They might need to commute in, but they don’t have to drive in. The vast majority of people going to Manhattan doesn’t drive, they take the subway, buses, trains and bikes. Only 20% of the people traveling through the congestion zone is in a vehicle and only 2% of the poor drove in.
Workers that needed to drive in wasted a lot of their valuable hours stuck in gridlock traffic, burning their own costly gasoline and being prevented from reaching their job site, costing them more than congestion pricing
This is another misconception addressed in the Climate Town video on this subject, with more details if you are interested:
New York Declares War On Traffic (A Congestion Pricing Story)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DEFBn0r53uQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFBn0r53uQ
They might need to commute in, but they don’t have to drive in. The vast majority of people going to Manhattan doesn’t drive, they take the subway, buses, trains and bikes. Only 20% of the people traveling through the congestion zone is in a vehicle and only 2% of the poor drove in.
Workers that needed to drive in wasted a lot of their valuable hours stuck in gridlock traffic, burning their own costly gasoline and being prevented from reaching their job site, costing them more than congestion pricing
I gotta watch that, thanks!
That’s why I said “often” and “some cities”. It’s not universal. I support congestion pricing.