TeamMisha t1_j9w881j wrote on February 25, 2023 at 12:21 AM

Reply to comment by HEIMDVLLR in MTA Pushes Congestion Pricing Back to Second Quarter of 2024 by perspicatic

> streets are empty

In the environmental assessment, they modeled traffic with a goal in 5% reduction in VMT and 10% reduction of vehicles entering the CBD toll zone. The goal is not, nor has it ever been, to evaporate traffic from the CBD, that would be impossible and nonsensical.

Source from the Regional Plan Association commenting on the EA: https://rpa.org/latest/testimony/congestion-pricing-mta-environmental-assessment See, first comment.

HEIMDVLLR t1_j9wjabc wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:45 AM

Data looks cool, but I would like to SEE how things actually look in places like London. Especially after they implement their next wave of congestion tolls for ULEZones.

TeamMisha t1_j9wk4md wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:52 AM

You can already see how their first implementation went, no? It's been in place since 2003. You can look back further as well, Singapore had a road pricing system circa 1998. Our system would be comparable to London's original implementation. Obviously the streets did not empty. I am not sure what else you would want to see or if you believe our implementation is somehow going to be vastly different?