[addicted]

1. The overwhelming majority of outerboro working class people are not driving in NYC.

Only about 30% of NYCers even own cars.

2. This only impacts a small part of Manhattan and for certain hours in the day. The only thing it does is encourages those who can move their travel away from peak hours to do so. This will greatly help all the people driving in as well.

3. This will greatly save many lives through reduced pollution and reduced car crashes.

4. This will help bus services etc which service far more working class people from the outer boros than private cars.

5. Congestion pricing has worked very well and been expanded everywhere it’s tried. There’s no evidence of it hurting working class people anywhere. And the parts of Manhattan this affects might be the most densely populated in terms of public transport.

[shipscode]

1. Numbers are close enough to correct

2. This is no longer true, the plan is tolling individuals driving into that area 24 hours a day, and from 5AM-9PM at the full rate.

5. Just because Manhattan has public transit doesn’t mean they’re coming from a neighborhood with accessible public transit. Converting a short drive into a 2 hour each way trip is wrong no matter how poor the person.