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    The Cars Always Win

    New York’s stalled congestion-pricing plan was a rare chance to try something different in American transportation.
    by Sarah Laskow Jun 05, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: John Taggart / Bloomberg / Getty

    Driving into New York City is a special kind of skill, requiring patience, cutthroat merging, and, sometimes, a willingness to navigate the backstreets of New Jersey. Driving in New York City, and especially in Manhattan, is also a skill, requiring the same patience and cutthroat merging, along with a willingness to pay upwards of $50 a day to park. People do it every day, but of all the places in the United States, Manhattan is perhaps the most hostile to driving. Given that New York City has the most extensive public-transportation system in the country, Manhattan is also the place where driving is the least necessary.

    Five years ago, then–New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature approved a system that would. (It also would have reduced waiting times for the drivers who did come.)

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