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Do you understand how traffic will affect your freight deliveries with the new congestion pricing in New York City? Big changes are underway. Learn all the inside tips in this blog article. #congestionpricingNYC #freightdelivery #trafficimpact #logisticsmanagement #shippingindustry #NYCtrucking #urbanlogistics #interceptlogistics

Today is exactly 90 days since Gov. Hochul defunded the MTA by $16.5 billion with her congestion pricing "pause" — and she still has no plan to fix it. (“Trust Me” is not a plan.) In the time since congestion pricing was set to begin, Gov. Hochul’s pause has spewed an additional 457,000 tons of carbon into our air, cost New Yorkers a total of 2.6 million hours in traffic thanks to the nearly 10 million vehicles, more than 150,000 each day, that otherwise wouldn’t have crossed into the congestion relief zone, and perhaps most alarmingly: defunded over $175 million from our transit system. https://lnkd.in/eJq5ec76

The NYC congestion pricing plan is back on the table post-election. This summer, the MTA proposed tolls for all vehicles entering lower Manhattan to reduce congestion and generate funds for transit improvements. Although unpopular with NYC suburban commuters, the plan’s objective is clear: reduce emissions and bolster the city’s transportation infrastructure. Governor Hochul postponed the plan until after the election and has since proposed a reduced $9 toll for passenger cars. However, commercial trucking companies, which lack a public transit alternative, face significant challenges as they absorb high costs without flexibility. Federal approval is pending, and its decision could shape congestion pricing for years to come. #NYCTraffic #CongestionPricing #TransportationPolicy #CommercialTrucking https://ow.ly/S7Fz50U6AAX

New York City has approved a $15 congestion toll for drivers entering Manhattan's busiest area. The plan, expected to start in June, aims to reduce traffic and fund transportation improvements. Tolls will vary based on vehicle type and time of day. This makes New York the first city in the United States to impose congestion tolls. Critics argue it will burden workers and increase prices. #NYCTraffic #CongestionTolls #NYCTolls #CongestionPricing #TransportationImprovements https://brev.is/X6wKS

New York congestion pricing looks set to start at the beginning of 2025. Let's hope the first week of January proves as auspicious a start date as it did for Stockholm nearly 20 years earlier. And that $9 proves sufficient to produce noticeable benefits in traffic congestion while meeting the genuine concerns about the cost of living. Governor Hochul says it will still net the $15bn needed for subway upgrades, but this is a good illustration that building a congestion pricing policy mostly around raising revenue - while extremely helpful for getting critical buy-in - creates a further tension in an already complex political and evidence-based calculation around prices. https://lnkd.in/dHddPW7i

New York City was going to implement congestion tolls for all traffic entering lower Manhattan. Trucks would expect to pay $24 to $36 for most hours of the day. And then... Nothing happened! The MTA's June 30 implementation date was cancelled, and the toll program postponed indefinitely. Does this mean congestion tolls are cancelled forever? No; it is still on the table. Why were the tolls postponed? The program wasn't going to be very helpful. Yes, the tolls would incentivize commuters to take public transit over passenger vehicles—and, yes, it would help immensely in funding public transit improvements. But the tolls against commercial vehicles would simply push increased operational costs onto consumers, ultimately worsening the city's cost of living crisis. Plus, New York City's public transit is still comparatively bad. London or Singapore, the major metropolitan centers currently using congestion tolls, have significantly more robust transit infrastructure. NYC's program feels like a cart-before-the-horse situation. Read more on FleetOwner, featuring expertise from Trimble Maps's Rishi Mehra: https://lnkd.in/g_efKUqg

Good to see New York may still get its congestion pricing implemented. The charge has been reduced to $9 and faces a hurdle with some funding coming from the feds and the new administration unlikely to support it. ‘traffic is bad most days, with more than 900,000 cars entering Manhattan’s central business district. INRIX, a traffic-data firm, found that New York City leads the world in urban traffic congestion among the cities scored, with the average driver stationary for 101 hours a year.’ Hopefully this can be implemented soon and results can demonstrate its effect. Article - Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe https://lnkd.in/gVZ_BbYE from The Economist

#NewYorkCity is poised to launch the first #congestion pricing plan to reduce traffic in a major #US metropolitan area. Like many journeys in the #BigApple, this one has been punctuated by delays. Once the system starts up, however, it’s expected to significantly reduce gridlock in #Manhattan and generate billions of dollars to improve #publictransit citywide. The basic idea is simple. To enter the Congestion Relief Zone, which covers Manhattan south of 60th Street, large trucks will pay $36, small trucks $24, passenger vehicles $15 and motorcycles $7.50. Ride-share vehicles and taxis will pay $2.50 and $1.25, respectively. Peak hours run from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends; overnight tolls are discounted by 75%. Evidence from cities around the world shows that charging motorists fees for driving into city centers during busy periods is a rarity in urban public policy: a measure that works and is cost-effective. Congestion pricing has succeeded in cities including #London, #Singapore and #Stockholm, where it has eased traffic, sped up travel times, reduced #pollution and provided funds for public transportation and infrastructure investments. As an urban policy scholar, I’m looking forward to seeing New York’s plan go into effect. There may well be surprises and adjustments as officials see how it works in practice. But given the heavy costs that traffic imposes on #publichealth and #productivity, I’m encouraged to see a major U.S. city finally test this approach. Nudging drivers Congestion pricing is a response to externalities – costs or benefits that are generated by one party but incurred by another. Clogged city streets and #airpollution are externalities created by urban car users, many of whom live outside the city. This concept has been around for some time. #British economist Arthur Pigou discussed it as early as 1920 as part of his attempt to remedy the suboptimal workings of the market system. In Pigou’s view, taxing harmful activities would discourage people from engaging in them. Other thinkers took up this idea. In 1963, #Canadian economist William Vickrey, a future Nobel laureate, argued that roads were scarce resources that needed to be valued by imposing costs on users. This approach is behind behavioral economics, the policy strategy of using “nudges” that preserve choice but encourage certain actions. Congestion pricing assumes that increased prices will make people heading into #NewYork think more carefully about their travel patterns, and about alternatives to driving. Public transit receives priority Congestion pricing in a city a big as New York is no small step. The New York plan was presented to the board of the Metropolitan Transit Authority in November 2023 after years of study and a detailed environmental impact assessment, required by #federallaw. 🔻🔻🔻 Click/tap image below to see video on YouTube 🔻🔻🔻

𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: 𝐍𝐘𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐉𝐚𝐧 2025 🚗💨 New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the implementation of congestion pricing in Manhattan, set to begin on January 5, 2025. This initiative aims to reduce traffic congestion and generate funds for public transit improvements. Drivers entering Manhattan south of 60th Street during peak hours will be charged a $9 toll, with higher fees for larger vehicles and reduced rates during off-peak times. Exemptions and discounts are available for certain groups, including low-income residents and emergency vehicles. This policy marks a significant step in addressing urban congestion and enhancing New York City's transportation infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/ecKpPFwT #FleetSafety #DriverSafety #VehicleSafety #RoadSafety #SafeDriving #FleetManagement #AdvancedSafetyTech #SafetyFirst #FleetOperations #CrashPrevention #SafetyInnovation #FleetDrivers

New York's off-again, on-again congestion charge is on-again. From 5 January 2025, it will cost up to US$9 to drive a car into lower Manhattan during most hours of the day, the main change from before is that this is significantly lower than the US$15 previously proposed (which was seen as politically untenable going up to the US elections). Although it is being introduced primarily to raise revenue (at least US$1b per annum primarily to fund renewals of the subway), it ought to have a noticeable impact on traffic congestion (albeit it is quite a blunt scheme). New York's cordon scheme will be groundbreaking in the US as the first such scheme in the country of congestion charging on existing roads (not just peak pricing of an existing toll road or an HOV lane), but lower Manhattan is fairly unique. It has relatively low car mode share given the intensity of subway (including PATH), railroad and bus service, and fairly consistent levels of traffic during the day. It is much more akin to central London than any other US city. So while this should hopefully spur interest in congestion charging elsewhere in the US, it's worth noting that in the UK London has not resulted in congestion charging being implemented elsewhere in the country. Notwithstanding this, New York will be worth watching, to see the likely impact on congestion, the effects on enabling buses to operate much more efficiently, and most importantly how it is perceived by the public - those who drive, those who live and work there, those who own businesses. That will be the real test as to whether the concept gains traction in the country of the automobile. I wrote a little about it here https://lnkd.in/dt2MPU-R and https://lnkd.in/dssw5Kkk and the details of the scheme (as previously noted) are here https://lnkd.in/dcNkCMqd