Congestion Pricing in New York, a New Mayor in Chicago

Published: April 17, 2019, 11:39 a.m.

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Nicole Gelinas and Aaron Renn join Seth Barron to discuss recent developments in New York and Chicago.

In the first week of April, both cities marked milestones: Manhattan got the nation\'s first congestion-pricing plan, courtesy of the state legislature, while Chicago elected its first black woman as mayor.

New York City\'s transit system badly needs improvement, but Gelinas argues that this congestion-pricing plan is effectively a state money grab. Meantime, Mayor-Elect Lori Lightfoot is a political outsider, but Renn writes that she has an opportunity to change the "Chicago Way" of doing business.

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