{"id":11032,"date":"2007-04-21T00:08:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T07:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/21\/manhatten-meet-london.html"},"modified":"2007-04-21T00:08:26","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T07:08:26","slug":"manhatten_meet_london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/21\/manhatten_meet_london.html","title":{"rendered":"Manhatten, meet London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumor has it that Manhatten is about to take a page from London’s play book and enact a “congestion tax,”<\/a> a fee to drive or park inside of the city\/district environs.<\/p>\n

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This weekend Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to introduce an $8 congestion fee for drivers who enter Manhattan below 86th Street.<\/p>\n

On the city’s traffic-clogged arteries Friday, Bloomberg was not a popular guy.  “Next thing he’s gonna charge us to cross the street,” one driver said.<\/p>\n

Complaints like those echoed among drivers who’d heard that the mayor is about to propose tolls for vehicles entering Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n

A mayoral panel has proposed charging motorists to enter Manhattan below 86th Street from 6 am to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I recall, from my last Britain expedition, very shortly after the London congestion zone was enacted, being more than a scosh dismayed by the prospect of inadvertently driving into the tax zone (and going round and round a particular roundabout to avoid it).  I recall thinking that such a thing would be unthinkable\/undoable in the States …. <\/p>\n

Still, it seems as good a tool as any to address excessive traffic and the costs it incurs.  Though, of course, opinions of actual New Yorkers are welcome …<\/p>\n

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