Leigh Hedger

Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors.

Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city.

Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025

Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

12.05.2025 12:10 — 👍 4438    🔁 1117    💬 66    📌 108

Worst 100 days since William Henry Harrison.

29.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 522    🔁 51    💬 35    📌 3

He says while standing next to an actual incendiary device

12.03.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

20.02.2025 02:14 — 👍 77753    🔁 21201    💬 2374    📌 1688

Boss: "This is like my favorite dashboard ever!"

Delighted by the compliment. ... But now I'm sad for those going through life who've never had a favorite dashboard to squee over.

12.02.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pro tip: On Monday, remember to take for breaths and periodically or constantly seek out life-affirming stories of positivity, unlikely animal friendships, animals being derps, toddlers saying bad words, you know the drill.

19.01.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just remembered that The Muppet Show theme song contains the line “it’s time to put on makeup” and it makes me wonder what they look like without it, maybe they look normal

17.01.2025 18:28 — 👍 2948    🔁 320    💬 1    📌 0

I'm trying to write a dystopian sci Fi novel and I keep having to start over because the oligarchs keep doing worse shit than I can think of.

03.01.2025 12:47 — 👍 270    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

30.12.2024 22:15 — 👍 7159    🔁 1492    💬 115    📌 79

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

30.12.2024 00:19 — 👍 54290    🔁 10132    💬 2029    📌 1309

Media outlets? Far from perfect.

But things like the election day "did Biden drop out" search surge suggests a kneejerk let's-all-scapegoat-media misses the mark. That can't be a 107-day headline.

Naming media as the problem plays perfectly into the hands of those moving to eradicate free press.

20.12.2024 01:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

29.11.2024 19:40 — 👍 8823    🔁 2301    💬 84    📌 123