congestion pricing

[kuhn-jes-chuhn prahys-ing]

noun

1. a policy of reducing excessive traffic by charging motorists a fee to drive a private vehicle into a city center or on busy roads, especially during rush hour.

Example Sentences

The motivations for this are varied: Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy can’t stop talking about how afraid he is of the subway, because this fearmongering supports his department’s attempt to strip away New York’s congestion pricing authority.

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Tens of thousands of full-time ride-hail drivers will struggle with auto debt, while cities try to wield congestion pricing against an adversary with little obligation to share data and considerable power to withhold service for leverage.

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New York has generated money for mass transit with congestion pricing.

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Wednesday’s announcement that Trump intends to make good on his promise to end New York City’s congestion pricing was an example of this.

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With its compendium of Trump’s previous social media promises to “kill” congestion pricing and otherwise ignore environmental law, the 51-page brief implies that the administration made a decision first and came up with a justification second.

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