New York City's congestion pricing plan aims to ease traffic and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet it raises concerns about potential air quality issues in outer areas, particularly the South Bronx. Activists point to preliminary data suggesting increased traffic and worsening conditions, with afternoon travel times on Bronx highways rising by 9% since tolling began. While it's early to assess congestion impacts definitively, local residents and groups are wary of an adverse effect on their already polluted air.
Local activists, like Mychal Johnson, are paying attention. You want to reduce congestion, please do it here, do it where we're breathing toxic air.
Early data from Inrix, a transportation analytics firm, showed that afternoon travel times on major highways and expressways in the Bronx had increased by 9 percent.
It's still too early to draw any conclusions about traffic in the South Bronx and its link to congestion pricing.
But if motorists avoid the tolls leading into Manhattan via detours, other areas in the metropolitan region could see their air quality deteriorate.
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