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Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

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437 points Vinnl | 2 comments | 13 May 25 10:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | 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. mcmoor ◴[15 May 25 01:36 UTC] No.43990982[source]▶
The opposite is also true. We can descend slowly into dystopia and we forget how good it can actually be.
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2. SchemaLoad ◴[15 May 25 02:12 UTC] No.43991193[source]▶
That was the invention of the car. Public spaces used to be massively better and people went out and socialized more.

And now people have forgotten that almost all the problems cars solve today are problems caused by cars in the first place.