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I concur. The amount, like certain Scandinavian speeding tickets, should go up with income. A billionaire living in CT shouldn’t pay the same as a plumber livin
by voisin 3y ago
I concur. The amount, like certain Scandinavian speeding tickets, should go up with income. A billionaire living in CT shouldn’t pay the same as a plumber living in an outer borough. Also, why not have a different cost between EV and ICE vehicle, as the externalities in terms of air quality differ markedly.
- nayuki 3y agoWhen it comes to air quality, EVs still generate tire dust.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoProbably not very much at ~15 mph, which is about as fast as traffic can get in lower manhattan.
- voisin 3y agoWhat portion of air quality impact from vehicles is due to tire dust versus exhaust fumes?
- IncreasePosts 3y agoIf you provide a low cost for poorer people to drive in, then more poorer people might start driving in since traffic will be better, which negates the purpose of the congestion zone.
- nayuki 3y agoThat's an interesting angle. And then poorer people will host taxi services for richer people. Oops, cars are fungible, which means charging based on the user's income will not work.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoRight, the best you could do would be to base it off of the car model associated with the license plate. But then you might just get people driving their old beaters into the city, which would have worse emissions than their newer cars and be worse for everyone who is near them on the street.
- lxgr 3y agoThis would be incredibly hard to enforce, though. How would you properly tax a billionaire being driven by a minimum-wage earning driver, for example? How would the MTA get salary data for people commuting in from out of state, etc.
- ametrau 3y agoSomething that people don’t understand is that even if a law doesn’t work 100%, it can still be effective. In this case, make it self reported with random audits. Problem solved.
- lxgr 3y agoLike asking people for their W-2 in the Holland tunnel? And who do you ask – the driver, the car's owner, the entity paying for the lease, the passenger, or all of them? I agree, but I think this one would create incredible administrative overhead and still not even get close to 100%.
- voisin 3y agoHow about to use the congestion zone you need a transponder which you register for, and annually you update your information in the registration portal?