Congestion Taxing: A Bad Idea at Any Price

Governor Hochul reportedly plans to bring back after the election the congestion pricing (taxing) dodge she dasn’t adopt before the voters go to the polls.

AP/Mary Altaffer
Traffic crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan from Brooklyn. AP/Mary Altaffer

Only the most credulous will be surprised by the report that Governor Hochul is contemplating bringing back, after the election, the congestion pricing scheme that would toll drivers for the privilege of entering lower Manhattan. It’s barely a silver lining in this cloud that Mrs. Hochul, the New York Post reports, aims to sock drivers for less than the $15 a car that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had hoped to extort.

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