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MillennialNightmare t1_iuyl5pc wrote

There’s no shot that Zeldin supports congestion pricing and we know how republicans feel general about New York City and public services. It would be an extremely rough four years.

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TeamMisha t1_iuytqek wrote

Unless I understand wrong, the law is already passed, the MTA does not need the future governor's approval as congestion pricing is already authorized. He would need to submit legislation that undoes the previous law, but I don't see a good reason the senate would support such a move.

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MillennialNightmare t1_iuyyhlw wrote

Most of the members of the senate are from outside of Manhattan. It doesn’t take much to scaremonger enough for people to turn against a policy that makes sense, which is why we’re even having a conversation about Zeldin potentially winning in the first place.

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TeamMisha t1_iuzhatf wrote

He also screamed that he would bypass the will of the legislature with emergency measures over bail reform lol, and they shot back, they seem pissed already and the majority party will probably balk at working with this lunatic

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King-of-New-York OP t1_iv0eu1c wrote

20% of congestion pricing toll revenue will go to the LIRR and MNR. Zeldins right wing suburban base. The other 80% will go to the endless money pit known as “capital projects.”

I wrote about it here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/xzam39/20_of_congestion_pricing_tolls_to_be_legislated/

And here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/xxcbub/20_of_congestion_pricing_tolls_to_be_legislated/

MTA Capital Projects.

https://new.mta.info/capital/2020CapitalProgram

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