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Care to cite your numbers? CSS studied the outer boroughs and found roughly 4% driving into Manhattan versus 57% taking transit, with a 50:1 ratio of low incom
by acdha 2y ago
Care to cite your numbers?
CSS studied the outer boroughs and found roughly 4% driving into Manhattan versus 57% taking transit, with a 50:1 ratio of low income workers benefiting from the congestion charge versus paying it.
https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/congestion-pricing-outer-borough-new-yorkers-poverty-data-analysis https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/congestion-pricing-outer-bo...
https://www.replicahq.com/post/whos-paying-the-literal-and-metaphorical-toll-mapping-the-congestion-pricing-commute https://www.replicahq.com/post/whos-paying-the-literal-and-m...
> Compared to those who take transit, those who drive into the zone have an average household income 11% higher ($189K vs. $171K) and median income 15% higher ($136K vs. $114K).
There are some poor people who drive in, but it’s a tiny fraction of the total and there is a generous discount for them. It’s almost certain that transit improvements paid for by the mostly affluent drivers will help a fair number of them stop driving to work, too, and losing that expense is a big financial win.
- trollbridge 2y agoMy citation is “observing people getting in and out of cars”. I suspect people carpooling are getting classified as “transit” in your data.