Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe

NOVEMBER twentieth marks the primary “Gridlock Alert” day of New York Metropolis’s vacation season. That is the official designation for town’s busiest site visitors days of the yr. However site visitors is unhealthy most days, with greater than 900,000 automobiles coming into Manhattan’s central enterprise district. INRIX, a traffic-data agency, discovered that New York Metropolis leads the world in city site visitors congestion among the many cities scored, with the common driver stationary for 101 hours a yr. After years of false begins, together with a cowardly pre-election pause by Kathy Hochul, New York’s Democratic governor, congestion pricing has the inexperienced gentle.