First evaluation of New York's congestion pricing: It worked really, really well \ stacker news ~charts_and

Trip speed in the zone:

The more detailed view on entereing/leaving/within/outside the zone:

Reminder on New Yorks Congestion priced zone:

source: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33584

short faq on the most frequent points:

Government central planning!!!11

Maybe. But then so are all other free roads payed for by taxpayers

Isn't this targeting poor people?

In other citys this might be worth discussing. In NY it's pretty clear most people just take the subway and owning a car is a luxury.

This will destroy local businesses

Foot traffic went up. Broadway ticket sales are up.

Trip speed? How is this a good indicator?

Well, considering how much traffic jams there were before, we consider it a win. Honking complaints are also down.

Doesn't the congestion priced zone effect the "outside CBD? Is that still a good control?

Fair point.

27 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 19 Mar

This might be the biggest reason we couldn't implement this in LA. Here, driving in from the suburbs into the city is not really a luxury since the public transit is so non existent.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

Yeah, it would probably have to be phased in pretty slowly to give everything else time to adapt and develop. I bet it could work, though.