New York City Congestion Pricing Essay

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New Yorkers who must drive to work already endure horrendous traffic congestion conditions and exorbitant parking fees because legal on-street parking spots are extremely scarce, particularly in the midtown area and the financial district.

Similarly, commercial businesses that use delivery vehicles have no option but to drive into the city every day and the congestion pricing plan would not have exempted them.

In many cases, implementation of the plan could conceivably have threatened their continued commercial viability to continue in business.

Critics also pointed out that the plan would not necessarily have achieved the carbon emission reductions initially claimed by it proponents, and that the other main justification, reducing congestion within the fee zone in Manhattan, was equally spurious. More recent studies demonstrated that most of the reduction in traffic and congestion would have occurred in the suburbs along the main routes traveled by commuters from North of Manhattan in Westchester and Long Island and Queens from the East rather than within midtown Manhattan (Berger 2008).

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The proposed congestion pricing plan would not have achieved its stated objectives sufficiently to justify its cost to commuters. More importantly, it would have fallen unfairly on the shoulders of those least able to absorb the additional expense and on those with no choice to comply with the public transportation option it was intended to encourage by making the choice to drive even less desirable than it already is for those who must endure the miserable daily commute and high parking fees just to get to work. REFERENCES

Diaz, Ruben, Jr. Congestion pricing plan was a regressive tax on Bronxites; New York Daily News, April 29, 2008. Retrieved May 1, 2008 from the NYDailyNews.com website, at http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_congestion_pricing_plan_was_a_regressive.html

Berger, Joseph. Congestion Pricing: Just Another Regressive Tax? The New York Times, April 20, 2008. Retrieved May 1, 2008 from the NYTimesOnline website, at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/20colwe.html?ref=nyregionspecial2.....

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