{"id":39296,"date":"2025-02-28T22:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39296"},"modified":"2025-02-28T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:40:41","slug":"memo-to-the-president-manhattan-economy-improving-thanks-to-congestion-pricing-streetsblog-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39296","title":{"rendered":"Memo to the President: Manhattan Economy Improving, Thanks to Congestion Pricing &#8211; Streetsblog New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Congestion-pricing-cameras-Colon-with-gold-coins-and-trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"127\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Lower Manhattan&#8217;s economy has gotten an almost billion-dollar boost in just the first month of congestion pricing&#8217;s existence, the MTA said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2025\/02\/27\/memo-to-the-president-manhattan-economy-improving-thanks-to-congestion-pricing\">Memo to the President: Manhattan Economy Improving, Thanks to Congestion Pricing &#8211; Streetsblog New York City<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is only two months in, but experts say it&#8217;s extremely difficult to argue that congestion pricing is hurting the economy, given that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/transportation\/congestion-pricing-zone-business-foot-traffic\" target=\"_blank\">foot traffic is also higher<\/a>\u00a0year-over-year in Lower Manhattan, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2025\/02\/05\/wind-in-their-sales-congestion-pricing-is-no-toll-on-the-broadway-box-office\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a>\u00a0has had higher year-over-year attendance and revenue.<br><br>&#8220;Congestion pricing has not harmed the institutions that are in the zone,&#8221; said Weinberger. &#8220;People are continuing to come in, and in higher numbers than they have been. All that is trending upward.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-1024x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39299\" width=\"657\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-1024x339.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-768x255.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-675x224.png 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12.png 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Manhattan&#8217;s economy has gotten an almost billion-dollar boost in just the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[838,400,1102,592],"class_list":["post-39296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-nyc","tag-taxes","tag-tfg","tag-traffic","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39300,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39296\/revisions\/39300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}