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In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution

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473 points Brajeshwar | 2 comments | 10 Dec 25 15:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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nalnq[dead post] ◴[10 Dec 25 15:42 UTC] No.46218992[source]▶
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rtkwe ◴[10 Dec 25 15:50 UTC] No.46219145[source]▶
The question becomes how critical is X and is there a close alternative. In this case I'd say for 95% of people yes driving is easily substituted by NYC's public transit options.
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theurerjohn3 ◴[10 Dec 25 16:02 UTC] No.46219348[source]▶
Im not sure this fits, they saw a much larger drop (18%) in heavy duty trucks entering the city, and a smaller drop (9%) in passenger cars. I am not sure the public transit options are close alternatives for heavy duty trucks.
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1. twiss ◴[10 Dec 25 16:16 UTC] No.46219585[source]▶
Do we know that those heavy duty trucks were formerly used to do things you need heavy duty trucks for? It seems more likely that 18% (or more!) of the usage was by people who think heavy duty trucks look cool and wanted to show off theirs.
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2. rtkwe ◴[10 Dec 25 18:07 UTC] No.46221160[source]▶
That's the difficulty with the Light/Medium/Heavy Duty categories. It doesn't tell you a huge amount about what the vehicle is being used for but most of them heavy duty mean commercial or utility. There are a handful of popular models that tip into the Heavy duty class and those are usually 3/4 ton pickups. Not sure how popular those are in NYC though.