[Spooky23]

Please. I grew up in Manhattan and Queens and have spent 75% of my life there. It was even more congested in the 80s and 90s.

The big innovation of congestion pricing is that it demonstrates is that miserable Long Islanders would rather endure their way through Manhattan than pay the toll and the trip across the Verrazano or Throgs Neck.

End of the day, NYC is changing whether you like it or not. The people living there want a voice in it, after being stuck behind the wants and desires of New Jersey and Long Island. As the populations of office workers continues to shrink, so too will prioritization of their needs.