No Way In Hell Yall NY'ers Didn't See That Trump Eliminated Congestion Pricing In Manhattan

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

I just passed through Downtown Manhattan.

That traffic was

 

[Scaaar]

I don't live in NY so I don't have a dog in the fight. But isn't this a state issue? How is the Fed going to try to regulate something like this lol. Plus I thought the R's whole schtick was to stop fed overreach and protect states rights

 

[Higher Tech]

No thread? Oh, we only do victim threads around here...I forgot. There is no way any poster from NY city isn't happy about this...

"The Trump administration is moving to block New York City’s congestion pricing program, reversing a federal approval granted last year and setting up a legal showdown over the tolling initiative.

The Federal Highway Administration plans to withdraw its agreement with the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which allowed the agency to impose tolls on drivers entering some of Manhattan’s busiest streets, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement on Wednesday. The decision will likely halt the program, which began operating just last month.

“New York State’s congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners,” Duffy said in a statement. “Every American should be able to access New York City regardless of their economic means. It shouldn’t be reserved for an elite few.”"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/trump-to-halt-ny-congestion-pricing-by-pulling-federal-approval

Do you live in NYC?

 

[Higher Tech]

I don't live in NY so I don't have a dog in the fight. But isn't this a state issue? How is the Fed going to try to regulate something like this lol. Plus I thought the R's whole schtick was to stop fed overreach and protect states rights

This is what I was thinking too, but it seems NYC needed federal approval from the Federal Highway Administration and they are rescinding that permission.

It is ironic, coming from the party that screams about states' rights. I was reading Hochul's statement, and it seems that the positives outweigh the perceived negatives, but I'd have to ask a NY'er.

 

[Dorian Breh]

Congestion pricing was awesome. Safe streets. Manhattan is for pedestrians.

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

I don't live in NY so I don't have a dog in the fight. But isn't this a state issue? How is the Fed going to try to regulate something like this lol. Plus I thought the R's whole schtick was to stop fed overreach and protect states rights

The legal argument the republicans are using that this isn’t about congestion pricing but is actually a toll. Any toll that is placed on a road that is directed from an interstate requires federal signoff. Since NYC never asked for federal approval, this isn’t legal

 

[Higher Tech]

The legal argument the republicans are using that this isn’t about congestion pricing but is actually a toll. Any toll that is placed on a road that is directed from an interstate requires federal signoff. Since NYC never asked for federal approval, this isn’t legal

They requested and it was approved. The Trump admin is revoking the permission according to this article.

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5154242-hochul-trump-congestion-pricing-court/

 

[Wargames]

Sounds like the Governor told Trump he could suck her dikk.

 

[Wargames]

She basically told him fukk you

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Yeah I know, everybody is rich and can afford to put out more than they were already putting out to live...

No no you got it twisted if the other thread is to be believed

WE'RE broke and that's the reason why we don't want Congestion Pricing

But according the shythead "Progressives" on Twitter and Bluesky (aka the Liberal echo chamber social media platform) only "the rich" drive in NYC

 

[ExodusNirvana]

you pay for the train

Exactly

No one is paying for the train or the bus and then these motherfukkers out here championing shythead politicians telling us it should be free and neglecting to say who is gonna pay for it

Then out here carrying water for Kathy Hochul of all people

WHO RAISED YOU nikkaS MAN??

 

[Wargames]

you pay for the train

Occasionally

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

No thread? Oh, we only do victim threads around here.

I thought I was the only one realizing this.

 

[NoCones]

Any black person who bytches about "victim complex" is usually a sociopath. Don't even have be race related. Just a genuine lack of empathy and consideration of others.

Another insecure negro man with a victim complex

Stop being a victim, put the snack cakes down and get your ass in the gym

Stop with the victim complex. The movie was ok for what it was. Like a lot of movies released during the summer.

 

[Canon]

Breh said fukk the civil rights violations he glazing trump on the coli today

Flagrant c00ning