Thanks for the reply! > induced demand is at play here Pretty sure it's actually pent-up demand, not induced demand. It's clear NY needs more ways for people

Thanks for the reply! > induced demand is at play here Pretty sure it's actually pent-up demand, not induced demand. It's clear NY needs more ways for people to get through Manhattan without going into Manhattan and troubling the residents. Even mass transit isn't good - for example to get from Bay Ridge to New Jersey airport, you need to go through Manhattan. The current design of NY runs everything through Manhattan, with a pretty self explanatory result. > to incentivize drivers off of city streets and onto highways So don't people already do that because highways are faster? I have an issue with the goal of getting traffic away from one place by just making life worse for people. Just not a nice thing to do. If you want to change incentive make things better and people will automatically change. Basically my point is: Instead of adding a Congestion Charge to try to keep people away from Manhattan, work on roads - and transit! - that lets people avoid it.