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Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social |
If they lower the fee to 5 or 8 bucks or something, it won’t reduce congestion and that will doom it to failure not just here but everywhere. People will point to New York and say, “It didn’t even work there!”
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wilp
@wilp.bsky.social
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Been trying to think of the least painful way to get the program to go and the idiot governor to save face is NY income tax credit on up to $xx of MTA EZ Pass charges. MTA will still get all of their money and Kathy can tide over mythical voters with an IOU instead of the inverse.
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braak
@braak.bsky.social
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"the problem with this congestion pricing scheme is that it's going to discourage people from driving into the city" like okay, great
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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
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On top of that, if they lower the toll they are 100% going to make up for the lost revenue with some sort of tax that only applies to New Yorkers, meaning we’ll see another massive wealth transfer from the city to the suburbs.
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Chet Sandberg
@chetsandberg.bsky.social
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Hey, this has been the approach to the minimum wage — barely enough to say they did something.
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Ersatz Haderach
@striderhlc.bsky.social
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Standard Dem operating procedure for soft-killing stuff they campaigned on but don’t actually want to implement; load it down until it doesn’t actually help anyone, then claim it’s a failure so nobody should ever try it again.
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Pete Casellini
@petecasellini.bsky.social
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Counterpoint: People circle blocks for free parking to avoid paying anything, even 25¢ an hour, at a meter or garage.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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My understanding is that they can't lower it below $9, legally. I don't want it to be $9, but if that's a absolute floor, that leaves a fair amount of room for a face-saving reduction to something like $12 without too much of a negative impact on the realized benefits
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