City’s poor stand to benefit the most from congestion pricing
In a comment on my latest on congestion pricing, a reader employs a favorite argument of the anti-congestion pricing crowd: “It’s not a coincidence that the Mayor is a billionaire making the city streets more business friendly while kicking out lower income constituents.” I’ve disputed this claim in the past, and today, I have help from another writer. Melissa Mark-Viverito, a pro-CP member of the City Council, explains how congestion pricing helps the city’s poor by providing for better public transit and healthier air. [Metro New York]
I just dropped a comment on the earlier thread. Nothing in this debate gets under my skin more than the false populism espoused against CP. It especially infuriates to see it coming from members of my own party. Dishonest, Rovian hackery.
Good fighting, Ben.