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Are you kidding me?

President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to New York City’s congestion pricing system, which thins traffic and funds mass transit by imposing high tolls on drivers entering some parts of Manhattan.

Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most passenger cars entering Manhattan neighborhoods south of Central Park. In its early days, transit officials say the toll has brought modest but measurable traffic reductions.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How the FUCK has he the authority to do that?

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (9 children)

What authority do the feds have here? More nonsense to demoralize and distract.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You know....I kinda think it's time we tell him to pound sand. Fucking seriously, who's going to enforce it? The defunded letter agencies?

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny how they run on this mythic yesteryear of the fifties... yet neglect the notion that the fifties were funded by the highest wealth taxes, street cars were everywhere, and there were MASSIVE public works projects EVERYWHERE.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago

States rights

To bow to our Republican monarch

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