I live around this mess and I have mixed feelings about congestion pricing. I am for a congestion pricing scheme but the revenue should be shared among all transit agencies that travel in and out of NYC. Who the hell wants to travel into the city when PATH trains only come every 15-20 off peak and weekend hours? Why not beef up transit routes FIRST, and then implement the pricing?

The concept is a good idea. The execution is short sided and insular and I don’t see the MTA benefiting from any of this for at least a decade. That’s IF this money actually goes towards public transportation infrastructure.

I see this going the way of the mandatory 911 fee we all pay and then having almost none of that money going towards 911 service.

you really wanna go crazy, make it electric only. that will cut some traffic back ;)

You couldn't pay me to go to New York

My impression is that the folks supporting this (and other measures that make driving harder) are vocal but a minority, and the majority would be opposed except that it simply didn't take these issues into account while voting. (I know I didn't believe they'd actually manage to do this.) That's just based on talking to the people I know, not on any survey. I guess we'll see if actually having to pay the tolls pisses off enough people to change who gets elected next time...