Those who've been advocating and fighting for congestion pricing continue to make the point that far more than mass transit riders would benefit from $15-billion in improvements.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 9:14PMThose who've been advocating and fighting for congestion pricing continue to make the point that 85 percent of commuters who come into Manhattan get here on mass transit, and that far more people would benefit from $15-billion in improvements that they say are now in danger.
"Do you like the Second Avenue subway?," Carlo Scissura, president of NY Building Congress, asked a crowd of supporters who shouted YES! "There will not be a phase two and 'fugetabout', as we say in Brooklyn, a phase three," he then said. "She's capitulating to fear, to cynicism, to politics. Last time we did this in election year, 1999, New York City lost the commuter tax. We lost $19 billion that we can never get back. What are subway riders never going to get back when the system is not invested in?" Rachel Fauss of Reinvent Albany said.
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