The app-based for-hire vehicles account for 43.9% of Midtown Manhattan traffic, or more than either cabs or personal vehicles, according to research by Lucius Riccio, a Stern Business School adjunc…
The city’s proposed congestion toll should first target the “real” cause of gridlock — Uber and Lyft, according to a study by a former Big Apple transportation commissioner.
“The largest share of the vehicles on our streets are these for-hire vehicles that pay nothing to be on our streets,” he told The Post on Tuesday. For his study, Ricco based his congestion results on 90 short videos he shot of daytime traffic at several Midtown intersections in October and November, tallying up each vehicle type he observed.
“The people who are advocates for congestion pricing did not speak up at all when 100,000 for-hire vehicles — Uber, Lyft, etc. — were allowed for almost nothing, no charge, to fill up our streets,” Riccio said.Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images But Schaller cautioned against charging them the congestion fee while exempting taxis, even at the start. Doing so would simply push customers to yellow cabs and not cut traffic, he said.
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