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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:32PM (#44332730)
> Are there any measures that show any downside to this?

The opposition to Manhattan’s congestion pricing has a curious tendency to be inversely correlated with how frequently that person is in Manhattan.

At this point I think it’s just another proxy for rural voters’ rage at liberal cities.

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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by taeric on Friday June 20, 2025 @07:08PM (#44332951)
I fully subscribe to this view. The obsession with people hating all things California is borderline insane, at this point.

I probably too fully subscribe to this view. Seems a lot of "western" things that people love to complain about have been over indexed on. A lot are things that do need to get better, but when I hear people talk about how "actually, the US has been fascist for some time," I just... What?!

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