Anyone who lives or commutes to New York knows this is pure BS. Rush hour by subway is a PAIN. It’s ALWAYS full from front to back and you have to push people to get in. It’s not as bad as Japan or India but it’s still pretty full. However, it is also livable. Now, add MORE people to a failed system that for over 30…

So much is wrong with this. 58% of the working poor take mass transit? Nice- let’s just tax the shit out of the 42% that don’t. If they get fired the remaining 58 will just do that work for them. Fuck no they don’t get a pay raise for doing so, you think this is socialism or some shit? What the fuck is an AOC?Also…

Already have this - it’s called a gas tax.

Hurray for regressive taxes on working class people!

Because that worked So Well in France..... it’s not like there were any protests or anything like that...

Oh, wait...

The only thing that would make this better would be the outright banning of Uber and Lyft.  These services are fucking up traffic more than any other contributor.  

You are just another useful idiot trying to justify stupidity! Anyone who thinks fleecing overtaxed NewYorkers extra, so they can fork over the money to MTA to waste is retarded. I think paying highest tax in the nation should be enough to cover expenses. It’s like getting a second job, so you can afford to pay for…

This will do little to offset the congestion and the money will not go to public transportation as promised, as is typical with these pie in the sky promises. Fix the transportation and the implement congestion, otherwise your just cutting the legs from underneath the middle class. Sure $60k sounds like alot to some…

It also means fewer people could choose to leave New York, and in fact, more people could move here if the city becomes more livable.

It’s a money grab with no positive result.

How come that every solution for any problem from a government entity starts off with “charge peope more money”?

An article filed to “BAN CARS”, that begins as:

Congestion pricing is not going to fix congestion. The rich (the few that live outside of manhattan) will continue to drive. That’s what rich people do. The poor are exempt. The commercial will need to drive anyway. So, congestion will exist no matter what. It’s just tax in this case. Unless! Can we tax based on the…

Ive never been to New York but why is the government just fucking you with taxes just to get around a win for anyone?  I'm so sick of the government finding a zillion ways to tax you for every little thing and when that's not enough they just make up a new tax.  

LOL.  its nothing more than a tax grab.  

Its so cute you think a cent of this new tax will actually go into funding infrastructure.

Another Tax in New York. And who makes less than 60k a year living on that island? The intern at Goldman? Happy I left for much greener(and red) pastures in Texas 7 years ago. Never again.

This is about generating income, not being green or reducing congestion.

Won’t hurt the “poor” people eh?

I love it when articles that start with “The next best thing to banning cars,” are cross posted on Jalopnik, the car enthusiast site....

Rich people win... again. They don’t care about $10, AND they get less traffic... You want less congestion and more money, ticket all double parked a*holes and those that block the box. There, solved the problem for you!