{"id":3046,"date":"2008-01-10T06:39:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T14:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/hack_up_a_one_for_congestion_pricing.html"},"modified":"2008-01-10T06:39:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T14:39:59","slug":"hack_up_a_one_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/hack_up_a_one_f.html","title":{"rendered":"Hack Up A One For Congestion Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The point of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/69243\">charging people who ride in a taxi an extra dollar<\/a> is what exactly? To make it less desireable to ride in a cab? No, the point is to lower asthma rates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hailing a cab in the city&#8217;s proposed congestion zone could add a dollar to the fare if a state commission&#8217;s recommendation is sent to Albany and the City Council for approval.<\/p>\n<p>The Congestion Mitigation Commission is set to recommend today four scenarios for the implementation of the mayor&#8217;s congestion pricing plan, which would charge drivers about $8 to enter and drive in most of Manhattan during peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>One scenario would charge taxi passengers $1 for trips that originate below 60th Street.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point of charging people who ride in a taxi an extra dollar is what exactly? To make it less desireable to ride in a cab? No, the point is to lower asthma rates: Hailing a cab in the city&#8217;s proposed congestion zone could add a dollar to the fare if a state commission&#8217;s recommendation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}