New York City has been trying for the past decade and a half to join Singapore, London, San Diego, Stockholm, and Milan as a "congestion pricing" city, where driving your car certain places at certain times will incur a fee. In New York's case, that would be a $15 fee every time one entered Manhattan below 60th street, excluding the perimeter roadways.
Intended to both raise revenue and further discourage vehicular traffic in the heart of the city, the plan was met with widespread resistance. That resistance got loud enough to scare the mandarins of the Democratic party, who reportedly worried that blowback from this plan could cost them House seats in the upcoming election. Governor Kathy Hochul, who probably also felt fear for her own job, just announced an indefinite suspension of the plan, less than 30 days before it was due to take effect.
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