alt Hacker NewsThe increased speeds are excellent for those who can afford the toll. This is a universal benefit of toll roads for those people.
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Yes, this is absolutely more than vindication. If you pay a toll and then become stuck in traffic on that toll road, you are a victim of highway robbery. The fact that NYC traffic is flowing fulfills our simple toll contract and makes everyone whole.
> increased speeds are excellent for those who can afford the toll
And anyone who takes a taxi. Or needs an ambulance. Or orders anything delivered during the day.
Also excellent for those public transport riders who can't afford car ownership.
The best decision would be to completely forbid individual transport. Now the common space dedicated to streets is for who can pay extra. Forbid individual transport and create some parks and pedestrian streets.
It’s also excellent for people that take buses.
Source: me
They also benefit any and all road-based public transit that crosses the zone.
>The increased speeds are excellent for those who can afford the toll. This is a universal benefit of toll roads for those people.
Anecdotally that seems to be the case. The largest burden of this tax is falling on low income commuters who live off the train lines and have to drive into Manhattan, yet all of the money is going to... the train lines (MTA). Understandably they're not too happy.
wealthy people do not need to travel as much as pleb....
And the investments in public transit and bike paths are excellent for those who can't. Such unalloyed win-wins are hard to find.