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MTA’s ‘proof’ that congestion pricing is working is bogus

The MTA is touting first-week data as proof that congestion pricing is “working” — but the numbers really prove nothing, and are irrelevant to the tolls’ true purpose, which is simply to bleed the public.

Yes, the agency needs cash, but Albany didn’t want to find the money elsewhere in the near-$240 billion it spends each year, so it opted for the toll plan — and the pretense that it’s somehow good for us.

And the folks who work for the state-run MTA are obliged to support that fiction.

So the agency “proudly” announced that first-week data show that the average weekday total of vehicles entering the central business district was 7.5% lower than the estimated average for the same timeframe before the tolls kicked in.

First off, that first week was far from average: The metro area got hit by a polar vortex, with snowfall and temperatures dipping into the teens, for the coldest January in…

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