Gov. Kathy Hochul considers her congestion-pricing scheme a huge success, but the city Health Department just exposed the scam by blowing up one of the main supposed benefits. “Measured pollution levels were not significantly different because of congestion pricing,” it reported Friday. Worse, the activists at South Bronx Unite have published preliminary data suggesting that … Read more
Start counting down the clock on those “congestion” tolls: Team Trump has a clear path to ending them once the new president has his players in place. The Biden crew opted to ignore the MTA’s failure to file a full environmental-impact statement on the “congestion pricing plan,” accepting instead a less-sweeping “assessment.” As Nicole Gelinas … Read more
If you can’t stand the heat this summer, don’t go looking for a New York politician to offer refuge. Preparing for a sweltering weekend, Mayor Adams’ office last week appealed to hundreds of local electeds, asking them to open their offices as small “cooling centers” to give New Yorkers an air-conditioned space to shelter from … Read more
In a new high for absurdity in city Democratic politics, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards indirectly accused City Councilman Robert Holden, a fellow Democrat, of racism for . . . attacking congestion pricing. Yes, that’s right: Being against the MTA plan that will hurt the city’s (far more diverse) outer-borough residents and, per the MTA’s … Read more