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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-04-22 17:30:54

🤦 #CongestionPricing
gothamist.com/news/mta-struggl

@profcarroll@federate.social
2024-06-09 13:35:22

This quote is by Mayor Bloomberg’s #CongestionPricing guy. Even he says that NYC suburbs control the balance of power in Congress. I don’t make the rules. #uspol #GiftLink

“For all of the great work that’s gone into congestion pricing since then, one hard reality hasn’t budged: It’s just really unpopular among people who live in Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties and drive into the city a few times a year or more,” he said. “These are the same New York counties whose voters could decide whether the House of Representatives keeps its meager MAGA majority.”

How Governor Hochul Decided to Kill Congestion Pricing in New York
Although the governor said she long feared the program might hurt New York City’s economy, she never disclosed her reservations, leaving some feeling betrayed.

@scott@carfree.city
2024-06-12 05:07:21

"The extra little power that Hochul discovered in the obscure recesses of a federal statute nevertheless is akin to toppling a bicycle by thrusting a stick into the spokes." #congestionPricing

@bourgwick@heads.social
2024-06-09 01:10:09

can't emphasize how much dumber (& cheaper & more dangerous) the edsel looks in real life. should be banned from city streets for sheer size alone. don't give af if it's electric, people should be forced to pay #CongestionPricing for even considering driving one of these in #nyc.…

a Ford Edsel glows ominously
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-06-13 02:45:14

LOL that's a lotta cops for a protest to push forward with #CongestionPricing! threads.net/@sebthedev/post/C8
I guess they're…

Sebastian Hallum Clarke (@sebthedev) on Threads
I was out this evening protesting outside Governor Hochul’s office and marching along 42nd Street calling for New York’s congestion pricing to start as scheduled on 30 June. For faster buses. For accessible stations. For parents with strollers. For cleaner air. For less time stuck in traffic. For reliable subways. And for so much more. CongestionPricingNow

@scott@carfree.city
2024-06-09 21:04:29

Signs from the Riders Alliance rally in NYC, stolen from @…'s Bluesky with alt text added.
#CongestionPricing #FixTheSubway

Protester holds a sign consisting of a mock front page of a newspaper: Hochul to City: Drop Dead Gov. Betrays Millions of Riders (picture of Governor Kathy Hochul) (illegible small text) No Clean Air. No Subway Fix. No Plan for NYC Traffic.
Protester in a line holds a handwritten sign: "I Didn't Drive Here". It's a bright, partly cloudy day. An iron fence separates the protesters from what appears to be an adjacent one-way street with cars parked on both sides.
Protest sign in the form of a mock service notice from the New York MTA. Services Upgrades Suspended A, C: Indefinitely Suspended Lawsuits to stop congestion pricing force MTA to indefinitely suspend signal upgrades for A and C riders that would have allowed for faster, more frequent service. What riders can expect from further congestion pricing delays: - More slow, unreliable subway service. - Another decade of riding subway cars from the 1970s. - No new elevators. - A new gener…
Protester (face not visible) holds sign above head: New Yorkers are thinking "Why did Hochul betray transit riders?"
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-06-12 19:51:40

5:30pm today (6/12), outside Gov. Hochul’s New York City Office at 633 Third Avenue - rally for #CongestionPricing
#NYC #MTA

Dear Andres, Join us for a mass mobilization at 5:30 today to save congestion pricing! We're heading straight to Governor Kathy Hochul's doorstep, and we need you there with us. If Gov. Hochul wants congestion, we'll give her congestion. EVENT DETAILS Date & Time: Today, Wednesday, June 12, at 5:30 p.m. Location: Outside Gov. Hochul’s New York City Office at 633 Third Avenue Congestion pricing will deliver: Cleaner air Lower asthma rates Faster buse…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-06-08 20:19:07

*extends up a middle finger*
#CongestionPricing

From: Governor Hochul <Governor.Hochul@exec.ny.gov> To: dilinger-hochul@queued.net Subject: Thank you for your Correspondence "Thank you very much for your email." (the rest of the response form letter is cut off)
@atthenius@fediscience.org
2024-06-14 19:35:54

Today I rode #HotCar 2427 on the 1-train.
#ThanksHochul 🚗
For frying #nyc #mta subways this summer. 🥵 🔥
#CongestionPricing

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-06-07 20:50:48

In light of NY's awful governor torpedoing #CongestionPricing, a few facts worth noting:
1) Transportation is the largest share (28%) of the US's #CarbonEmissions by sector. The next biggest sector, electricity, has been shrinking for the past two decades:

"Total US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector" Pie chart showing Transportation at 28%, followed by Electric Power at 25%, then Industry at 23%, then Residential & Commercial at 13%, and finally Agriculture at 10%.
"US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector, 1990-2022" A graph ordered by most-to-least amount per sector, in million metric ton emissions over time. Transportation is on top (it's hard to tell, but either staying the same or actually growing larger since 1990). Then Electric power sector, which grows a bit between 1990 and 2000, then levels off, and finally starts shrinking to actually a size that's below 1990. Under that, Industry; it shrinks slightly from 1990 to 2022.
Table from wikipedia showing countries and their fossil fuel emissions from 1970 to 2022. China is in first place, but having 0.91 mil tons/yr back in 1970, then 2.4mil in 1990, then 6.2 in 2005, and in 2022 12.6mil. % of world, it's just under 33%. Next is the US, with 4.6mil in 1970, then 5mil in 1990, then 6.8mil in 2005, and down to 4.8mil in 2022. % of world, it's 12.6% Then India, growing from 0.213mil in 1970 up to 2.7mil in 2022, and about 7% of the world's emissions.
"Cumulative CO2 emissions (1850-2021)" A bar graph ordered by billion tonnes of CO2 for each country. The USA is in the lead, at around 425 bil (or over 500bil if you include "Land use, forestry"). Next is China, at just under 250bil (just under 300 including "Land use, forestry").

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks | US EPA
The national greenhouse gas inventory is developed each year to track trends in U.S. emissions and removals. Find emissions by source, economic sector and greenhouse gas.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-06-07 16:48:13

The fucking gall..
#CongestionPricing

Among the key planned investments is the MTA’s focus on expanding transit accessibility for people with disabilities, following a 2022 settlement of class-action lawsuits that requires 95% of all subway and Staten Island Railway stations be equipped with elevators or ramps by 2055. “Governor Hochul proudly claimed credit for the settlement,” a group comprised of five disability-rights groups said in a statement Thursday. “We need those elevators and other essential transit projects to move f…

Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Pause Leaves MTA’s Grand Ambitions in Shambles
From the Second Avenue Subway to signal overhauls to legally mandated accessibility upgrades, without money from the new Manhattan tolls — and no viable ‘Plan B’ — the entire system may be stalled.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-06-12 21:19:57

lmao this is great gothamist.com/news/watch-gov-h