Numlock Sunday: A congestion pricing rerun in Manhattan

Photo by Veronika Galkina on Unsplash

By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.

This week, as I get a few particularly fun things lined up, I’m doing a rare Numlock Sunday rerun edition of a conversation from last year with the infrastructure journalist Aaron Gordon. He can still be found at his newsletter Book Time. I love following his work because it covers awesome stuff about cities, how people live in them, and how transportation impacts all of that.

In the autumn, we spoke about New York City’s then-upcoming attempt to implement congestion pricing, which was killed by the governor several weeks ago and has had immediate reverberations across the region. He wrote about it in his own newsletter in a barnburner of a post.

Back in September, we talked about what that would have meant for public transit, and potential changes to the New York streetscape. I think it’s a fair look at the challenges of implementing this kind of thing, but nevertheless presented the most capable a…