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Congestion pricing is an admission that the fuel taxes are being used for other purposes than roads.
by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Congestion pricing is an admission that the fuel taxes are being used for other purposes than roads.
- vidro3 8y agoor that the taxes are far too low to support the cost of road maintainance
- mshkreli 8y agoDoubtful - we're talking about New York, after all.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoNew York's problem is that its fuel consumption has been flat for 50 years because of increasing fuel efficiency and low population growth. Meanwhile, everything else is more expensive to maintain so it must make up the difference with other funding sources or higher taxes. The latter is is difficult political issue when they are already near the top for state fuel taxation.
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoI don't think fuel taxes are enough to pay for road maintenance anywhere in the US. It's always supplemented by some amount of general fund dollars.
- gipp 8y agoRoad maintenance and expansion is not really the point. It's not like midtown has a bunch of extra room to build new roads. It's more of an admission that eventually you're just gonna bump into hard physical constraints that no amount of money in the world is gonna help you get past.
- francisofascii 8y agoIt is more an admission that fuel taxes are way too low to make any meaningful difference in changing behavior.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoFollowing up on my own post: as usual, anything that goes against the HN hive mind gets down voted. Even if obviously correct... see : https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/nys-leaky-gas-taxes/ https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/nys-leaky-gas-taxe...