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“NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days” by Zvi

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People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. What happened so far?

Table of Contents

  1. Congestion Pricing Comes to NYC.
  2. How Much Is Traffic Improving?.
  3. And That's Terrible?.
  4. You Mad, Bro.
  5. All Aboard.
  6. Time is Money.
  7. Solving For the Equilibrium.
  8. Enforcement and License Plates.
  9. Uber Eats the Traffic.
  10. We Can Do Even Better Via Congestion Tolls.
  11. Abundance Agenda Fever Dream.
  12. The Lighter Side.

    13. 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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