Hochul’s congestion-pricing fails reveal
incompetence — or a long con
Posted By: FlyRight, 11/18/2024 10:29:22 AM
If congestion pricing, now less than two months away from its new January start date, ever dies for good, it will have been tortured to death — by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul’s botch of the toll to drive into core Manhattan is so epic, you must wonder: Is she this bad at politics, or is she doing it on purpose? Last Thursday, five months after her June “pause” on congestion pricing weeks before it was set to start, She now wants to start collecting cash from drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street on Jan. 5. She’s made superficially good changes:
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