Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free

Thank you to @NYGovCuomo for his leadership and the thousands of essential workers driving to their jobs to keep NY running. Please remember to stay safe, stay healthy, and look out for your fellow neighbor during the #coronavirus crisis.

DeBlasio and his administration can’t even handle the abuse of parking placards by cops, judges, and elected officials. #congestionpricing will just be another mismanaged and abused project for @NYCMayor and his cronies.

@RegionalPlan @CitiBikeNYC This plan is ignorant to the city's "new normal". Small businesses, who employ hundreds of thousands of essential workers, are folding everywhere. Instead of making it easier for these workers to get back to work, we're now going to tax them for doing so? Insane.

We modeled transportation scenarios for NYC's return to work. For best results: ➡️Implement congestion pricing ASAP ➡️Reform placard use ➡️Consider HOV policies ➡️Expand # of dedicated BRT & bus lanes ➡️Expand @CitiBikeNYC & bike lane network rpa.org/latest/lab/tra…

.@FeinbergSarah, the interim president of the TA, stated that “There are people who do not work [for the MTA] who we are paying”. Seems like they have money to spare, so why are we being forced to bailout this money pit with plans like #congestionpricing?

The #MTA during a pandemic is still unsafe. As essential workers drive into the city, congestion pricing will only be harming those fighting for New York to recover.

Congestion pricing disproportionately affects the lower and middle class, so as traffic picks up again in the city as people return to work, why should the working class be the ones doing all the heavy lifting?

Congestion Pricing won’t lower CO2 emissions in NYC, it will only force the hard working middle class to pay for it.

@Andres4NY @NYCSpeakerCoJo Surely you can't be advocating that a packed subway or bus is the safest way to prevent the spread of COVID-19...

@NYCSpeakerCoJo Insane. Just as NYC enters phase 4 and people begin to use cars as the safest mode of transportation, you're going to tax drivers (many of them low-income or essential workers) who are responsible for getting NY back on its feet. How out of touch can you be?

@Bobby4Brooklyn Plans like this, especially #congestionpricing, will hurt NY's middle and lower-income workers. We can't let wealther NYers get away with using our city while lower-income people bear the burden.

NYC can’t recover w/out our subways. W/ record deficits there are 3 things we can do to save our mass transit: 1️⃣ $3.9B in additional fed stimulus 2️⃣ fed approval to implement congestion pricing. 3️⃣ pass my $3 fee on all non essential online deliveries. nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyr…

@MarkLevineNYC Just as New Yorkers, especially low-income workers, enter phase 4 and try to dig out from coronavirus using the safest means of travel available to them - cars - you're going to kneecap them with the #congestionpricing tax. Insane.

Subway ridership is still only 22% of the pre-pandemic level. Midtown traffic is already back to 85%. This trend is a serious threat to the life of our city. We need action now: congestion pricing, more bus & bike lanes, more fed $ for transit etc. politico.com/states/new-yor…

@DrETtibmed @BrianLehrer @kimmelman Not to mention completely ignoring the low-income and essential workers struggling to dig out of COVID. Insane.

@BrianLehrer @kimmelman Gentrification + underfunded MTA + high MTA fares + poor MTA service + no infrastructure to replace a century of developing NYC for cars + regressive congestion pricing tax + COVID + Corey Johnson = GREENWASHING and hurting millions of average NYers who depend on cars.

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@red_boxer0 @TweetBenMax @MarketUrbanism @FeinbergSarah @ClaytonGuse @MTA Absolutely insane. And people want to hand them more of our money through schemes like the congestion tax, unbelievable.

This @FeinbergSarah interview with @ClaytonGuse re the @MTA is pretty wild. “There are people who do not work here who we are paying. It’s crazy...I absolutely believe there are a lot of people wandering around and no one knows who they report to.” nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mt…

A violent vandal kicks out windows on two subway car doors in Brooklyn, as the MTA sees a spree of broken glass on trains in an unsettling trend. nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-su…

@jameshupp This is an incredibly narrow-minded argument. So many of NY's low-income and essential workers rely on cars to commute to their jobs downtown. As if gentrification weren't enough to push them out of the city, now we're going to tax them for coming to their jobs?

@NYDailyNews We don't need TLC to share this data, many New Yorkers already know #congestionpricing will be a disaster.

EDITORIAL | We hear that TLC has even stopped sharing data with the city Department of Transportation, which uses it to evaluate Manhattan traffic, critical for congestion pricing. Why have the statistics have gone missing? trib.al/GRS9uou

@aarmlovi Very interested to see how these papers turn out..

Fortunately, I still have 3 unpublished papers w/op-eds on ice, ranging from NYCHA rescue to congestion pricing to ferry pricing. Plus a 2021 flight plan on value capture TOD upzoning in NYC & Boston, parking auctions, income & sales tax reform, & "zoning for recovery" in NYC.

For the first time since 2013, I am unaffiliated with Manhattan Institute. I really enjoyed my unusual niche as a pro-transit, YIMBY, market-oriented 🌐🔰 inside a conservative think tank. Niches are fragile in these times. (It's not just me--we lost many long-time MI folks)

@JMartinezNYC .@MTA looks great in this selfie

This is a bus stop.

@BobRarron @PhilipPapaelias @aaronAcarr This is all assuming we can trust the MTA to handle the funds appropriately. Congestion pricing will hurt those outer-borough and suburban commuters (many of them essential workers, btw) either way. Needs to be more accountability before we levy another tax post-COVID.

We don't need another tax, and we certainly don't need more companies with unfettered access to our personal data. on.wsj.com/3g84zDK @WSJ @pdberger

@MTA is considering using surveillance to track and test passengers for COVID-19, but with no assurances on how your personal data will be collected, shared or even sold? Same goes for the tracking system it wants to implement for congestion pricing.