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Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

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437 points Vinnl | 1 comments | 13 May 25 10:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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Hanschri ◴[13 May 25 16:13 UTC] No.43974525[source]▶
Climate Town has an entertaining and informative video on this topic from last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFBn0r53uQ
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toomuchtodo ◴[14 May 25 15:10 UTC] No.43985487[source]▶
Great comment from that video: "When cars were banned from Central Park drivers whined and now we can't imagine it any other way." Everything is impossible until it is done.
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1. epistasis ◴[14 May 25 21:37 UTC] No.43989484[source]▶
I see this with new apartment buildings in my small, NIMBY-dominated town.

Building proposed: "It will be too expensive! We need housing for those making 10% of median income, not for those making the median income!"

Building mid-construction: "This building is unbelievably ugly! How could we let this happen to our town?!"

Building completed: "This building is completely vacant! Why did we allow this to be constructed? It's just proof we should never build anything again, it's not needed."

18 months later, building fully occupied, lots of happy residents with mixed incomes: Silence, because they are too busy complaining about all the other buildings.