‘Trumping’ NYC Traffic: The Fight for NYC’s Roads

The city that never sleeps is also the second city with the worst traffic in the world right behind Istanbul. New York City was ranked the worst city for traffic congestion for the second year in a row.
Manhattan being the borough where most of the traffic issues stem from. On Tuesday February 4, around 497,966 vehicles were accounted for in the city. Dreading traffic is a universal New Yorker experience. Reducing the overbearing traffic issue has always been something in the works and being optimized constantly. President Donald Trump had his administration order a stop on congestion pricing tolls in New York City. A nine-dollar toll on cars is imposed through a license reader. Most of these tolls are for vehicles entering Manhattan from South of Central Park on weekdays.

Though taxpayers’ money does go out to the roads we drive on and still get tolled for it. Should tolls be lowered or terminated completely. Should we continue to fund the MTA? Should the money go to highways? This passed Tuesday 2.19, Trump took to social media with “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York is SAVED.” Shortly after the announcement, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority filed a federal lawsuit to keep congestion pricing alive. Showing its effectiveness decreased congestion
by 9%. Gov. Kathy Hochul says the tolls will continue. The dispute is fluid and still being
held up in court. Hochul and the MTA are working on the city’s future and its controversial congestion pricing plan.