London extensively while studying abroad and taking the tube or subway was so rewarding. I didn't feel like I needed a car to visit many of the beautiful areas and towns in England. Nearly all the towns, even small ones, had a train line with multiple lines running daily. Very well run, albeit with a few strikes here and there. The issue with NYC is that they don't have that level of public transport, especially for those who commute from New Jersey into Queens. On top of paying bridge tolls, taxes, and everything else, this 23-dollar fee is ridiculous. I really doubt they will use this money well
Your points are why all the money is going to the MTA to make it better. Whether that actually happens or not remains to be seen but if they can improve the subway in a meaningful way this’ll be worth it imo.
NYC transit isn't perfect, but it's the best in the US by far. The majority of people in NYC do not have a car. Rich people may not want to get on the subway with regular working folk, but then they can suck up and pay $20.
Even if the money is burned and does nothing of value, reducing cars on the streets is a good thing. Cash even acknowledges this. If congestion moving from lower Manhattan north is bad for those areas, why is it okay for the area traffic is currently in? Maybe the congestion zone should be bigger...
@@FriendlyFireYTthe best in the US isn’t really saying anything as most other cities have some of the worst public transport of any major city in the western world
This is a chicken and egg issue and without shifting away from cities that prioritize cars over people, the U.S is never going to become as walkable and livable as European cities.
@@FriendlyFireYT It's not the regular working folk you want to avoid on the NY subway. Regular working folk want to avoid those people, too.
From the west coast to the Golden triangle in Texas, "revenue" schemes like this only hurt the poor...in my personal experience
Another very informative and entertaining video. I ride a regular bike but not in NYC. I enjoy the old school pedaling style. The exertion is great! That would be my only concern with e-bikes: you don't get much exercise if any at all. People need to exercise or face major health problems. Cycling is a good way to get and stay fit; plus, it gets you where you need to go.
Part of the problem with bikes is the theft rate in NYC. 15,000 reported stolen each year and cops believe only 20% are reported.
@@mikep490 That's a fact! I never leave my bike unattended. I keep it in line of vision (locked) and never more than five seconds away from me. If I had a folding bike (say, a Brompton with 16 inch wheels, making it pretty small), I'd take it in stores with me. If that were not allowed, then I'd shop elsewhere. Basically, don't leave your bike unattended.
Dude, I'm really liking your exploratory videos. As a NYer with no SM following, this is the exact same type of video I would make if I could. I hate how expensive it already is to get in and out of the City - the GWB (and other PANYNJ crossings) is $17 cash! The MTA bridges and tunnels are already $7 per trip ($11 without EZ Pass). I'm scared to see the effect CP will have on small businesses and their prices - we know for sure all those delivery vans and commercial trucks are not going to get off on 60th Street and take the trains further south in order to avoid those tolls. They are definitely going to pass on the expenses to the businesses which will then have to pass on the expenses to the end user! This is such a bad idea it's crazy. And to think they are floating the idea of keeping the tolls active 24/7, even at night when there's no congestion
he does make great content. it's just a shame he wont go near the sacred cow, which is going to skyrocket along with prices:
crime & and who is doing it.
it's okay buddy, shhh shhh bring it in, bring it in.
@@an0therdimensi0n99 pretty sure he did a video about stores closing and the reason being crime and retail theft! But give him time he's slowly stepping into this coming from strictly apartment rental videos... Also I'd like to see more videos focusing on the extreme cost of living in NYC and rent being astronomical...
Consider leaving. I did. Much happier since then. Such a cramped life, so many things I didn’t do because I couldn’t afford it.
Now it’s extra life every day.
@@LilyGazou it's not a bad idea, trust me. But with all its bad, this is still the greatest city in the world and my roots are pretty deep here. We'll see what the future holds!
It's $23 maximum a car which is a rounding error for most businesses. Drivers who destroy the environment and cause noise pollution with their cars need to start paying the full price of the damages they cause.
New York consistently finding new ways of becoming the worst place to live for your money
Enjoy owning a quickly depreciating asset, paying for gasoline, parking, and the upkeep of a single family home in Texas, I guess?
@@janvanhoyk8375: I have a nephew who lives in Texas with his wife and one son. The cost
of living is STILL much lower that New York or California. In fact, people from NY and CA are
MOVING there for that lower cost of living. (Just saying - ya *_pay_* what ya *_get_* for.)
@@SouLoveReal Yes, cost of living in much of that area will probably always be lower cost than NYC, dense areas tend to cost more and pay more. Cost of living =/= quality of life (in either direction), but there is a correlation for sure. I think a lot of americans in suburban areas balk at the idea of paying more in cost of living but are unfamiliar with the many benefits (and places where money is saved) of living in denser areas.
@@janvanhoyk8375the cost of living in most of Texas is rapidly increasing due to the lack of dense development
@@SouLoveReal So TX is a pit but at least it's cheap?
Sounds like another law made by wealthy people to make themselves feel better whilst also not hurting themselves because they’re wealthy.
nah its to keep outsiders from comming into the city easily and clogging the city up. people in the city have a right to prevent outsiders from comming in if they want to. you dont live there. they do. stop forcing your entitlement on them.
@@zerotheligerwealthy people take car services. The toll won’t affect them at all. And what kind of bs is it that people who live outside of the city but work in the city, should be kept out? If that’s the way you feel, don’t leave manhattan. We don’t want you in our neighborhoods either.
@@southernparadise9896 thats fine then the city wants to stop subsidizing yalls suburbs next. yall can pay for your own roads, land usage, utilitie lines, and sewage systems. instead of leeching off cities.
we will see how long yall can handle your taxes skyrocketing when real cost of home ownership hits
@@zerotheligerthis bs is 100% not going to work. This is purely for money
@@zerotheliger 😂😂 I live rurally in another state. I’m a poultry farmer. Let’s see how long y’all stay alive when we stop sending food into the city 😂😂
The reality is that if existing congestion pricing isn't working, it'll only increase until it finally does. If you can, please switch to bike/bus/train. Leave the city roads to commercial vehicles.
I think you’ve found your calling. I’ve been enjoying your climate related posts. You’re an unbiased news broadcaster.
Cash- Honestly, as much as I love your real estate videos, I think I like your NYC update videos even more. And I've never lived in NYC! (But I always felt like I belonged there). You do topics that media won't touch. Great work!
True. But he better watch out. If he goes too hard against the establishment narrative, he will get banned.
You must be insane to wanna be in NYC
I love NYC and worked in Midtown. I would rarely eat dinner there because getting out of work, one just goes home, but even though I had a bus pass myself, my family didn't, so to go out to eat in Manhattan you'd have to pay for the bus or drive in pay the toll and parking which was exorbitant then, now its just that much more,. So the city might make $23/day off the people who do come, that which is seen, but how much will they lose from the people who don't come, that which is unseen? Hard to tell, right?
Two teen girls stabbed in Grand Central Terminal while visiting NYC on Christmas Day! Subway sounds like a great alternitive.
It's weird how I'm both frustrated and happy this is happening. On one hand, I've noticed it's a lot easier to drive through midtown. And I mean a LOT. I remember one time driving towards the Holland and I was stuck in traffic for least 2 hours...and I was just driving up 5 blocks. Now I can get through those same 5 blocks in 30 minutes or less... On the other hand, I'm getting charged something like $46 everytime I decided to drive in.
so it's doing what it's supposed to do
How long is 5 blocks? I feel like even walking would be faster than driving if it still takes 30 minutes.
@@roller12coaster depends. If you're driving down a street rather than an avenue, it could take a while. I was referring to driving down ....I think it's 38th?
@@edd868 No idea how long that is, I'm not from NY or the US.
This hasn't gone into effect yet...?
they really need to up their transportation system.. start adding train routes above the streets or something like that
They are. The Gateway tunnel and Metro North will start adding train service to NYP
It sounds like walking is faster than driving so just cut out the cars.. do bikes or something
nyc has the best public transit in America and the surrounding tristate area is easily navigable by train. wtf ru talking about
@@jimmystanley7054Ngl, parts of Brooklyn and Queens are still transit deserts and could def use more above-ground trains. At the very least, they should make all existing LIRR infrastructure $2.90 within the city.
@@jimmystanley7054 lol yea the system may be super nasty and ancient but the routes and frequency are better than most European ones. Over 400 stations are no joke, actually the largest metro system in the world by station numbers
Hopping the train or bus doesn’t lose money for Transit Authorities. It’s the lack reliability, safety, cleanliness, and convenience that is driving people away from using their local amenities.
Reduce the salaries of "elected," officials, and use it to improve public transportation. It's so exceedingly simple. Why hasn't this happened? Because of out of control, rampant corruption.
People don’t like it but eventually is going to be across the country and the world. Why? Just look at the World Economic Forum’s outlook for 2030.
“You will own nothing & you will be happy”
They have been doing it in my city for 2 years now. We have a system where if your car's plate number ends in an odd or pair number you can't use it on odd or pair days from 6 am to 9 pm, and if you want to use it you have to pay from $15 to $30 depending on your car. Many people have opted to buy another car with a different plate number which made car prices rise.
The problem is we don't have a decent transportation system that justifies this, and they just get richer and richer. They have collected millions that are supposed to be invested in public transportation but they are nowhere to be seen
People obviously like it cuz they voted for it. I don’t live in the city but I like it.
Less cars ≠ taking away your freedoms
It means having more options. Public transport is less expensive than maintaining a car anyways. Not everything is connected to a grand conspiracy
@@fuckngcnt Similar in Colombia (Pico Y Placa)
I live in NYC (not for much longer) and NY residents vote like fools. They can have it all
Wild considering how much car payments and insurance has gone up over the past few years
It's the price you pay for the privilege of driving.
Really? Have you seen all the luxury SUVs and Pickup trucks on the road nowadays? Don't you think you should blame the consumer just a little for insane car payments and insurance going up as a consequence?
Plus parking and gas when you get there smh. If citizens don't fight back it will probably be adopted by more major cities.
@@neilsimmons9582 If only there were some other way to get around New York City other than driving. Hopefully someday they'd put in some transit, like a subway perhaps.
@@TheSJCieply Make the public transportation/bike infrastructure better so more people will use it.
The problem isnt City Revenue the problem is revenue mismanagement.
This cash grab will hurt working people like myself. I commute through Manhattan everyday and I refuse to pay $23 just to work.
Also MTA will squander this money. Nothing will get fixed.
take the bus
I’m a classical musician living on Long Island and a lot of the best work for us is in Manhattan. At the times I had to be in the city (generally Sunday mornings and weekday late evenings) it was cheaper, quicker, and COVID safer for me to drive using the 59th St. bridge for my gigs which were almost entirely uptown. Now I’d have to pay the congestion pricing fee just for one block? Or pay upwards of $30-35 just for one day of the miserable LIRR + subway. I could fill my tank to full for the same cost as one LIRR round trip and get 2, maybe 3 round trips to the city driving. Musicians already make terrible money to begin with, and costs are going up and up while wages stay stagnant. It’s either pay the unrealistic, exorbitant rent, or get nickel-and-dimed at every exhausting commute. I just left my all-pro church choir post of 4 years in the UWS for a higher paying position much closer to home. Glad that job found me when it did.
ya why i stopped taking NJ gigs. Use to be free to get out of NYC and only toll on way back. Now Verrazzano is both way toll, or its gonna cost another $23 just to get to the holland tunnel. They need roads under Manhattan so we can get out of the city without having to drive in the toll zones.
Stop using covid as an excuse. 🤦🏾♂️ The commuter trains on LI are cheaper than gas.
Once again I must tell you...Your delivery engaging.
Camera work....Creative.
Natural tones...easy flow.
Cash, you and your team are really moving uo some levels recently.
Class A job!
~Red
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This Administration must go. This is F*****G Ridiculous
We shouldn't call them tolls or congestion pricing. It is an additional TAX. Add it to your sales tax, property tax, income tax, state tax and all the fees that are hidden taxes and room taxes for hotels. Tax! Tax! Tax! Nice reporting.
Not a tax on me cause I don’t drive!
@@Iponamann possibly but it will likely be passed on to anyone that buys products in that area. Nothing is perfect but I personally am voting against anyone that is trying to raise taxes. I appreciate your perspective.
@@Iponamann If you live there you probably don't pay the hotel tax, either. That's why it is so hard to say which state or urban area will tax any given person the least.
It's a tax that's optional if you own a car. However, drivers are already very heavily subsidized via free to use roads and free parking (the tax collected on drivers only pays about half the cost of roads and free parking). Simply put, drivers do not and have never paid their fair share of their cost of driving.
Maybe people really like taxes? We have a toll situation developing in Oregon in Portland and magically the amount of the toll taxes being announced are almost exactly people's disposable income. I get some people in NY don't have cars but out West you have to have a car to work.
"poor people will suffer and the wealthy will be unaffected"
Poor people will take a more well funded public transit system at the expense of rich drivers
A problem created by greed and solving it by more greed.
a problem created by american naive dumbness
Good, Americans need to start not depending on cars. Also paying to drive should make it so traffic doesn’t even happen as much, basically paying a premium