It is a race against time that has begun to be implemented municipal tax In the’ central New York just before the Donald Trump at the White House which is very much against it.
To reduce pollution, Manhattan’s famous traffic jams and revive its subway, New York promises to charge drivers in the center of their city from January. Encouragement from New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, who wants to pull the rug out from under the president-elect who, once in the White House, can block it because the main administration is the project must be verified.
Although this city tax is a real sea serpent of New York political life that was first launched by former mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2007, mayors and State governors could not New York has since been replaced.
While it was to come into effect in June, the governor of New York passed it at the last minute as the presidential election approached. A face denounced by environmentalists and interpreted as a desire to free voters before the election.
“We are going to open our streets”
After this news, Donald Trump, a native of New York, quickly confirmed his “strong opposition” to the project that will “hurt workers, families and businesses,” he said in an interview with the conservative tabloid New YorkPost. In addition, a group of elected Republicans from New York in the House of Representatives called on Donald Trump to immediately “put an end once and for all to this extraordinary traffic drainage operation.”
Elected officials who have received a lot of support even though the “Big Apple” is one of the most expensive megacities in the world and which, like the rest of the United States, has already suffered high inflation after come out of covid.
To make this fee more acceptable, Kathy Hochul presented a version in full water form with a rate of $9 per day and no longer $15 for vehicles entering the center of Manhattan Island.
“We will clean up our streets, reduce pollution and improve public transportation for millions of New Yorkers,” she promised at a press conference, citing the examples of European citieslike London or Milan, which have already implemented such projects.
According to her, almost 700,000 vehicles circulate every day, at an average of 11 km / h, in the area affected by this tax, from 60th Street to the south of Manhattan, in a horn dinner and police, fire or ambulance sirens. .
In addition to the fact that this tax is intended to reduce air pollution and traffic, it would ultimately bring in $15 billion to upgrade New York’s aging and aging subway system. in financing large deficits.
2024-11-15 07:37:00
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