{"id":324816,"date":"2026-08-19T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324816\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:57:33","slug":"hochuls-congestion-pricing-scam-has-only-one-success-left-gouging-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324816\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul’s congestion pricing scam has only one ‘success’ left: Gouging drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Kathy Hochul considers her congestion-pricing scheme a huge success, but the city Health Department just exposed the scam by blowing up one of the main supposed benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeasured pollution levels were not significantly different because of congestion pricing,\u201d it reported Friday.<\/p>\n

Worse, the activists at South Bronx Unite have published preliminary data<\/a> suggesting that congestion pricing has worsened air quality in their neighborhood, with added traffic as trucks etc. avoid the tolls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what the federal environmental review predicted<\/a> long before Hochul imposed the $9 (and rising!) tolls\u2014 i.e. that overall traffic wouldn\u2019t drop, but only shift from the zone\u2019s ritzy Manhattan nabes into rougher outer-borough areas.<\/p>\n

The only \u201cgood\u201d it really did was allow Hochul to impose a new tax (under another name) to bail out the MTA without upsetting any of the special interests that feed off the agency \u2014 while also winning points with elite car-hating donors.<\/p>\n

Of course she\u2019s happy to call it a big \u201csuccess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul considers her congestion-pricing scheme a huge success, but the city Health Department just exposed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,748,304,426,141,9,24,63,299,13926,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-324816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-congestion-pricing","tag-editorial","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-pollution","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}