The Issue: Complaints from New Yorkers about the real impacts of congestion pricing in New York City.

The Post is right: Congestion pricing has not worked in the Big Apple, and traffic and retail prices are up (“That’s a toll lotta bull, Kat,” Dec. 4).

What’s going to happen if the daytime congestion price for cars goes up to $15? I can only imagine what the cost will be for commercial vehicles that bring us our food and necessities.

John Giriat

The Bronx

Anyone driving or taking a cab down Fifth Avenue can see that there’s more congestion than ever.

Double-parked trucks and the bus lane leave only one lane open for cars. You’re lucky if you get to go one block before the light changes. This whole idea of a congestion fee is totally insane.

Melanie Coronetz

Manhattan

One only needs to look at the traffic going over the Ed Koch Bridge in the morning hours to realize that none of these drivers are going for joy rides in the city. These are hard working, law-abiding citizens who are easy marks for the government scam of congestion pricing.

One can also walk up to the Queensboro Plaza subway station and watch as numerous people jump the turnstiles. These are the people our governor and progressive politicians are protecting.

The fare beaters need to pay their share to ride the subway, and the hardworking vehicle drivers need to be able to drive freely and not be punished as they earn an honest living.

William Carroll

Woodside

As Capt. Louis said to Rick in “Casablanca”: “I am shocked, shocked” that congestion pricing isn’t working.

Thanks to Gov. Hochul, the only thing that congestion pricing has done is raise prices for the average consumer.

I hope that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is successful in the legal challenge to strike down this policy. It’s disheartening when voters suffer the consequences of frivolous laws.

James F. Marchese

West Islip

Who else sees the insanity of charging middle-class suburban and outer-borough residents a congestion fee to discourage them from driving into the city, while the city smooths the way for billionaire developers to plop 70-story buildings in the middle of some of our most desirable and already congested residential neighborhoods?

D. M. Markowitz

Schenectady

The Issue: A Holocaust survivor barred from speaking at a middle school due to his pro-Israel views.

The decision by Principal Arin Rusch to prevent Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann from speaking at MS 447 isn’t an isolated gaffe — it’s just another instance of her putting ideology over educational responsibility (“H’caust speaker ‘censor,’ ” Dec. 4).

To avoid an uncomfortable political discussion, she censored a primary historical source. This failure is so profound, it’s practically a textbook.

Todd L. Pittinsky

Port Jefferson

I find it appalling that a principal would deprive her students of the chance to learn history firsthand from someone who actually experienced it. Why? Because he supports a country currently defending itself from total annihilation by a brutal enemy.

If Arin Rusch is an example of leadership in New York City public schools, God help us.

Marsha Motzen

Englewood, NJ

My father, a Schindler’s list Holocaust survivor who spent his life talking to students and teachers from elementary school through college, was welcomed everywhere.

What has happened to our education system that a 85-year-old Holocaust survivor is told he’s not a good fit to speak at a middle school? Rusch’s egregious and blatantly antisemitic decision should be grounds for immediate dismissal.

Betty Schwartz

Livingston, NJ

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