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Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

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437 points Vinnl | 3 comments | 13 May 25 10:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.624s | source
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explodes ◴[14 May 25 13:18 UTC] No.43984193[source]▶
Wouldn't it be nice if policy changes were accompanied by an A/B testing plan to evaluate their impact? I have always thought so. I have also seen a major pitfall of A/B testing that real humans can hand-pick and slice data to make it sound as positive or negative as wanted. Nonetheless, the more data the better.
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sc68cal ◴[14 May 25 14:53 UTC] No.43985261[source]▶
We already had A/B testing of congestion pricing. The A test was without congestion pricing in NYC, and has been tested for decades.
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1. tonymet ◴[14 May 25 23:09 UTC] No.43990138[source]▶
you haven't described the observations or the sample
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2. ericpauley ◴[15 May 25 00:24 UTC] No.43990587[source]▶
TFA describes this extensively. The observations are traffic speed, bus timeliness, and over a dozen other metrics. The samples are sub-areas of NYC.
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3. tonymet ◴[15 May 25 04:50 UTC] No.43991948[source]▶
Anything negative ?