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“NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days” by Zvi
People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. What happened so far?
Table of Contents
Congestion Pricing Comes to NYC
We’ve now had over a week of congestion pricing in New York City.
It took a while to finally get it.
The market for whether congestion pricing would happen in 2024 got as high as 87% before Governor Hochul first betrayed us. Fortunately for us, she partially caved. We finally got congestion pricing at the start of 2025.
In the end, we got [...]
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Outline:
(00:13) Congestion Pricing Comes to NYC
(02:35) How Much Is Traffic Improving?
(11:24) And That's Terrible?
(14:00) You Mad, Bro
(15:21) All Aboard
(19:02) Time is Money
(20:58) Solving For the Equilibrium
(23:19) Enforcement and License Plates
(25:13) Uber Eats the Traffic
(27:20) We Can Do Even Better Via Congestion Tolls
(29:32) Abundance Agenda Fever Dream
(31:18) The Lighter Side
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First published:
January 14th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GN8SrMxw3WEAtfrFS/nyc-congestion-pricing-early-days
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People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. What happened so far?
Table of Contents
Congestion Pricing Comes to NYC
We’ve now had over a week of congestion pricing in New York City.
It took a while to finally get it.
The market for whether congestion pricing would happen in 2024 got as high as 87% before Governor Hochul first betrayed us. Fortunately for us, she partially caved. We finally got congestion pricing at the start of 2025.
In the end, we got [...]
---
Outline:
(00:13) Congestion Pricing Comes to NYC
(02:35) How Much Is Traffic Improving?
(11:24) And That's Terrible?
(14:00) You Mad, Bro
(15:21) All Aboard
(19:02) Time is Money
(20:58) Solving For the Equilibrium
(23:19) Enforcement and License Plates
(25:13) Uber Eats the Traffic
(27:20) We Can Do Even Better Via Congestion Tolls
(29:32) Abundance Agenda Fever Dream
(31:18) The Lighter Side
---
First published:
January 14th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GN8SrMxw3WEAtfrFS/nyc-congestion-pricing-early-days
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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