NYC is Banning Cars… Unless You Pay $23/Day
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Congestion pricing is coming to the big apple, and its a big deal.
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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
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
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.
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.
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.👍
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?
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?
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?
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
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.
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😂😂
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
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.
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.
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
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 .😊
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 💀💀
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 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
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
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.
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
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 😂😂
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.
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?
I wouldn’t mind having to take the subway if they actually used the money to improve it instead of wasting it
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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
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. 🤔
I am a SMART and proud New Yorker and voted for the Current SMART NYC mayor and for Joe Biden.
I am so happy about what's going on.
I love paying higher taxes, more fees, more tolls, earning less, etc., because this is what we all voted for and must NOT complain and OBEY the Mayor of New York City and OBEY Joe Biden.
Joe Biden 2024
I don't understand how you pay taxes for public services like roads... Then they go and charge again to use the roads you already paid for...
because the MTA isnt run as a more self sustaining business. MTA is run as a power grab by NYS officials. That being said why shouldn’t people contribute to the maintenance of the reduction they use? We pay for the subway per trip. Why not pay to use the roads and bridges with your personal vehicle per trip? The wear and tear justify the money being collected. Most of these jokers coming from NJ complaining will be taking away free parking from tax paying NYC residents. 🤔
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.
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?
Should be $53/day. You can do any commute on E-bikes
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.
I live in NYC (not for much longer) and NY residents vote like fools. They can have it all
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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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
Why does every politician think that making people pay for things is going to magically make the problem go away?
They don't, it's just the government taxing the people more. Nothing more, nothing less.
Because that's how supply and demand works under capitalism. You make something more expensive, fewer people will want to do it/buy it. If something is cheap or free, you encourage people to take advantage of it.
@@AshleyBromiley there’s the concept of inelastic demand where raising price doesn’t necessarily reduce its consumption. Like insulin, housing, water. Transportation is in this category too since people can’t get basic necessities without it
@@Emmie-kn1mxglad you agree capitalism doesn't work
Because it generally does.
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.
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
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.
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!
NYC is a dumpster fire, with the citizens inside saying: "This is fine".
Yup! By reading some of these comments, you are correct. Lack of oxygen to a certain body part
I live in the NYC metropolitan area and, the radio stations claim it’s the greatest city in the world 😂 As if! Not even the greatest city in US. Too many someone’s drinking the kool-aid.
Definitely. It's unbelievable how they think being regulated about everything is fine. Wait until Hochul comes out with a Breathing Air Tax.
@@suzannemarienau2760 breathing air tax is coming..watch. They will find a way to do it and the 🐑 will believe and defend it.
Well, that is not a ban, it's extortion.
Cars don’t have the right to drive wherever they want. It’s not extortion to charge a fair value for an asset
@@craigspencer2826 what’s fair about this? It ensures that only the most wealthy can afford to drive a car. Either on their way to the WEF or returning from Klaus’s
latest attempt to destroy our lives. He’s not even offering cake! Nope, while the elites eat their Kobe steak and drive or are driven in one of their many cars, the rest of the schmucks are forced to take a bus, taxi or trains and we get worms in our future. I don’t live in NY,thank God. I have my own vehicle and I drive when and where I want. (In legal terms) if my state tries to force me into mass transit. I will move to a state that doesn’t.
PS. I had a Hybrid which I loved until the car broke and Ford couldn’t fix it. I have a new SUV and it is gas. Not buying into the daily propaganda. And yes, it is still extortion or a forced persuasion if you enjoy changing the meaning.
If you live in New York, you would know that cars are obsolete and should eventually be phased out.
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.
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.
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
Damn...New York really hates poor people
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.
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
If the pricing was about congestion then they wouldn't be charging motorcycles to use the toll roads. It is all about finding new ways to make revenue.
motorcyles aren't as wasteful space-wise as automobiles, but are obviously much more wasteful than public transit.
@@janvanhoyk8375 Public transit is worse than motorcycles, hundreds of buses will do more damage to roads than thousands of motorcycles. Look at India, they barely ever have to do maintenance on roads as motorcycles cause little to no wear while being more than capable of providing millions of people affordable and efficient transportation.
Public transit can't stop at each individuals house, motorcycles can.
@@Waldo1122 Busses transport people more safely and comfortably and densely than motorocycles, not to mention with less emissions per capita. Busses do not have to stop at each house, especially in NYC where it is relatively dense. Last mile problems still exist but walkability is not bad in much of NYC, and solutions like bicycles/even scooters exist in abundance now. I don't think its useful to compare indian cities to american cities given the vast population pattern/economic differences.
@@Waldo1122 bruh the condition of roads in india is horrendous and public transit is extremely unreliable and also unsafe(I don't mean a homeless guy having a mental episode, I mean the bus driving away before you've gotten off it properly). though I agree that motorcyclists should be charged half price at most.
@@janvanhoyk8375 Comparing Indian cities to New York is perfectly accurate. New York is filthy, congested, horrible roads and filled with crime that the government has no intention on solving.
Walk ability is only getting worse, people regularly use the bicycle lane as a sidewalk due to congested sidewalks. Last mile is a major problem.
NYC needs $12+ billion to pay for asylum seekers
A quick FYI for everyone, in the affected area, only 35% of trips were taken with a car. That number is already quite high and was as low as 23% before the pandemic. Most people are not going to be directly affected. The vast majority that are can easily take NYC’s transit or bike. Those that can’t have the option of tax credits refunding what they pay on tolls if they make less than $60,000 a year, or discounts if they’re merely poor. The money generated by this is likely to be used for infrastructure projects and can be used to increase transit coverage, frequency, and reliability making the congestion pricing less impactful on people, along with the bike network to increase the range of people that can make it to transit.
Cars are not necessarily needed to transport most goods, other cities have found workarounds like cargo bikes, and unless a shop absolutely needs daily deliveries, it’s doubtful that $23 split among the tens of thousands of dollars of goods a truck can haul is going to increase the final rates all that much. The price of shrimp caught in the last six hours will certainly increase, but I expect for the people that regularly eat that, the price going up will be a good thing because that means that instead of bragging about their $100 meal, they can brag about their $125 meal.
As for businesses, time and time again, studies have shown that when an overly congested business area reduces the amount of cars driving in a location (and that’s what consumption taxes like these do, they discourage using the service, in this case valuable roadspace in one of the most densely packed locations in the world), businesses tend to do better as people walking by are more likely to stop in and shop than someone driving by, fewer cars make spending time at the location more pleasant, and previous parking spaces can be transformed into outdoor seating increasing the capacity of a business.
I agree and there are so many more benefits you did not even mention. This policy is a huge step in the right direction and it is sad to see the seemingly majority of people be opposed to it. Economic literature heavily supports implementing these types of incentives.
It’s just a big money grab by the government.
@@rockwall5329 I doubt it's the majority of people in New York City. The representatives of Staten Island kept trying to push for a statewide vote in order to have it killed, because I imagine if it had been put on the ballot to only the residents of New York City, it would have passed with overwhelming support. The majority of viewers of this channel likely do not live in New York City, and are unlikely to be a big fan of urban environments (which is fine, just means that they'll never enjoy New York City unless it's bulldozed and turned suburbs, and there are plenty of other places in the US they can enjoy suburban or rural life), if they do.
The video creator only showed 2 individuals complaining, and seemed to cut off one before he started going deep into his views, and relied on Fox news to indicate backlash, when Manhattan is a strong democratic base with a very small minority who actually watch Fox news there. He also relied on a claim that one business owner needs 5 trucks coming in a day for deliveries (which frankly seems excessive) to reach a $50,000 added yearly expenses (which is a bit of an overestimate as 23x365x5 = $41,975 not $50,000). However not only does that ignore that vehicles going in and out are only going to be charged once per day meaning that unless said business owner is insistent on having 5 different trucks deliver at the exact same time, they should be able to get away with only spending an extra $8,395 per day. That strongly implies to me that he's not a big fan of the policy and is trying to make it look worse than it actually is to drum up opposition, and is probably using various tricks to misrepresent opposition to the policy as well. Such as interviewing dozens of people on the streets and then only selecting the two that opposed the policy in the video.
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.
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 problem's not traffic, it's over population.
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.
im forced to drive into the "congestion zone" multiple times a week to bring my heavily disabled father to his oncologist. This is just not going to be viable for me at like $300-500. Anyone that has had cancer can tell you it is so difficult to find a good doctor that cares and giving up that doctor once you found them is a terrible idea. Oh and before anyone asks, transportation programs have gotten far harder to get and the process is essentially filled with new roadblocks making it incredibly difficult to obtain.
This is just gonna hurt the middle and lower class people of New York.
The money is without a doubt going to be wasted by the heavily corrupt and incompetent MTA.
Also the real issue are the ubers, lyfts and revels in manhattan.
Half if not more of the cars i see in manhattan have TLC plates
No one is forcing your family to live in a cesspit. No one is forcing you to use a doctor in the city.
@@Justnothankyou132 i think i pretty clearly explained that finding a good oncologist is hard. I also think you don't understand how much harm an oncologist that doesn't care can do.
But please keep being a corrupt government apologist
@@MobiusGT You're just being entitled. It's fine 😊
@@Justnothankyou132 yes me wishing my end stage cancer father gets proper healthcare is entitlement.
get off your god damn high horse
@@MobiusGT You feel like you should be able to only go to NYC for healthcare while simultaneously complaining about traffic and charging money while also BEING the traffic. You feel like you deserve the opportunity to use the best doctors in the most congested city in the country without being charged anything. Definition of entitled.
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.
The subways are just as congested too and the price for taking the train went up. This is just another money grab
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
Based. We need to do this everywhere.
Politicians aren't interested in fixing problems, only in making money off problems while pretending to fix them.
What is your education background? Do you know what you're talking about here or are you just yapping?
@@NationalistsRuinAmericayou don’t need a degree to figure this one out, just look at the subscription model itself, why can’t i just buy the product outright if i have the money to?
@@NationalistsRuinAmerica Your blind as hell if you can't look into the past to see every other time it has happened.
@@NationalistsRuinAmericaHe’s just yapping.
@@NationalistsRuinAmerica do you even pay attention to what goes on the this world? he is correct. Why are congressmen exempt from insider trading laws? Get a clue.
imagine your tax dollars paying for road construction and then you have to pay to drive on the roads you paid for.
When Cash delves into a topic he covers pros😊 and cons and explores ALL aspects of the issue.
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.
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
Perfect transportation for NYC is a scooter. Takes up way less space, gets 100+ mpg, cheaper than a car, can park it about anywhere & there's really only one problem. As soon as you park it someone will steal it.
$690 dollars a month, to use the roads. That is more than mosts car payment and insurance together.
Good luck NY 😂😂
Really? What car is that?
$690 To use roads that you're already taxed for.. Wages aren't keeping up with these fees and taxes.
So what is your solution in traffc in new york? If everyone using car? Or maybe you all want car but dont complain everyday traffc.
Not very clever are you? even if they bring in the charge at $23 there are not 30 weekdays in a month to make it cost $690, there is 20 to 23 weekdays in a month meaning there is no month ever you would need to pay over $529 although even the $529 would be far too much also.
@@PimpDaddyStyles so you won't drive on weekends.
Got it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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)
From the west coast to the Golden triangle in Texas, "revenue" schemes like this only hurt the poor...in my personal experience
Now the rich can drive around mid town without being bothered by the riff raff.
NYC is killing the midclass.
I can't imagine the challenge that average people may experience saving any money at all living in NY 😢😢😢
that's why so many don't live in NY, just commute there. now that gap is narrowing.
It's expensive but there are ways to save.
Manhattan is unaffordable, other boroughs are not so bad. You'll definitely save a lot of money taking public transit versus owning and driving a car, and those who really need to drive will save a lot of time once those who do not need to drive are no longer causing excessive vehicle traffic.
If it were cheap, everyone would live there.
Living in NYC is a rat race. I tell everyone...get out as soon as you can. I lived in 3 boros over 30 years and they all sucked one way or another. I finally moved to Westchester to get more for my money and have a nicer place to raise my kids. Things like safety, better schools, and a parking space that's not 7 blocks from your house make a difference. News alert, it will not get better.
Congestion pricing only works if people have good transportation into the city.
there's PLENTY OF GOOD transportation into Manhattan. this isn't Kansas, you do NOT need a car in downtown Manhattan unless you have business there. If you don't know this, it means you are not from NYC, so stuff it.
Metro-North, LIRR, NJ Transit, Amtrak, NYC subway, the ferries, are some good options
@@jaynycha1705 The subway is NOT a good option. It’s filthy, it’s unsafe, it’s unreliable, and most stations are not accessible for people with mobility issues.
@@jaynycha1705people just enjoy those rat covered trains huh or the homeless sleeping and pissing in them :)
You can't walk or ride a bike into Manhattan from Jersey.
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.
The dirty little secret is that the city intentionally creates the gridlock. For the last few years, they made the roads SMALLER by removing lanes. Even on streets where they didn't create bike or bus lanes, they still removed lanes.
I moved from nyc a few years ago. Every so often I get homesick and think about moving back. Then I hear about dumb A ideas like this and it reaffirms that my decision to leave was a good one
Cash your reporting is tops I look forward to your videos I learn so much!
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
Watching from London UK we're already there and then some....just wait until they extend your zone, they will 🫡🫣
This exactly why I left NYC last year. Now im about to buy a house for my family. With 4 bed rooms and 2 bathrooms for $200K
In Germany you can simply walk into any train but your ticket will be checked on the train and you can land in prison if you get caught often enough
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.
A problem created by greed and solving it by more greed.
a problem created by american naive dumbness
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.
The London council introduced the congestion charge about 10yrs ago, it didn't do a thing to change the volume of traffic, it's just a way of funding the local authority.
We have seen a reduction in traffic. If it was a result of the charge is hard to know foe sure, but a minor change in the daily traffic flow seem to indicate the fee did have an impact.
@@SweBeach2023 Did you not see an increase in the perimeter areas as a result of the charge?
The problem isnt City Revenue the problem is revenue mismanagement.
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.
I think you’ve found your calling. I’ve been enjoying your climate related posts. You’re an unbiased news broadcaster.
I love that you do these features along with the real estate videos. Very informative and well done.
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.