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NYC is now the first city in the US with congestion pricing.

The new tolling scheme that charges people $9 to drive below 60th Street in Manhattan went live at 12:00:01AM on Sunday. New York joins London, Singapore, Milan, and other global cities to force drivers to shoulder some of the burden in paying for good public transportation. I wrote about how congestion pricing can save cities from robot-powered gridlock back in 2019 — check it out.

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