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Those 'things' and doctors are still there, and if they had raised their prices by ten bucks a visit, these people wouldn't blink an eye.
It's remarkable to me the mental gymnastics people will go through to justify equally distributing costs of public infrastructure while opposing equally distributing costs of public healthcare. Opinion incongruity can be infuriating at times.
Anecdotally, I've got some friends on the other side of the river that said much the same and ended up switching to coming into the city via transit, as intended.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd heard often enough the transit was previously unreliable as far as timing goes. I imagine that presumption has gone quite the way to dissuading people from taking it. Now though, seems like everything is running rather smoothly with the decreased traffic load.
I'm looking forward to see what the transit service is able to do with the funds over the next few years. I hope some of it ends up in the pockets of the operators.
Buses are unreliable, because they get caught in traffic. Trains maybe don't run as often as we'd like them to, especially at night and on weekends, but my friends and I can rely on them, and they hit most of our frequent destinations anyway.
It's also worth noting that congestion pricing only affects one part of Manhattan. It doesn't affect transit either. They're just whinny privileged carbrains, the majority of NYers live on transit