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Council member Banks says congestion pricing unfairly burdens working families and small businesses
2119122 · January 8, 2025
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Summary
Council member Banks opposed the recently implemented congestion pricing and interborough toll plan at the Jan. 8 meeting, calling it an unfair tax on working- and middle-class New Yorkers and warning it could worsen congestion in outer-borough neighborhoods.
Council member Banks used the Jan. 8 charter meeting to criticize the city’s recently implemented congestion pricing and interborough toll plan, saying it imposes “another tax on a working and middle class New Yorker.”
Banks argued that the tolls…
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