Adi Talwar
Friday evening traffic at the intersection of 42nd Street and 6th Avenues in Manhattan. Turns across crosswalks are where the dangers of a car-pedestrian encounter are high. A city law set out to address that. but enforcement has been lackluster.
“With years of work, riders pried congestion pricing from a recalcitrant Albany. We intend to see the program fully and fairly rolled out next year. When congestion pricing is implemented, drivers will pay their equitable share to access the most heavily trafficked and transit adjacent neighborhoods in the United States.”
De Blasio, who has championed housing rights, public education, and access to services for New Yorkers of any immigration status, now needs to tackle the inequity of two million daily bus riders crawling through snarled traffic.
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