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Hey, Gov. Hochul, Here’s How Congestion Pricing Would Have Remade Manhattan

Just in time for Sunday night’s failed launch of congestion pricing, Streetfilms’s Clarence Eckerson has returned from Stockholm with a new video that shows how great a city can be when 20 percent of the cars are removed.

See it for yourself:

  • Public space repurposed for people, not cars.
  • Business-friendly shopping strips filled with strolling pedestrians instead rushing drivers.
  • Calm and relaxed residential streets where kids can even play (remember that?!).
  • Public transit that isn’t stuck in private traffic all the time.

Meanwhile, the film features a bike ride with Lars Strömgren, also known as the Ydanis Rodriguez of Stockholm, and a rare Streetfilms guest spot by yours truly:

Watching the film makes a mockery of Gov. Hochul’s claim that she undid congestion pricing on behalf of “working” New Yorkers. Every “working” resident of Stockholm has benefitted from that city’s decision a generation ago to charge a small fee to drive into the most congested part of town — with the money going towards urban improvements.

It’s something Streetsblog also chronicled during a fact- (and fish-) finding mission to Sweden earlier this year:



source https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/24/hey-gov-hochul-heres-how-congestion-pricing-would-have-remade-manhattan
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