{"id":252188,"date":"2024-06-05T20:55:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/kathy-hochul-axes-congestion-pricing-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:16:46","slug":"kathy-hochul-axes-congestion-pricing-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/kathy-hochul-axes-congestion-pricing-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul axes congestion pricing in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">At an economic summit in Ireland last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul bragged about her state\u2019s decades-long quest to implement so-called congestion pricing in New York City. Within mere months, the extensive toll system was poised to take effect, charging cars and trucks a once-per-day fee between $15 and $36 to enter lower Manhattan \u2014 a move that, in addition to the quality-of-life benefits touted by Hochul, promised to both drastically reduce carbon emissions in one of the country\u2019s most congested regions and also provide badly needed funding for its most extensive mass transit system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">\u201cIt took a long time because people feared backlash from drivers set in their ways,\u201d she said in her speech. \u201cWe must get over that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Ultimately, however, Hochul herself couldn\u2019t seem to get over this fear. On Wednesday, the governor&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/transportation\/kathy-hochul-congestion-pricing-new-york\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an economic summit in Ireland last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul bragged about her state\u2019s decades-long quest to implement so-called congestion pricing in New York City. Within mere months, the extensive toll system was poised to take effect, charging cars and trucks a once-per-day fee between $15 and $36 to enter lower Manhattan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":252189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kathy Hochul axes congestion pricing in New York - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/transportation\/kathy-hochul-congestion-pricing-new-york\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kathy Hochul axes congestion pricing in New York\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At an economic summit in Ireland last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul bragged about her state\u2019s decades-long quest to implement so-called congestion pricing in New York City. 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