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Streetsblog takes on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to charge a toll to everyone driving into downtown NYC:
http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/07/30/2250/By now we're all familiar with the litany of complaints about the City's new traffic control plan: It's an unfair and burdensome new tax; it's going to kill retail business and hurt the little guy; and most of all, it's just plain "un-American."
That, of course, is what critics are saying about congestion pricing in New York City in 2007.
It turns out that the critics said the exact same things about new-fangled contraptions called Park-o-Meters when they were introduced in urban centers in the early 1930s.
