Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) believes that taxation could decrease traffic congestion in New York. Vehicles will be charged an additional $15 daily to enter Manhattan from 60th Street or below, while trucks will face a fine between $24 and $36. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul strongly backs the measure as she believes it will help to clean up New York.
“Congestion pricing means cleaner air, better transit and less gridlock on New York City’s streets and today’s vote by the MTA Board is a critical step forward,” Hochul commented. As a reminder, New York City just voted to slash funding for sanitation. It is not an exaggeration to say that the city is overrun with rats. The police budget is declining by $5.6 billion as well at a time when crime is through the roof and the city’s infrastructure is crumbling as busloads of illegals arrive daily.
Do they want to utterly kill the leisure and hospitality industry? As a previous resident of New Jersey, I saw the tolls into New York rise over the years. It now costs a good $20 in tolls simply to cross into the state, and parking fees in the city are some of the highest in the nation. Now you have to factor in an added daily congestion fee and it will cost the average person a good amount simply to enter Manhattan.
Obviously they want people to rely on public transportation as the coming 15-minute cities will not require personal vehicles. Taxis will charge passengers an extra $1.25 to meet the toll while Uber and Lyft plan to implement a $2.50 fee. People earning under $50,000 annually can apply for a discounted rate only after their first 10 trips per month.
They’re banning coal and wood ovens so there will soon be no reason to stop in the city for a slice of pizza or world famous cuisine. Former grand hotels are now migrant camps and thousands of undocumented military aged men are scattering the streets. Crime is rising and Soros-backed DAs won’t allow criminals to be prosecuted. The people of New York will never see the money derived from this new tax. Yet another reason why I will never return to NYC.
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I love it when Yankees fuk their selves. Gives old southerners a warm glowy feeling.
NYC just needs to elect a few more kneegrows and joos to finish the place off.
Sooner or later that insanity will spread to other cities and towns. Don’t expect so called conservatives to stop it. I watched plenty of those cucks gladly shut down their towns and fine business owners over a hoax virus.
I have no love for the metropolis no matter above or below the Mason-Dixon, they always fail if you study history. One place you would never want to be is NYC when TSHTF, seriously.
Ever since Lincoln’s war against the rule of law, Dixie has been gagging on Washington, D.C.’s and MIC’s dick.
Or Atlanta….
;0)
True, but I also wouldn’t want to be in Richmond. A city is a city, as you pointed out.
I will do my part by never visiting NYC or spending one penny in NYC,am sure many others feel the same these days and feel as sentiment grows there will be little to no congestion/crowding ect.
The charges are laid. The fuses have all been installed in the detonators, where is my book of matches.
You need to fortify 287 if you want to take care of the city and not just Manhattan.
An armpit of the uncivilized world.
An (unwashed) armpit of the uncivilized world.
FIFY
This is too easy.
Charge people for excessive travel by monitoring the phone location pings. Travel more than 15 miles in a day? Taxed.
Travel more than thirty? Taxed more.
Travel over 40? Onky the uber wealthy xan accird that tax.
Gee, the wonders of digital currency.
Keep the cell or tablet in a Faraday pouch and don’t use it, except for emergency.
The debit card will tattle the moment you try to make a purchase 16 miles from your address.
Admin. Here is a good short video.
Armenia has been continuously Christian longer than any other country. Its language has also remained barely altered from the Proto-Indo-European language group, over approximately seven thousand years. It cannot be allowed to be ruined by violent, amoral, ambitious barbarians, like the Library at Alexandria, which humanity will never recover and know.
It can.
Congestion pricing is on top of the toll you pay at the bridges or tunnels.
https://panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/en/tolls.html
And you still have to pay for parking, pay “service” fees in restaurants on top of tips and deal with potentially being a victim of crime while you’re there because it’s now legal to mug/loot/carjack.
HARD PASS
I fooled them Grandma, I always enter Manhattan by getting off the Major Deegan and crossing the East River in Harlem.
Well, at least I used to. It’s not like I’ve gone anywhere near the damned place for 15 years or so.
The only thing that will clean up NYC is a hydrogen bomb.
A mass culling via disinformation might serve.
Your gaping sphincter belongs in NYC. I am sure someone there can fill it for you.
This sounds look a great idea.
Im always good with whatever makes a democrat suffer and miserable.
What zap said.
At least they have a protein source so they will not starve.
https://ko-fi.com/Post/Its-A-Wonderful-Life-C0C7RYVFS
Cum?
“trucks will face a fine between $24 and $36”
Simple fix, just stop delivering there.
The new methods will certainly “clean” the city. Clean it of paying jobs, businesses, and industry.
The new filth will be 100 times worse than it is right now but the good news is, it will be easy to create the New York City Prison for all the garbage that will be living there.
This is all about wreckage, then build back better (in Davos’s view) for Agenda 21/2030/2060.
Pay to go into Manhattan? They couldn’t pay me TO go into Manhattan.
The serfs used to be tied to the land.
They had to seek permission to travel beyond the estate.
I think New Yorkers should get what they have voted for.
Starts with tolls, then come permission slips to enter/exit, then they just don’t allow anyone to leave creating the 15-minute prison.
Serfs were bought and sold with the land.
You can see the curvature of the Earth in that photo.
Eh…..,just the angle and you are seeing the rim of a flat plate,just saying!
Fish eye.
You can see the curvature of the universe in a photo of a flatiron if it was shot with a fisheye lens.
Noo Yawkaz continually vote for these Communist Democrats; Noo Yawkaz apparently like they way they govern, the policies and performance; let Noo Yawkaz choke on it.
Auntie recommends New York State re-implement the vaxxine passort for CoVid-19; just the tonic for terminally totalitarian toadies.
First, they want to take your cars away and force you into crowded cities and then they want to fine you for the congestion.
How funny! You mean people actually pay money to enter that shithole? Well, I guess that’s no different from going to prison for the amenities. They know what’s best for themselves—any little breath of freedom would kill ‘em dead.
Mr Armstrong notes that it now costs a good $20 to enter NY State. I think he meant NYC from NJ. I understand that this various if one pays cash or uses the electronic thingamagij, oh wait, hmm ??? can you still pay cash..?????..It’s been several years since I entered the City from Jersey.
Anyway, for some perspective on toll charges: back when I was a kid in the 50s, if I remember rightly, the toll was a quarter each way through the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and the GWBridge (now you are only charged entering not exiting the City) for a round trip of 50 cents. According to the on-line inflation calculator I use, 50 cents in 1955 now (2023) translates into $5.74.