Congestion pricing, it emerges, has a positive educational outcome:
NYCSBUS filed a legal brief Wednesday in support of the congestion pricing program, which is under siege by the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation. The first-in-the-nation toll is slated to bring $1 billion per year to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and reduce overall traffic congestion by charging passenger vehicles a $9 daily toll to enter the “Central Business District” — Manhattan below 60th Street.
Buses have been running faster since the congestion pricing toll began in early 2025, NYCSBUS noted. The effects could have a big impact in the classroom, with NYCSBUS boasting that some Manhattan students are now spending an average of about 30 minutes more per week in school.
“Indeed, since the program was implemented, students who ride NYCSBUS buses to schools in the [Central Business District] have gained, on average, approximately half an hour of additional time at school per week that otherwise would have been spent idling in traffic on a school bus,” the company claims in the 17-page amicus brief.
Thus the Trump administration attack on NYC congestion pricing is also another way in which they are undermining education.
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